MikroTik

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Zivtal, just wanted to say, very nice code.

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Pasting more than approximately 65000 characters in the Terminal of Winbox also crashes the Terminal. That is in the to be fixed list as well in case someone was wondering.

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Since I know slightly more than squat about Linux, this was the guide I used for setting up the SFTP server in case someone was wondering.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... untu-16-04

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Spot on mkx. Worked straight away. Thanks eworm too, I'm sure when I get around to chrooting the user account I will use that. For any other cut and paster like myself. This worked. tool fetch upload=yes url=sftp://192.168.1.8/media/Chronometer/ftp/text.txt user=ftpuser password=somepassword src-pat...

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Hi all, I'm having some serious issues uploading from SFTP to a remote SFTP server. The remote server is Ubuntu server 20.04. Its in the same subnet. I can see it connect in the SSH log files on the Ubuntu server but it seems to be closed by the Mikrotik instantly. The Mikrotik complains of "fa...

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Thanks man for the Epic thread mining.
That has actually helped me a lot with some FTP scripts, your a champion.

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Yeah, I'd check line of sight first. Then have a look here https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/antenas-160404123306_160406.pdf Your realistic choices are the following families. LHG, QRT or Dynadish You need to consider the Tx power, antenna gain, Rx sensitivity and your local allowed laws regarding T...

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No It's not possible.
It runs 2.4GHz OR 5GHz

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Is the RB951 really worth fixing for what it costs?
Also try your netinstall on a known working mikrotik, I've had plenty of "ïssues" with the laptop when trying netinstalls. The known board at least will tell you if the laptop/PC is doing its bit.

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if it happens with reasonable frequency you could try plugging your PC directly in to to cable modem overnight and see if it is locked up in the morning.
Also is there any particular reason your running a few version behind in ROS? - never mind I see your running Long Term versions.

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Try upgrading the units firmware.
System>routerboard>upgrade.

What voltage is it reporting under system>health?

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Its a bit overkill but if you must specify an ARM device its a pretty short list to choose from. Effective range with a 6dB omni directional, 500 meters to a phone, 3km to another 6db Omni, 7km to 16dB panel antenna and probably 15km to a dish. (with clear lines of sight) I'm not certain but I think...

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Probably thing i can think of is to use NAT translation between those two subnets.
Although in all honesty I would change one of them,.better to accept the pain now rather than continue perpetuating this problem.

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should have read your post some more..

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/ip address add interface=ether1 address=a.a.a.a/aa network=a.a.a. 0 If you really care, its in the RouterswitchAP file. Other than that AWESOME guide, thank you so much for helping so many confused/bewildered people with this. When you are finished I hope it gets Wiki'd and Mikrotik let you choose ...

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Clients not getting a DNS server to use when they are assigned an address from the DHCP server?

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It works!
Feel free to use/modify/curse at, too your hearts content.

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RBSXTsqG-5acD

Assuming you just want a point to point link.

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So a couple of ROS updates later and a couple of failures too. The basic theory was working, except it wasn't ordered right, so it would wait for the delay and then go for the download +upgrade. Ending up in a race condition where multiple units would be downloading and one would finish first and re...

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I've had a device or two do this, they have been helped a LOT by upgrading the device firmware.
You could try the same.

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Wonder if its related to this.
https://forum.mikrotik.com./viewtopic.p ... 18bbeba2fa

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Which ports are you doing the bonding on?
There are two switch chips in the 4011's. One for ether1-5 another for ether 6-10

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At 5GHz with a phone, I can see the AP at 1000 meters with clear line of sight in a country/no noise environment. It's not usable at that range, You would probably need to be under 500 meters to get decent functionality. If I use an SXT with 16dB gain I can connect at 8km but the signal is pretty we...

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Are you referring to data like traffic volumes / packet counts etc?
Then yes expect to lose that on a reboot.

What ROS version are you using and on what device?

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Netinstall can be pretty fickle, if you have another device you know works, try see if you can get netinstall to recognise that instead.

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I wont pretend to know what either of you are really talking about. I'm a fully qualified noob on scripting, ie good enough to cut, paste and hack away at code to make it do what i need. All i was chasing was a random number in some global variable. Anyway I've found another solution which was someo...

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Sorry for the slow reply, i've been swamped lately. I assume the devices I've circled are yours? Inkedsocada_LI.jpg When OSPF goes down, can you check the logs on these to see if anything happened at the same time? Next up is to probably turn logging on, it will generate significant log entries. You...

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Ok so I've had a good look at the configs, the ospf prints and can't see anything dangerously wrong. A few more questions if you could. What is the difference between a solid and dotted black lines on your topology? I see the adjacencies (neighbor.txt) have been up for some hours, what sort of inter...

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Working with ROS 6.45.3. Just some minor edits of syntax was required. Big thanks to Tealfrog for the original code :) # Configuration Parameters # intNumberOfRands - Number of pseudorandom number values to generate :local intNumberOfRands 100 # intRandFloor - Lowest numeric range for generated valu...

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Ok, are you getting these links downs from all the remote routers? In you log you posted I see router ID 10.254.254.2 but you have posted the export for 10.254.254.4. Is router 2 that you posted the config for, a remote router? Is these a good reason you have forced area 1 on router 1 but not forced...

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Run this and paste it here.
/export hide-sensitive

This will give us a much better idea of what exactly you have built.

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Can you make wireless1 the Router?
Or move the RB750 to where wireless1 is located?
Is that picture an accurate representation of your network?

(internet)---(wireless1)----(wireless2)----(wireless3)----(wireless4)(RB750) ---(LAN)

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I assume you have rebooted it??

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OMG, naughty corner for you!

How far is remote?
Personally I would expect something to break no matter which way you do this. Either roll the dice on upgrading all in one hit or take smaller chunks at it from the download archive.
https://mikrotik.com/download/archive

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/system script add dont-require-permissions=no name=Autoupdater owner=admin policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon source="system package \ update check-for-updates \r\ \n:global FWstatus [/system package update get status];\r\ \n:global POEstatus \"blank\...

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Its apparent the time delay is not working. I'll work on it, test it and hopefully come up with some thing that works properly.

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Well I've just finished reloading the second SXT that I had bricked. Unlike the QRT, the SXT took about 10-15MB of data to get that initial boot phase sorted. Not sure why there was so much difference, but there was.

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Thread Mining, sorry about that. Just to confirm this remote netinstall is possible! That saves me a 600km round trip. So I purposefully bricked a QRT to test this remote netinstall. I ignored all the address settings in the netinstall wiki and just used the DHCP assigned address my RB953 handed out...

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Well, it failed again, think i need more of a time differential to allow the POE powered devices more time to install, might make it 15 minutes. After going through the logs on some of the devices there was only a 30 second differential in the boot time of the router and the SXT that is powered from...

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Took a little while and I needed a bit of help along the way. But here it is an updating script. It will check for updates, If there are it will start downloading. If there are POE powered devices on port 5 it will wait 3900 seconds otherwise it will wait 3600 seconds for the download to finish befo...

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Right, after waiting ages for an update to come out from Mikrotik the script ran and failed. So I found some inspiration https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Scripting#Catch_run-time_errors and modified it.to fit in my script. :do {:global POEstatus ([/interface ethernet poe monitor ether5 once as-...

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6.45.1 issue is resolved.

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If the larger power supply doesn't work try upgrading the firmware "/system routerboard> upgrade". I had one of these 951's that was randomly rebooting, the upgrade cured it.

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Ok, I'm not sure where my retard skill set let me down, but its working. I'll trying it in the new autoupdate script and when I'm happy with it I'll post it back up here.

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[ :global test ([/interface ethernet poe monitor];0;->"poe-out";0) :put $test ] 0 Q The zero is required to tell the monitor command which port to look at. The Q tells it to quit what looks like a live monitor session. If I don't put the 0 and Q in it doesn't create the "test" v...

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Hello, Normally I can bash my way through a script but this one has me stumped. I'm trying to modify my autoupdate script so it can detect if there are POE powered devices. If it supplies POE I'll make it delay its own reboot by some minutes to ensure the fed device can install it's firmware without...

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You could just mount it bottom in to the wind and use silicone grease or silicone sealant to seal the cable entry

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Well just as an update for everyone else, I did get the handoff working quote well by setting all the AP's with the same SSID. Leave the MAC's as individual and it seems to work quite well without the need for scripts to "kick" devices off weak AP's.

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I would suggest the majority of the equipment you find is going to struggle if you point it "bottom in to the rain" as that's where the water ingress protection is the weakest. That said the Metal52ac does have rubber grommet to pass the cable through which is quite a snug fit and the &quo...

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I've only been on the receiving end of one fault in about 2-3 years of using mikrotik's, and all that did was make the USB connected modem run very slow, so I could have still fixed it remotely if I wanted.

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There is a fix released in the beta version 6.45.18 and 6.45.19. It's working well. I assume it will get in to the stable release at some stage.

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There is something wrong with ROS 6.44 onwards. I just finally got sick of putting up with it.
My netgear MR1100 has been working pretty well for 6 months.
Since that update the internet speeds are glacial.

If I manually downgrade, its fine.

I'll submit a ticket.

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I'll second the Nighthawk M1. A little bit fiddly, doesn't always behave how you think, but once its setup it does go quite well. USB tethering works a treat, can get 80+ Mb/s over USB. Do have to use double NAT, unless you get a proper public IP from your provider, but that is no different to the M...

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Mine works, so I suspect yours should, I didn't have to do anything special, just set the LTE interface to be a dhcp client.

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Also totally unrelated, but curious if Mikrotik has any plans to incorporate a more advanced mini-PCIe LTE modem like the Netgear Nighthawk MR1100 with regard to how many mbps that are possible given the additional bands and aggregation/etc. I've got a Nighthawk here and it works well with Mikrotik...

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The ability to force CPU, uptime, date etc on all winbox sessions.
Instead of having to do it individually

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There sould be a new section, a table in webfig and in winbox for global variables with initial values. System > scripts > environment (both winbox and webfig) ( it's only the current values however) It would be nice to be able to properly append to text files. So we can get around the whole readin...

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I have never tried it with MikroTik equipment but usually when doing software upgrades there is a prominent "do not remove power during upgrade" warning and I think it would be unwise to remove power from the SXT precisely at the time it is doing its upgrade (i.e. around the reboot phase)...

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MIkrotik wern't too interested in making it work until ROS7.
Fair enough I suppose, with the lack of throughput compared to the MC7430 I think I'll get another of those until the firmware is sorted for the EM7565

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Hi, I want to ask you something that I'm curious about it, in this script all device will reboot same time, if device powerbox and this powerbox supply voltage to some SXTs on it . what happen if SXTs and powerbox reboot it self at same time for upgrade ? is powerbox or OmniTik UPA will not cut pow...

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I would like to see something like triggers when an interface state changes, so router can run a script (like ip-up/ip-down on "real" Linuxes).

+1

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/system script add name=Autoupdater owner=admin policy=ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon source="system package update check-for-updates\r\ \n:global FWstatus [/system package update get status];\r\ \n\r\ \nif (\$FWstatus = \"New version is available\")...

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Had a go at taping the pins. got them taped but still can't get any ports shown in System>Ports. So I raised a Ticket#2018071222000444 we will see how we go. I did get it to work on a PC, but looks like it's not running carrier aggregation only getting 40Mb/s each way. Strange part was I didn't seem...

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Well I was considering getting the defib out at one stage. I bricked the EM7565 after requesting a factory reset via AT!RMARESET=2. Then it would only come up with the QDLoader port and nothing else. But you can unzip the firmware exe file you get from Sierra Wireless, run the exe that is buried in ...

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Well I've built the first working version of the speed box. It looks like this. MC7430-- Jetway NF591--Mikrotik RB953 The NF591 is just a low powered PC running Kali which is a offshoot of Debian Linux. It sets up the MC7430, does the NAT and then pumps it out on one of it's interfaces. The RB953 pi...

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Well I've been having a bit of fun, I can't even get the EM7565 to connect to the 4/3G network on it own, in a computer. The USB carrier boards don't seem to be working and I havent got a machine with M.2 USB connectors on it. I haven't tried taping the USB 3 pins yet but will soon ( I'm sure that w...

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I just thought I'd create a thread specifically for getting the EM7565 to work with Mikrotik routers. The mikrotik I'm using is a RB953. First thing I started with was a windows machine. I'm also using a USB to M2 USB adapter board. Downloaded windows drivers for the EM7565 and installed. Downloaded...

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Great devices, you just need to know how to configure them !

Any chance you could enlighten the rest of us?
Of particular interest to myself is how to get the hand off working well, 5 access points over the farm makes that a bit fun at times.

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I am now deploying “Cat 16” Telstra Nighthawk M1's (Netgear MR1100) to access B28 and they are working great! What speeds are you getting out of the MR1100? I was never able to get a decent speed out of the Mikrotik when it had the MC7430 plugged directly in to it's ports. So I've kinda splashed ou...

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I see there is some new Telstra firmware for the MC7430.
SWI9X30C_02.24.05.06 might give it a whirl in a few weeks, let you know how it goes.

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Any idea what can be a problem here?
Thanks.

IRC OSPF has a panic update every 30 minutes even if there are no changes to the topology.

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gmstack or David1234 While I find it's working pretty well picking up connectivity without needing intervention. If I reboot the router via winbox (and probably ssh) it wont connect and does the usual reset after 6 seconds BS. A simple disable and re-enable of the ppp interface works to get it conne...

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Sorry, wasn't clear on the exact field names

Not a problem, thanks for the reply

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I've found another solution: put at+cgatt=0 in the PPP init script. Edit: It would appear that the modem might be staying in 3G mode with that set. I've got it to reconnect the packet session in the dial script with AT+cgatt=1;D*99# and the connection appears to perform better. Hi GM could you elab...

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unfortunately the data and info serial channels appear to be the same so I can't send further AT commands while connected to determine what state the modem's in.

Its pretty shite for that, however good find on the info I'll give it a try this week.

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Perhaps try keep it simple, lets get rid of the scripts for now. Just try the following. > system resource usb print Should spit out something like this. # DEVICE VENDOR NAME SPEED 0 2:1 Linux 3.3.5 ehci_hcd RB400 EHCI 480 Mbps 1 1:1 Linux 3.3.5 ehci_hcd RB400 EHCI 480 Mbps 2 1 :2 Sierra Wireless, I...

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Read the thread I linked earlier.
All of it.

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Perhaps you mean a RB912UAG-2HPnD?

Have you tried taping the USB 3.0 pins?

Read here for details

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Have any luck Wyz4k?

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I'm guessing but try this. System > Routerboard > USB and set the USB port to Mini-PCIe On the RB953 you can only run either the type A port or the mini-PCIe ports. Hopefully it will then show up in the System > resources > USB System > ports list Also don't forget to tape the USB 3.0 pins on the MC...

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What RouterBoard hardware are you using?

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/system scheduler add name=Startup on-event="system script run variable-initialise" policy=\ ftp,reboot,read,write,policy,test,password,sniff,sensitive,romon start-time=startup add interval=20s name="20 seconds" on-event="system script run PPP-link-down-check" policy=\...

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Best thing would be to rule out the Mikrotik.
Get a laptop and plug it in to that Zyxel switch and test back to the Mikrotik from there.

There could be a million things wrong here, but you need to rule something out unless you want to suspect everything.

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Well I got it working, simple error the dst-nat was receiving from the wrong destination port. Here is the config well the relevant sections. (section) in brackets is a change for obvious reasons. Remote site with dynamic IP. /ip pool add name=Cisco_Lab_DHCP_Pool ranges=192.168.6.100-192.168.6.200 /...

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t will all work just like a normal ethernet link and standard recipes can be used for port forwarding. When you say work like Ethernet link you genuinely mean layer 2? I think example config or a picture would help if you have one handy Most of my remote connections have dynamic WAN IP's can IPIP h...

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Ok, I'm trying to follow this guide but I'm struggling. The attached file has the network diagram. Currently I can acces devices on the remote LAN no worries. Trying to get a port from the internet however, much tougher. Here are the relevant parts of the firewall from the HAP ac add action=dst-nat ...

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Ok here is a pair of scripts and a schedule, bit rough around the edges, actually probably rough all the way through. But it does work. It will power reset the USB device if there are three lots of "link down " count increases in 10 seconds. If it needs to power cycle the USB a couple of t...

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I'm not trying to sound rude, but I have no idea what your trying to ask here.

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First thing is to upgrade the ROS version. I'm not the familiar with the cli prompts so will talk in terms of Winbox. If you go to the following menu in Winbox you should find the "usb power reset" System > Routerboard > USB power reset once your in that screen it's pretty self explanatory...

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Did What___________________________Modem connects______________5 second USB power cycle_________Additional notes _________________________________and stays connected____________results in stable connection _______________________________without user intervention Unplugged the RB953__________________...

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Yeah, Mikrotik as usual gave some really embarrassingly simple things to try that seem to work. Once you configure it correctly enough to get the interface dropping every 5 seconds. Issue a 5 second reboot of the USB power bus, the modem will boot, connect and stay connected. I just tested it and it...

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Well I've tested it in Linux (Kali 2016.2) and using Network Manager to connect it works flawlessly. I can disconnect, reconnect, reboot, ect and it connects and stays connected every time, It also cranks the speed 100Mbs down and 35Mbs up still using USB2. I've raised a support ticket to see try ge...

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I'm using channel 2 as datachannel and another for info. And I can not see assigned IP or anything, don't need this modem any call number, init parameters? etc? Sorry to bother with this newbie questions but I can not find good documentation about this specific card or how to put it online. It coul...

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Would ppp prevent me from using LTE?
No, the speed will be capped at about 25Mbps.

I'm not sure if there is anything in particular I'm doing different, but this is through a MC7430 running a PPP connection.

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Ok so I've done a fair bit of testing and have concluded the following. I need someone who really understands PPP :D Here are some logs from a "failing" connection which fails about every 5 seconds repeatedly. Fresh reboot, interface enabled. 14:41:56 system,info,account user admin logged ...

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Well it turned out to be a retard keyboard error.
"add" and "copy" are subtly different.....

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15:32:41 async,ppp,info ppp-out2: terminating... - hungup 15:32:41 async,ppp,info ppp-out2: disconnected 15:32:41 async,ppp,info ppp-out2: initializing... 15:32:41 async,ppp,info ppp-out2: reseting link... 15:32:41 system,info item removed 15:32:41 system,info item removed 15:32:42 async,ppp,info p...

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I did a bit more testing today which told me this much. It's pretty flakey, ie when the modem wants to fart around it does. When it wants to work it works well. The only real difference between Ian D's setup and mine would be a more recent firmware for the modem "Telstra SWI9X30C_02.20.03.01 00...

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Well I got the little bastard to work. Correction I think there are at least two things. First if the modem get an IP and then says is cant resolve remote address or some BS like that then flash the Telstra firmware on it from the Sierra website. I think mine needed that since it was an ebay special...

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Here is a configuration I have running on a SXT5nDr2 Should give you a start # dec/07/2016 17:09:12 by RouterOS 6.37.2 # software id = 179R-CK5P # /interface bridge add name=bridge-vlan20 add name=bridge-vlan30 add name=bridge-vlan40 /interface ethernet set [ find default-name=ether1 ] mtu=1504 /ip ...

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It will also help if you detail the wireless configuration since throughput is highly dependant on that.

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wAP LTE is coming next month or so, also you can build your own, with any of our products that have miniPCI-e slots or USB ports.

Despite the fact I've just bought a RB, any details on what exactly the wAP LTE is?

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Suklje,

Connect with winbox give it a firmware upgrade.
Then check its not doing something stupid like running at half duplex.

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Nope, sticking with MC7710, most stable after all.

True but I need band 28. Anyway I've bought one so I'll see how I go.
If I make any real progress I'll keep updating here.

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Hi IanD and Wenasong, Just wondering if either of you managed to get the MC7430's working?

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Thread mining i know.. But just for anyone else looking to block intervlan routing. If your vlans are well layed out eg. 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.2.0/24 192.168.3.0/24 192.168.4.0/24 192.168.5.0/24 An you want to stop routing between them this worked for me pretty well. Just implement on the router th...

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@Jarda, regarding extracting them vlans at the main router. Is that other thread the way to keep them isolated? Or is there another way it can be done.

@Rudios, are you talking about getting the vlans across the radio links?

Thanks for the responces thus far.

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Hi people, just wanted to run an idea past you regarding a network I'm building for our farm. The network consists of several bases and CPE's as per the drawing. Now what I want to achieve at the end is the following. The first network that is available everywhere for guests with low CoS and speed a...

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Hi Everybody I am living in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India. I want to start a ISP in my City. I want to setup a base station and i want to serve about 30KM in one direction from my main station. I got a drop from BTS i will be have clear line of sight to my customers.from my base station •Now my q...

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Thanks pe1chl. I've tried it again just to be sure I wasn't doing something stupid. First I tried to apply it to just a fresh completely unconfigured wireless interface, didn't renumber. Second I tried enabling and changing the and mode of the master interface to AP bridge, still not renumbering Sam...

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Then just as I post this I spot that both VAP's are using the same MAC. So I changed one and bingo they both start working.
Can anyone confirm if this is normal that you need to renumber those MAC's when creating multiple VAP's?

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Hi people, I'm trying to build a small trial consisting of the following. One RB952Ui-5ac2nD. Ether1 is a DHCP client from a WAN link. The 2.4GHz wifi radio has two virtual access points. Each VAP is on a seperate vlan, each vlan goes to its own bridge with its own DHCP server. There is a NAT masque...

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Thats a bummer, I might swap it out or just solder a cable straight on permanently.

Thanks chechito

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Hi people, short of buying a stack of different patch leads, does anyone know what RF connector is on the PCB for the wifi on a RB951Ui-2nD?
I need mount this in a metal box thus need external antennas.

Cheers
Cam

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