Hi, I'm a long term Mikrotik fan with my current house having 6 APs all with PoE, along with a variety of Mikrotik switches and routers, CAPsMAN etc. We're about to move house to a new property and I'm considering the approach, it will be a major refurb, so I will be able to cable it all properly. A...

Hi, Is there any way of using snmp-get in a script and getting the result in a variable? The command seems to only output results and there appears to be no easy way of capturing them, which seems to be a bit of a limitation. At the moment I've solved the problem by using :execute with file output a...

Hi, I'm really liking the look of the SXT LTE, it may be the answer to a number of problems I have. Can anyone hazard a guess that the potential throughput capability of the device if I'm running an IPsec tunnel that terminates on the device? I'm in control of both ends so can choose encryption and ...

Hi, I've been looking at how the GRE keepalives work and I believe I've discovered two bugs. Actually one bug and one design problem. 1. The design problem -- as far as I can tell from the Cisco documentation, the keepalive process is designed to be self-supporting, even on systems that don't unders...

Hi, I was just looking around my config on an RB1100AHx2, which has seemed to be working fine for a while and I noticed that all of the ethernet interfaces had "speed=100Mbps" (/interface ethernet print detail) This wasn't a config that I set ... and an "export" didn't show the s...

Hi, I'm really keen on using some of the NetMetal 5's as access points. Am I ok just directly attaching a set of omni antenna's (i.e. the normal home router style ones) or is that going to be a problem from a power/proximity perspective? Second question ... I'm also looking at the potential of using...

Further digging shows that the policies on linux are installed with the port 500 bit... src <mikrotik>/32 dst <linux>/32 proto gre sport 500 dport 500 dir in priority 2816 ptype main tmpl src 0.0.0.0 dst 0.0.0.0 proto esp reqid 1 mode transport src <linux>/32 dst <mikrotik>/32 proto gre sport 500 dp...

Hi, I'm trying to setup a transport mode IPsec encrypted GRE tunnel, from one Mikrotik device to a Linux box running strongswan. If I use tunnel mode (all other configs the same) then it's fine, but transport mode has a strange behaviour that causes the linux->mikrotik GRE packets to leave without b...

RB850Gx2 was originally advertised to contain an SoC part that implemented hardware-accelerated IPsec, but this SoC was swapped out at the last minute with a different Freescale SKU that does not contain the hardware encryption engine, and any references to it in the promotional and advertising mat...

Hi dasiu, I've been messing around with a different device and don't have the original one online to confirm everything you have suggested, I'll revalidate in the next day or so. But to answer some of your questions... 1. /ip firewall nat -- had some disabled entries, but nothing enabled. I'm assumi...

Hi, I think there is something wrong with the Metarouter implementation. I've got a non-encrypting IPsec setup that manages about 80-90Mbps. However once I enable an OpenWRT metarouter the throughput drops to 40Mbps. The metarouter isn't doing anything and has an unbridged network interface so shoul...

Hi, I've been experimenting with various IPsec options with a RB951G, using v6.7. For most of my traffic I really just need a kind of proxy, but I'm dealing with a nasty ISP that shapes all sorts of stuff, so I've finally settled on an unencrypted IPsec tunnel. I can get pretty good performance, clo...

Thanks for the response, but you've nicely indicated my point. This checks every five minutes, which has two problems... 1. There could be a 5 min (I know it could be one min) delay. 2. We're polling! The router knows exactly when the link has come up ... why not have an option to run a script at th...

I try to work with the patch for 1209 instead of the official metarouter-1.2 but when I run make menuconfig I cant find Mikrotik MetaROUTER MIPS at Target System. Do i make something wrong? Hi, You need to download the 12.09 release from OpenWRT using either git or svn... git clone git://git.openwr...

Hi, It seems that there is a permission issue with the way the filesystem works on metarouter ... dnsmasq switches to the 'nobody' user once it gets going, and after that it doesn't seem to be able to access anything on the filesystem. Jan 1 00:01:03 dnsmasq[1480]: failed to access /tmp/resolv.conf....

There are still problems with this ... at least on trunk... [EDIT] This does appear to be only a problem on trunk, it seems ok on 12.09. root@OpenWrt:/# [ 0.000000] skbuff: skb_over_panic: text:c0256bc4 len:518080 put:518080 head:c0958e80 data:c0958ec0 tail:0xc09d7680 end:0xc0959500 dev:<NULL> [ 0.0...

Hi, I can't seem to find any mechanism for automatically calling a script as a result of certain events? (Other than traffic monitor and netwatch) I would like to run a script when a pppoe link comes up, I know I can achieve the same result using netwatch or a regularly scheduled script, but I thoug...

OK, final post for a while (hopefully) ... I effectively started again only putting in the 3_3_5 patch stuff that I though was necessary, so all of the extra stuff is now removed, this is a much simpler patch, and much closer in spirit to the original 1.2 patch from Mikrotik. I have produced two pat...

Here is an initial patch ... a few comments: 1. This is against Attitude Adjustment (12.09) r39154. 2. I have only looked at mips, the ppc code is in there but I haven't tested a build or created the target stuff for it (I don't have a ppc system, so can't test this anyway) 3. This is based on the M...

OK ... now it seems to be working ... I've deleted lots of the MikroTik patch, which is a bit of a shame, but now I have a fully functional (at least as far as I have tested) mips Attitude Adjutment build.

I'll try to get back to a controlled state and then post a patch tomorrow.

Regards,

Lee.

I've cut a load of stuff out of the patch to try to get back to basics, but I'm still struggling with a bridge related problem: _______ ________ __ | |.-----.-----.-----.| | | |.----.| |_ | - || _ | -__| || | | || _|| _| |_______|| __|_____|__|__||________||__| |____| |__| W I R E L E S S F R E E D ...

Ok ... not sure what was happening with the console, it's behaving as expected now. I have a build of OpenWRT now working with the 3.3.8 kernel, unfortunately there are still issues to be resolved. The failsafe mode works ok, but once it starts trying to load modules you get this: [ 0.000000] ------...

MikroTik's own kernels have always been configured/patched to not print out boot messages. They do this by redefining the DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL preprocessor constant in printk.c from 7 to 1. This is really interesting because I left this patch in yet I seem to be having full messages on the cons...

Update: I've fixed the console by doing a clean build, so it was a problem caused by adding .config items as I was testing. For reference: [ 0.000000] Linux version 3.3.5 (essele@XXXXXXXXX) (gcc version 4.6.4 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.6-2013.05 r39203) ) #13 Thu Jan 9 12:04:48 GMT 2014 [ 0.000000] CPU r...

Ok, I've made some progress ... I now have a 3.3.5 kernel which appears to boot. The console isn't working properly, so I don't get any of the boot messages, however I do get the following: [Ctrl-A is the prefix key] init started: BusyBox v1.16.1 (2010-04-13 10:25:42 EEST) /etc/init.d/rcS: line 17: ...

I've just recreated this exact issue, tested a RB951G originally on 5.25 and now on 6.7. The MikroTik provided image works fine, a manually built image from OpenWRT svn (as per MikroTik) and patch 1.2 also works fine, but attitude adjustment with the 1.3 patch has absolutely no output at all. I've b...

Hi, Ok to take a really simple example ... I have a 5-port device, if I want it to act as a 5-port switch with wire-speed switching, then I can set ether1 as a master with ether2-5 as slaves. According to that documentation I won't be able to use ether1 now as it's designated as a master, i.e. I won...

Hi, I'm looking at the documentation around switch features, and the following text is there: Switching feature allows wire speed traffic passing among a group of ports, like the ports were a regular ethernet switch. You configure this feature by setting a "master-port" property to one ore...

Hi, I'm relatively new to Routerboards, but a long time user of OpenWRT trunk builds on a variety of different hardware. I'm really interested in the metarouter concept to run OpenWRT as a VM, but I like using trunk and certainly don't want to be way out of date. I see there is a patch (v1.2) discus...