This box is in a datacenter and the last time I used a modem it was a Courier Dual Standard ...

So it makes little sense to have one in this case.

I have looked in ip->services->ssh and it has no restrictions on where you can connect from ? however if I try and ssh to the internal address I can see that the packets get to the routeros box but there is no response.

( After writing the reply above it occurred to me to connect to the external interface from the inside world and worked, I hadn't deleted the external interface I had bound an ip address to one of the next hop devices ( one of the redundant vvrp interfaces ) so I had stopped the routeros box knowing...

Thanks for the replies, I put the acl allowing traffic in to port 22 in the fip filters area at the top and I can see it getting hits however it does not see a service responding ( I just get timed out ). Safe mode looks useful in the future, I am more used to the cisco approach of get it working an...

After I managed to lock myself out of a router 9,000 miles away I wanted to know if there is a good way of getting routeros to respond to ssh on all interfaces. I would like o configure things so I can get a network kvm on one of the servers on the internal side and use that to reconfigure the route...

I have two routeros boxes. I would like to have a simple inner and outer firewall config: -----192.168.11.0/24---| inner box | ----87.127.83.64/29----| outer box | -----pppoe interface---------------- my pppoe currently looks something like /interface pppoe-client add add-default-route=yes disabled=...

Since upgrading my home box seems very unstable, lots of spontaneous reboots and enough bad connections that I have power cycled it a few times. [admin@catbus_home] /system> /system routerboard print routerboard: yes model: 751G-2HnD serial-number: 2F8701252CD1 current-firmware: 3.17 upgrade-firmwar...

I am using a routeros box as a firewall. I would like to load balance a web server over two systems. Can I do this with routeros ?

( The documentation for pfsense as an example is http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Inbound_Load_Balancing