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by molesza
Sat May 09, 2020 10:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: NetData realtime stats
Replies: 1
Views: 4727

Re: NetData realtime stats

I know this is an old thread but some may find this link useful for polling mikrotik router with SNMP to netdata:

https://www.who-els.co.za/2019/06/netda ... rotik.html
by molesza
Thu May 07, 2020 10:21 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: PCQ shared bandwidth EXCEPT 1 PC
Replies: 1
Views: 1294

PCQ shared bandwidth EXCEPT 1 PC

I have a great setup at the moment with PCQ where all bandwidth is shared equally from my 10M/10M connection. All is lovely. I have scoured the internet trying to find a solution to what I would like to achieve. I am happy for bandwidth to be split equally across all devices needing access to the in...
by molesza
Wed Nov 06, 2019 7:55 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router
Replies: 3
Views: 1503

Re: [Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router

I've managed to solve this myself. Here is how I did it: 1) Reset the configuartion with no default configuration 2) Create VLAN on interface ether1 3) Bridge VLAN, all ether ports and wlan, BUT NOT ETHER 1 4) Enable DHCP client on ether1 if you would like to have a management IP to get access. 5) C...
by molesza
Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:05 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router
Replies: 3
Views: 1503

Re: [Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router

I am most probably doing the wrong things here. Basically I want the router in the flat to be a wireless access point. The main mikrotik must hand out DHCP and do all the routing. The only thing I want the second mikrotik to do is to tag the packets with VLAN ID 50 so that each client on the second ...
by molesza
Wed Oct 23, 2019 12:25 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: [Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router
Replies: 3
Views: 1503

[Vlan] Internal Mikrotik router to Internet Mikrotik Router

I have two flats in my house that I provide internet too. I have recently started using Vlans to seperate and manage the traffic. I have a wireless access point that can tag packets with a VLAN ID and have successfully got the internet connected mikrotik to hand out DHCP to that flat. The second fla...
by molesza
Tue Dec 06, 2016 6:55 am
Forum: The User Manager
Topic: Exclude Traffic Accounting for a specific IP
Replies: 3
Views: 3631

Re: Exclude Traffic Accounting for a specific IP

Is it possible now?
by molesza
Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:55 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Automatically limit all other queues when a particular IP starts receiving data
Replies: 2
Views: 929

Re: Automatically limit all other queues when a particular IP starts receiving data

You don't need scripts - just use the limit-at feature and priorities to give priority to the Roku. limit-at is a misleading name - it's really a "minimum guaranteed bandwidth" So set limit-at = 256k down / 128k up on the other queues, and set it to something like 75% of your total bandwi...
by molesza
Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:56 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Automatically limit all other queues when a particular IP starts receiving data
Replies: 2
Views: 929

Automatically limit all other queues when a particular IP starts receiving data

I have limited bandwidth and have problems with streaming on my home network. All my devices have simple queues and I would like to do the following. My roku sits idle until I start streaming. My thought is to have a script that looks for data throughput from the Internet. As soon as the roku hits 2...
by molesza
Mon Mar 23, 2015 5:15 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.
Replies: 5
Views: 1490

Re: Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.

Thanks a lot for the explanation. These little mikrotiks are pretty impressive. So do I need to tell the wireless devices how to handle the tags or will it pass this information freely to the second mikrotik?
by molesza
Sun Mar 22, 2015 7:03 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.
Replies: 5
Views: 1490

Re: Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.

Thanks for the reply. I think I understand what to do on the mikrotiks and will try so tonight. Could you please explain in english what is actually happening to make it work? Is the VLAN now a seperate connection bridging the main mikrotik? Allowing PPPoE packets to flow freely bypassing the mikrot...
by molesza
Sun Mar 22, 2015 2:36 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.
Replies: 5
Views: 1490

Second PPPoE Client on a Seperate Mikrotik.

So I have a little bit of an interesting setup. I have a Mikrotik (192.168.1.1) dialing up to a PPPoE account over a bridge netgear modem. This works just fine and provide internet to my house perfectly. I have a flat at the end of my garden that I used to share internet directly through a wireless ...
by molesza
Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:03 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Delay boot of Mikrotik to allow DSL modem to boot fully
Replies: 1
Views: 984

Delay boot of Mikrotik to allow DSL modem to boot fully

Hi I have been troubleshooting a problem with the mikrotik and power cuts. When the power comes back up the mikrotik and the dsl modem boot at the same time obviously. However, when they boot at the same time the mikrotik comes online and shows the two pppoe connection I have connected. Stangely, th...
by molesza
Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP
Replies: 4
Views: 2481

Re: Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP

I have not been able to get it to work. Traffic only gets split equally. I would still love to be able to get it to work. Hopefully someone with a bit of knowledge will see this and let us know.
by molesza
Mon Aug 04, 2014 6:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Prioritize traffic for one subnet over another
Replies: 3
Views: 1697

Re: Prioritize traffic for one subnet over another

I have looked at that and spent hours trying to make it work. I failed. How do I specify subnets over single ip?

Also when I tried to do this with two IP addresses with different priorities it ended up splitting the traffic equally
by molesza
Mon Aug 04, 2014 2:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: Prioritize traffic for one subnet over another
Replies: 3
Views: 1697

Prioritize traffic for one subnet over another

Hi I have the following setup ether1 - connection to wan (bridged modem using pppoe dialup on mikrotik router) ether2 - 192.168.2.0 ether3 - 192.168.3.0 I would like to have my internet traffic prioritized in such a way that the subnet 192.168.3.0 has full access to my 4 meg/ 512k internet connectio...
by molesza
Sun Aug 03, 2014 9:39 am
Forum: General
Topic: High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses
Replies: 3
Views: 2644

Re: High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses

Am I to believe that this is not possible?? I was able to do traffic shaping like this on a pfsense installation so I have to be believe it is possible on a mikrotik!
by molesza
Sun Aug 03, 2014 1:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses
Replies: 3
Views: 2644

Re: High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses

I cant find anything that will saturate the traffic using the static IP's I then tried setting up a simple queue with the 10 ip addresses listed and with a limit of 4 meg down 512k up and then adding another simple queue restricting ether4 to 512k down and 128k up. It just seems to halve the traffic...
by molesza
Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses
Replies: 3
Views: 2644

High priority Bandwidth for 10 IP addresses

Hi all Basically I have a network that is under a bit of strain. It's only a 4 meg line. I need to give priority to all traffic sent and received by 10 IP addresses. These are static IP's 192.168.1.40 - 192.168.1.49. All other devices are connected with DHCP. So if the static IP's need internet they...
by molesza
Sat Jul 26, 2014 9:05 am
Forum: General
Topic: Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP
Replies: 4
Views: 2481

Re: Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP

Is this not something that can be done with simple queues?
by molesza
Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP
Replies: 4
Views: 2481

Simple Queues to Prioritize traffic by IP

I have a 4mb down and 512k up connection and am trying to prioritize traffic. I have a PC 192.168.2.52 that downloads all day long. My PC that I use for browsing is 192.168.2.51 I want the Downloading PC to have full use of the bandwidth available. If My PC for browsing gets used then it must have f...
by molesza
Fri Jul 25, 2014 5:09 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: QOS to give queue traffic for IP only if all users are idle
Replies: 1
Views: 928

Re: QOS to give queue traffic for IP only if all users are i

Anybody have any idea how to do this?
by molesza
Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:44 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: How to convert working failover to load balancing?
Replies: 3
Views: 1515

Re: How to convert working failover to load balancing?

Thanks for your reply. The pppoe IP will change every time a connection is made as we don't have static IP from isp but the ether 5 IP will always be 192.168.1.21

If it needs to happen I can get a static public IP but I don't really want to as it costs extra
by molesza
Mon Jun 23, 2014 5:58 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: How does failover work?
Replies: 4
Views: 1764

Re: How does failover work?

Hi

Have a look at this thread : http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=85853
Where I documented my process.

Hope it helps
by molesza
Sat Jun 21, 2014 2:32 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: How to convert working failover to load balancing?
Replies: 3
Views: 1515

How to convert working failover to load balancing?

I have a working setup where if my standard PPPoE fails then it falls over to port 5 which is a DHCP gateway. Can someone please take a look at my script and let me know what changes to make so that it load balances both gateways for all devices and fails over to the either if one connection goes do...
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:19 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Email when primary gateway fails
Replies: 1
Views: 904

Email when primary gateway fails

I have two gateways. Primary is PPPOE bridged Secondary is DHCP assigned Failover is working perfectly but because mikrotik is so seemless at handling this the connection could be down for weeks and I wouldnt know. How can I tell the mikrotik to email me when the primary connection is down. Also ema...
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 2:00 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: How does failover work?
Replies: 4
Views: 1764

Re: How does failover work?

Nevermind.....

if you unplug the telephone line it does work. It just takes a few minutes.
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:27 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: How does failover work?
Replies: 4
Views: 1764

How does failover work?

I have failover setup 1st Gateway is PPPOE over bridged modem. 2nd Gateway is DHCP assigned Unplugging the power from the modem causes the failover to trigger to the second gateway and works as expected. When I plug the modem back in the mikrotik uses the primary gateway. If I remove the phone line ...
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:32 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Enable Second Gateway for Failover
Replies: 2
Views: 2141

Re: Enable Second Gateway for Failover

I am troubleshooting this myself and documenting here for future reference and to possibly help others. It was defaulting to the second network because I did not set the default distance in "> IP > DHCP CLIENT" on interface 5 which is connected to the second network. I changed that to 2 an...
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 10:45 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Enable Second Gateway for Failover
Replies: 2
Views: 2141

Re: Enable Second Gateway for Failover

I had a look at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Two_gateways_failover Which suggests adding these lines /ip route add gateway=192.168.1.1 check-gateway=ping /ip route add gateway=192.168.2.1 distance=2 I ammended it slightly by changing the gateway to the interface name. Set the second network to a di...
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:37 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Slow network between routed subnets
Replies: 6
Views: 2322

Re: Slow network between routed subnets

Are you running 5.9? I had terrible performance between subnets with 5.9. Upgrade to the latest firmware.
by molesza
Mon Jun 09, 2014 9:34 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Enable Second Gateway for Failover
Replies: 2
Views: 2141

Enable Second Gateway for Failover

Hi all I have two subnets on my mikrotik. 192.168.2.0 is connected PPPOE bridge to my adsl modem. 192.168.1.0 is connected to ethernet 5 and is another network. I can access everything on that subnet and its working great. 192.168.1.0 has DHCP and a gateway to the internet on 192.168.1.1 I would lik...
by molesza
Tue May 27, 2014 10:30 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Cant access second subnet
Replies: 7
Views: 3286

Re: Cant access second subnet

Hi

Thanks!!! I have got it working now! It turned out to be firmware 6.9 on the other subnet. Have upgraded and it worked straight away.

I really appreciate your help! I have been going mad trying to get this to work.
by molesza
Tue May 27, 2014 9:54 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Cant access second subnet
Replies: 7
Views: 3286

Re: Cant access second subnet

Thank you very much for your replies. I have done every step you mention but still cant ping. I have connected directly to the other subnet so i could get the config from the mikrotik on 192.168.1.0 Here is mikrotik of 192.168.1.0 # may/27/2014 20:47:51 by RouterOS 6.9 # software id = VZXF-BS2S # /i...
by molesza
Tue May 27, 2014 9:21 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Cant access second subnet
Replies: 7
Views: 3286

Cant access second subnet

Hi My mikrotik has an address of 192.168.2.1 and hands out DHCP over ports 2 - 4. On port 5 I have an address of 192.168.1.21 which is connected to another subnet 192.168.1.0 I am able to ping each and every host on 192.168.1.0 through winbox on the mikrotik. I CANT ping any of the hosts on the 192....
by molesza
Mon Apr 28, 2014 12:35 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Simple QOS to give low priority to port 563
Replies: 2
Views: 1999

Re: Simple QOS to give low priority to port 563

Thanks for the advice. I have made some rules and marked packets coming from a particular machine in 192.168.2.52 to a particular Public IP. The packets get marked and fed into queues but the traffic just seems to be shared equally. Not the desired result of the 192.168.2.52 machine dropping right o...
by molesza
Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:29 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Simple QOS to give low priority to port 563
Replies: 2
Views: 1999

Simple QOS to give low priority to port 563

I have a 4 meg down 512k upload and want to give port 563 full access to download when nothing else is using the internet. If the internet is being used port 563 must get the lowest priority. I have googled and looked through the forums but everything I have tried does not seem to work on router os ...
by molesza
Thu Mar 13, 2014 10:03 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Force client over specific WAN on PPC load balancing
Replies: 3
Views: 6354

Re: Force client over specific WAN on PPC load balancing

Working perfectly! Thank you so much for your help. Brilliant little device this!
by molesza
Thu Mar 13, 2014 9:50 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Access Client on another subnet
Replies: 4
Views: 1911

Re: Access Client on another subnet

I have removed the duplicates. Not sure how that happened. 192.168.2.52 is a file server. I would like to add the routes to 192.168.1.1 gateway. That gateway is also a mikrotik router. How would I add those routes so that all pc's on 192.168.1.0/24 can access it? Would I also need to add routes from...
by molesza
Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:16 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Access Client on another subnet
Replies: 4
Views: 1911

Access Client on another subnet

I have two WAN interfaces and one LAN interface. A PC on the LAN interface needs to be accessible from PC's on the WAN. This network on the WAN interface is a complete network of PC's and not just an internet connection. The IP that needs to be accessible is 192.168.2.52 and must be accessible from ...
by molesza
Thu Mar 13, 2014 6:11 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Force client over specific WAN on PPC load balancing
Replies: 3
Views: 6354

Force client over specific WAN on PPC load balancing

I have PPC load balancing setup on my mikrotik with 2 DSL modems. One of the client PC's 192.168.2.52 needs to go over connection "ISP1" I am attaching my export below and hope that someone can help me out. # mar/13/2014 18:07:59 by RouterOS 6.9 # software id = 8I1D-X0J9 # /interface bridg...
by molesza
Thu Mar 13, 2014 5:59 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Re: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

Starting to think with the lack of replies that this may not be possible.

Hope I did not offend by not using your script. I tried to use and troubleshoot the the issues I was having and realised I did not really understand the script. That is why I started from scratch.
by molesza
Wed Mar 12, 2014 5:21 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Re: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

I decided after looking at your script that I was not going to learn anything just copying and pasting. So I reset my router with no default config and setup a working load balancing mikrotik setup. Ether1 - Wan1 Ether2 - Wan2 Ether3 - Lan Wlan - Bridged with Lan Took me a while but I learnt a lot i...
by molesza
Tue Mar 11, 2014 6:58 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Re: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

Thanks for taking the time to create the script.

I reset my mikrotik and told it to restore your script on next boot.
I plugged everything into the correct ports but it is not connecting to the internet on either wan or giving me ip's on local lan. Not sure what to do now?
by molesza
Tue Mar 11, 2014 11:35 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Re: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

Thanks. I appreciate your help. I have attached the export file.

edit : removed because of sensitive information
by molesza
Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:58 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Re: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

Without trying to sound disrespectful, all you have done is explained my answer in English. I could do the same. I need someone to explain it in mikrotik. You have answered my question perfectly with everything required without helping me through the language of mikrotik. I thank you for your reply ...
by molesza
Sun Mar 09, 2014 10:10 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.
Replies: 9
Views: 2157

Two seperate newtorks Both DHCP.

The scenario is as follows. A mikrotik with DHCP server 192.168.0.1 in one building. A mikrotik without DHCP on 192.168.0.21 in another building with multiple PC's connected to it. All the PC's connected to 192.168.1.21 get there ip address from 192.168.1.1. So effectively its one big network on the...
by molesza
Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:06 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: QOS to give queue traffic for IP only if all users are idle
Replies: 1
Views: 928

QOS to give queue traffic for IP only if all users are idle

I have a PCQ qos setup going that equally shares available bandwidth. This seems to be working well. I would like to have the current QOS setup but would like to limit a set IP 192.168.1.52 to have very low priority. Basically it must be able to use the full bandwidth of 4meg when no other machines ...
by molesza
Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:14 am
Forum: General
Topic: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1511

Re: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.

Ok. Found the problem. DHCP server was still set to hand out the default ip address of 192.168.88.1 even after changing the quick set up options.

Is there a reason why it doesn't change this?
by molesza
Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1511

Re: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.

Ok. First thing I will check when I get home. Thanks
by molesza
Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:12 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1511

Re: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.

Thanks for your reply. I am not sure what dns server they are getting at the moment. Not at home. I do know that allow remote requests is enabled. I have also seen the primary and secondary dns addresses from isp in the DNS settings. Will have a play when I get home and report back.
by molesza
Mon Feb 03, 2014 5:57 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Quick Setup and then DNS problems.
Replies: 5
Views: 1511

Quick Setup and then DNS problems.

I have just received an rb750 that I updated to 6.9. After the upgrade I went through the quick setup. I set up to dial through my adsl modem pppoe. It connects just fine but I can't browse any websites. The rb750 is not resolving DNS. I can ping Internet ip addresses but not host names. I added the...
by molesza
Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: Load balancing by IP and not physical interface.
Replies: 0
Views: 591

Load balancing by IP and not physical interface.

I have a private wireless network that connects a few buildings on my property . This is all controlled by a pfsense box in one building. All devices on network get ip addresses from that pfsense box and all share the same subnet. I also have a dsl connection on a mikrotik rb750 connected to a dsl m...
by molesza
Thu Dec 19, 2013 6:38 am
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Muti wan load balancing by gateway ip
Replies: 2
Views: 1174

Muti wan load balancing by gateway ip

Hi all. I have 2 DSL connections on a wireless network. One DSL modem in one building and another in a separate building. Everything is connected to the same network subnet. Both modems have static ip addresses and have dhcp disabled. Clients pcs are setup using using static ip addresses. What I wou...
by molesza
Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:21 pm
Forum: Scripting
Topic: Request :Script to wake device on samba access
Replies: 0
Views: 677

Request :Script to wake device on samba access

I have been searching for a solution all day and hope that somebody can help. I have an unraid server (file server) that I would like to have switch on whenever a client access a samba share. So my thinking is to have mikrotik listen for any requests to a specified IP address and samba port (445?) ....
by molesza
Tue Jun 25, 2013 1:27 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Vlan by MAC Address?
Replies: 4
Views: 15664

Re: Vlan by MAC Address?

Thanks! Will read up and see how I go.
by molesza
Thu Jun 20, 2013 4:55 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Vlan by MAC Address?
Replies: 4
Views: 15664

Re: Vlan by MAC Address?

Thanks. Can this be done on the RB751G and where do I find the info?
by molesza
Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:25 pm
Forum: Beginner Basics
Topic: Vlan by MAC Address?
Replies: 4
Views: 15664

Vlan by MAC Address?

Is it possible to assign specific mac addresses to a certain vlan? Basically I want all new clients who do not have a specified mac address to default to one vlan. Then I want to set up rules where if the mac address is known it is assigned to a different Vlan. It is not possible to do this with dif...