MikroTik

NathanA

No, seriously - it is hard to understand why would any software incorrectly detect 233MB instead of 256MB. ` No, seriously, it actually isn't that hard. What if it's not a detection issue but part of upper memory has to be reserved for something else and so that part isn't even reported by the kern...

NathanA

That's fine. In the meantime, I was responding to the actual question that the two people who posted before you (including the one who started this particular thread) were asking. So to say that I "missed the topic" when you were the one either hijacking the thread or misunderstanding the ...

NathanA

I think you missed the topic. :) This is more about 256M boards reporting 233M. This is not new to the hAP as2, it happens quite a bit, even more on the CCR's. I don't know about other threads, but in THIS thread, the two people who posted before you said: First one, after quoting the changelog ent...

NathanA

Some manufactured hAP ac2 (maybe all of them at this point?) come with 256MB of RAM instead of the stated 128. Presumably the 128MB chips were unavailable at the time of the manufacturing run so rather than hold up production, they stuck a little more on so that they could get them out the door. MT ...

NathanA

Winbox should show you what IP address the router has, does it not? Or are you trying to get to the web interface and taking stabs in the dark about its IP address? If so, why not use Winbox instead? Did you Netinstall with "Keep old configuration" unchecked? There are two types of "d...

NathanA

Fairly sure that all of the following information is present in available official documentation. However, for the sake of those here having trouble, I'll try to summarize: On the computer you are going to use for Netinstall, disable ALL network interfaces (including Wi-Fi) EXCEPT for the ethernet p...

NathanA

I am guessing you are trying to use the same package files that you have upgraded RB4xx with to upgrade your RB532. You can't do that. RB532 has a different CPU architecture than RB4xx, so you need to download the appropriate package file for that CPU architecture , not just re-use the same one you ...

NathanA

I suspect you're missing something, but at this point I couldn't say what. Everything looks fine to me, and it "works for me". Even if your RouterOS config wasn't right, you should still be seeing output on the serial port from RouterBOOT (bootloader) during board power-up (also @ 115200bp...

NathanA

If the gender changer is just straight-through and not null-modem/crossover, not sure if it will work or not... (I really should take some time to examine the cables I'm using more closely. They are not clearly labeled and I'm honestly not sure how they are wired up.) Serial console settings & f...

NathanA

There are two possibilities that come to my mind: 1. The main bootloader is corrupt, and when you're depressing the reset button for a certain length of time, you are triggering the backup bootloader. 2. You managed to set the default boot mode to something like Netboot instead of Internal Flash / N...

NathanA

RouterOS support for PPCs will go on for a while even after the last board ceases to be manufactured, if history is any guide. MIPS-LE boards stopped being manufactured years before RouterOS officially discontinued software upgrade support for those models. So you should be pretty safe. MetaROUTER o...

NathanA

try netinstall with a switch between your PC and the routerboard Please read the whole thread first. He can't even get the serial console to work so that he can reconfigure RouterBOOT to boot from network. It will be impossible for him to Netinstall until he figures out what is wrong on his end wit...

NathanA

Having a serial cable plugged into the 532 should have no effect on the boot process. You will still hear a beep. The only reason why you wouldn't hear a beep is if you interrupted the boot process by pressing a key. If you plug a serial cable in and suddenly it doesn't beep when you power it on, th...

NathanA

If it is beeping, then the board itself (hardware) is alive, as is RouterBOOT (bootloader). To use Netinstall on a 532, you really need to get the serial console working. If you tried a cable and got nothing, then you either have the wrong cable, or are using the wrong settings. Try a straight-throu...

NathanA

You really don't want to run 6.x on a 532. Very poor performance. There is a reason why MT's software download page now only lists 5.26 as the last officially-supported version on this hardware. Not (necessarily) related to what happened in your particular case, but if you end up Netinstalling to re...

NathanA

Everything vecernik87 has stated here is 100% accurate. ...that said, though MikroTik (to my knowledge) doesn't make one, there do exist in-line 3af-to-passive adapters that will allow you to power (many/most) passive-PoE devices from a 3af/3at-compliant switch. It is, of course, not guaranteed that...

NathanA

Hi caiot5, If you could make it work with Debian on x86 in a similar way, I'm sure it would be doable with OpenWRT. You wouldn't even need a working/bootable OpenWRT kernel, since you'd be running RouterOS...you would just need the OpenWRT userland to live on the second partition. I have no interest...

NathanA

I don't think this is MikroTik's fault. They source their flash chips from multiple vendors, and it would appear that one of them measures capacity in base-10 megabytes, and another measures capacity in base-2 megabytes ("mebibytes", or MiB). This problem has existed with storage for YEARS...

NathanA

For the record, if a modem/router is going to have a "VoIP" combination built into it that combination is going to be based on SIP. ` Oh, for sure. The main point is that you don't call an analog T/R voice jack a "SIP port". :D If this feature were to ever appear on a RouterBoar...

NathanA

None with clear mind would destroy internal nand by dude database. ` True. ` better option and cost effective: hAP ac2 + USB drive 10 us costly than rb750gr3 but with 2 wifi included and far more cpu power to move traffic in spite of the dude cpu usage, ` The CPU may or may not be better than the m...

NathanA

Isn't 750Gr3 more cost effective as dude server than 450gx4? ` You're right, I forgot that MMIPS can run Dude server. However, you will need to purchase and add storage for this in the form of a microSD card, whereas the Gx4 has 512MiB of NAND flash already. (Likely you could get a 2GiB microSD for...

NathanA

As far as I can tell, from a processing power perspective, the two SoCs that hAP ac^2 and RB450Gx4 use (IPQ4018 and IPQ4019) are basically identical. I suspect the only reason that 450Gx4 uses the 4019 is for the SD card interface. Unless you have specific needs that the Gx4 meets (like microSD slot...

NathanA

You mean "FXS" port, not SIP port. FXS is the side of an analog line that delivers dial-tone and ring voltage, etc. SIP (for call signalling; RTP is for the actual audio) is the protocol that (most) VoIP services speak over IP. But there are many protocols other than SIP that a "VoIP-...

NathanA

So, now that you have "corrupted" ( :lol: ) the 400-series with a non-MIPSBE CPU, you are faced with the challenge of efficiently communicating this on the ROS download page. Right now, if I am the proud owner of a new RB450Gx4, and I go to this page, I'm being told I need to download the ...

NathanA

In addition to autosupout.rif -- assuming that it is even being generated -- another thing that might help MT support to diagnose is if you hooked a serial cable up to the console port and tried to capture any output that might be getting written to the console when the kernel panic occurs. If you c...

NathanA

TFTP is only for netboot. NPK files are not bootable images, they are for installation only, therefore trying to feed the bootloader a NPK file via TFTP is not going to do you any good. The bootable image used for Netinstall is built into the Netinstall application, and is no good by itself...it has...

NathanA

There is no MetaROUTER for RouterOS ARM platforms. Do you see a "/metarouter" tree on the RouterOS CLI for your AHx4, or a "MetaROUTER" config option within Winbox for this model? Thought not. You might be able to eventually build OpenWRT for the SoC in the 1100AHx4, but it is go...

NathanA

@NathanA, your scenario really smells like a RouterOS bug, so support@mikrotik.com. If counting the connection timeout up actually has some special meaning, it should be stated in the documentation, which is not the case. ` Agreed, it smells like a bug. But I'm not the first one to encounter it and...

NathanA

rarylson's is indeed a fantastic post and description of how UDP NAT works. However, it does not explain all of the failure states with this that I have encountered. (Besides, as ZeroByte rightly counters, ROS is so far the only routing platform that I have encountered with this issue.) There is a s...

NathanA

Now that's really really funny. So they have invented software upload... Hah, I'm not sure where you pulled that quote from, but what they were undoubtedly referring to was the fact that it's an FPGA-based radio head ("software-defined radio"). So to use an example that you could relate t...

NathanA

Even some LTE networks use TDD based TDMA. Which LTE networks? Seriously? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_(telecommunication)#History_of_LTE-TDD Each LTE "band" is designated by definition to be either FDD or TDD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE_frequency_bands We run a LTE-TDD Band 4...

NathanA

To keep you guys busy with speculations

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-- Nathan

NathanA

Another question: if series has nothing to do with CPU architecture, then why wasn't RB3011 instead called RB2011x2?

-- Nathan

NathanA

...We have a wiki article about it:... ` But wait a minute, that wiki article existed back when RB850Gx2 was released, and was more-or-less the same back then as it is now, so... ` No, they haven't :) They are product series. Unrelated to architecture. [...] In the past, when naming scheme was not ...

NathanA

The new products sound great, but I wish MT would stop taking model #s that mean one thing and twisting them to mean another. It's confusing. Please be consistent. RB1xxx has always meant PowerPC. Likewise, RB4xx has always meant MIPSBE. So RB1100AHx4 is nonsensical (expectation is PPC), as is RB450...

NathanA

It has loooooong been known that ROS stores passwords using reversible encryption instead of hashes, and I'm surprised it has taken this long for this to get changed: http://manio.skyboo.net/mikrotik/ On the other hand, when you are the one that set the password and you can't log in to your own rout...

NathanA

I find parts of this discussion funny since Webfig is practically a web version of Winbox as it is. You can even call up a windowed terminal in Webfig! The main thing that could not be implemented in a web version is the "MAC-Winbox" protocol, which is a killer feature that I use all the t...

NathanA

We operate a band 42/43 (soon be combined into a single band 48, under new CBRS rules) network in the USA, and would love to see cost-competitive CPE options from MikroTik for this band. Not just for the cost reasons, but also for the flexibility that RouterOS would bring (and also because we are fa...

NathanA

So far my testing show that only mipsbe devices are getting exploited. Anyone notice other architectures affected? I haven't, though fully-fleshed example exploits of this vulnerability were released for both mipsbe and x86 earlier this month, and Hajime supports mipsbe, x86, and arm, so it is at l...

NathanA

Please make a security release for those old, but perfectly working boards on mipsle! In my experience, the last version of RouterOS to work *well* on RB532 was 5.x. :( When I upgrade a 532 to 6.x it starts acting like a RB100-series board that has just been upgraded from 2.9 to 3.x or anything new...

NathanA

I finally got my hands on an infected device, spent some time with it, and can confirm that this appears to be Hajime, as maznu mentioned earlier. I haven't been able to catch the infection happening live yet, but I am now pretty confident that this is exploiting the old web server vuln that was alr...

NathanA

Normis, I'm in the middle of some other things at the moment but me see what I can do about remote access for you in a bit here. Do you want me to just e-mail support@ or message you some other way? srosen, Interesting. I don't think HTTP is the vector (though I could be wrong), mostly because I don...

NathanA

use netinstall for fresh start and keep update your version. :roll: Thanks. It's not like I don't know how to do a Netinstall. But we are potentially talking about a few hundred devices here. Anyway, the real question is not how to recover from it, but what this worm is precisely, and how to protec...

NathanA

I haven't seen any chatter about this on these forums or elsewhere... Just tonight we discovered a multitude of RouterOS devices on our network -- mostly customer devices, so far only observed on MIPS architecture -- that appear to be infected with something. The routers themselves are generating hu...

NathanA

I have never attempted to measure it in terms of throughput performance, but there is definitely a performance hit with even a single MetaROUTER guest, and even if that guest is doing zero work. And this performance hit significantly affects the host, too, because it turns out that if you are runnin...

NathanA

What you did sounds completely reasonable to me, and I would expect that to work. Have you made sure that networking between the guest and host is working at the most basic level? (e.g., set a static IP on the OpenWRT guest, set an IP in the same subnet on the bridge interface of the host, and ping ...

NathanA

Sorry to necro this thread, but I have looked everywhere else for an answer, have come up with zip, and given that this thread has the most relevant discussion of this subject vs. any other past thread, it seems appropriate to put it here. The collective wisdom out there seems to agree that RTS thre...

NathanA

I'm currently working on a 4.9 kernel for the B2011UiAS and I wonder if " http://www.nconx.com/~nathan/openwrt-rb_mipsbe/kamikaze-rb_mipsbe-2.6.35.txz " might be the latest available patchset? No, not anywhere close to the latest. 2.6.35 was the kernel used by MikroTik in RouterOS 5. Rout...

NathanA

Oh, I'm sorry: I thought we were talking about a *routing* operating system here...y'know, a category of software where it would normally be considered kind of important that core features related to *routing* work properly, hence the name. I speak facetiously. But only somewhat. :? Fortunately, thi...

NathanA

I suspect a reply like "it will all be fixed in version 7".

Boy, I hope not. V7 is clearly a ways off.

-- Nathan

NathanA

Well, everyone, the verdict is in: Using a separate subnet for the other peer -- and thus a separate (connected) route for the nexthop -- did not fix it. Setting up the session with the second peer as a separate BGP instance *did* fix it. Once a second BGP instance was set up, at that point I did ha...

NathanA

I wonder what would happen if you were to use a filter rule to set the distance of the backup default GW to be 21 (instead of the default 20) That's a great idea! I'll try that really quickly... Sadly, this made no difference. That would have been a nice, easy work-around. I will have to try the ot...

NathanA

One question got missed: Is this one BGP instance or two instances? You must have been typing this response up while other discussion was going on. :) This is answered above (one instance). My thoughts - this sounds like the state machine in BGP is getting something wrong (i.e. it's a bug) I can't ...

NathanA

Stab in the dark here - set one of the filters on one of the peers with a higher local preference - maybe as it is on the same subnet/connected route it is seen as one? Thanks for the suggestion, but sorry, I should have mentioned earlier that we are already setting localpref via filters to differe...

NathanA

But in my router using iBGP the scope and target scope for BGP routes are different, hence the suggestion. This is eBGP (different ASes). Do you need that static default routes? I operate a number of routers where the default route is distributed via BGP, and after some teething problems it works f...

NathanA

It is depending on the scope and target scope of the route, I think. target-scope in all cases is the default of 10. The nexthop route for the 2 BGP gateways is a connected route, which by default has a scope of 10. The nexthop route for the static default route is also a connected route and also h...

NathanA

I have searched these forums high and low, and cannot find anybody discussing the same (or similar) issue. Here is the scenario: Customer has 2 ISPs. One ISP provides 2 gateways -- both exposed to the customer on the same L2 and within the same subnet -- and uses BGP with private ASN for failover (o...

NathanA

Please send e-mail to support@mikrotik.com, either pointing them at this thread or repeating it for them in the form of an e-mail. They might not see this forum post, and I'm sure there are a lot of people who would appreciate seeing this bug fixed. As a MetaROUTER user, thanks again for going to su...

NathanA

I finally found a nice, workable solution to this problem so thought I would post it for those who stumble across this thread in future with the same issue. I discovered that whilst the RouterOS DHCP server will not allow you to create multiple leases with the same IP address if you use User Manage...

NathanA

docmarius, Thanks. I am definitely sure that the first example wouldn't work, because you can't match on out-interface until the out-interface has been determined, and it can only be determined once you have already picked and traversed a specific routing table, so by the time out-interface has been...

NathanA

Any update on this? I have 3 units that suffer from this issue ... it also seems that reboot makes them work fine for a while, but shortly after speeds drop terribly. It sounds like this is a limited hardware defect in some of the early shipping units. Others who had this problem apparently managed...

NathanA

RB450G has only one CPU core, but RB850Gx2 has two CPU cores.
Problem with IPTV is "reordering packets".

Ah! Got it. So the problem might manifest itself on any multicore MikroTik?

-- Nathan

NathanA

MikroTik support knows about this issue, but they couldn't help us. They says what this issue _may be_ fixed in ROS 7.0.. This sounds very strange to me. If it works on RB450G in 6.x, why would it work any different on an RB850Gx2 if it wasn't a driver bug? Did MT support explain in detail what the...

NathanA

Long time no post! :) I have a feeling that I already know the answer to this, but I'm hoping that I am overlooking some clever option or workaround. Is there any way to influence which routing table packets generated by the router itself get processed by? Here's the situation: postulate 2 VRFs on a...

NathanA

You can see in the brochure, that it only supports PCIe modules in this slot:

2x M.2 slots with x4 PCIE 2.0, Key-M, module size support: 2242,2260,2280

Supports PCIe module with AHCI command-set or NVMe (or both)?

-- Nathan

NathanA

I have 200 Mbit/s speed over fiber optic.

I don't think anybody -- even those with the problem -- have reported issues with the SFP port. The problem has only manifested itself between copper WAN and LAN.

-- Nathan

NathanA

So I commented on this thread earlier before I had tested, and had not taken the time to come back and report on any findings. I am happy to report that I have been unable to reproduce this problem at all on my unit, for which I am thankful, because given the past (and ongoing) relative scarcity of...

NathanA

The moment I deleted the bridge, I was kicked off again and could not log back in - even by MAC . I think that this and your comments below and in the other thread betray the fact that you don't understand what a bridge is. :) A bridge is simply a software-based switch of etherlike interfaces. When...

NathanA

After re-reading your original posts again, I *think* I understand where part of your confusion is coming from with the initial config and the worries of bricking, etc. Like I said before, when you first power up a MikroTik with its factory-default config in place, the very first time that you conne...

NathanA

[...] but not so absolute of a beginner that I shouldn't be able to understand. This is my first non-consumer router, and I knew I was getting into a learning curve. But one should be able to go from exhausing the feature set of a high-end consumer router to getting the basics running on a low-end ...

NathanA

I think based on this post and the other one you made to the Beginner Basics forum that you may be operating under some false assumptions, not just when it comes to MikroTik but also general computer networking, and could benefit from doing some reading through the (e.g.) MikroTik wiki. Of course, i...

NathanA

Nathan, MIPSLE works with 6.32.4. We stopped making new versions for MIPSLE boards because new features require a faster CPU. Right, but no new software after 6.32.4 also means no more bug fixes too. So, not supported. :) Also, RB111/112/133C/150 were unsupported after 5.26, for lack of RAM. (And f...

NathanA

Is MikroTik really publicly committing to never allowing the combo package to increase in size to the point where it does not fit on a 16MB device? Do you seriously suggest that our own software will one day no longer run on our own devices? Well, it has happened before (RB111, RB112, RB133C, RB150...

NathanA

So the only way to communication is virtual port? Or can I have access to the same file (routerOS and metarouter) and write script (RouterOS) that will be sending data that I save in this file from my OpenWRT? Everything has to be done over the network, not local files. You need to pretend that the...

NathanA

Advanced users can have a cleaner system with no unused menus if they use their own set of packages. If somebody is annoyed with menu clutter, they can disable packages without removing them (whether combo or not combo). Then when they decide later that they want those features back, they can re-en...

NathanA

the combo package should not be combined with the use of individual packages in any router, not just small flash devices I have never read such restriction. This is the first time. Precisely. This is the first time that MikroTik has publicly said this. I have, for many many years, and through many ...

NathanA

MetaROUTER guests have no direct access to any hardware. Even networking is virtualized. There is no "virtual serial port", so there is no way to "bridge" the RS232 port from the host to the guest.

-- Nathan

NathanA

*) arm - added Dude server support;

Very interesting! Is there a reason that you have not done a PPC build of The Dude? There are PPC RouterBoards that outclass the RB3011.

-- Nathan

NathanA

I *just* ran into this problem this past week myself! I don't have a Fire TV, but a friend of mine just got one, and asked me for a router recommendation, so I told him to get a 951Ui-2HnD for his home. :) The default lease time on recent versions of RouterOS is very short: 10 minutes. And his Fire ...

NathanA

I don't think so. How would the router know which computers had DHCP IP and which computers had statically-assigned IP if some other DHCP server assigned the addresses? If you are using Windows Server to do DHCP because you are using RADIUS, did you know that MikroTik's DHCP server can also be a RAD...

NathanA

What is this "serial cable" of which you speak? :D I haven't used a serial cable in over 10 years. I don't think I have one anymore. Lol. Thanks for the info! RS232 lives on as an out-of-band management solution in the world of networking and embedded systems! If you plan to get into that...

NathanA

Looking at the manual, it shows a button on the board. Does that mean I need to remove the cover of the RB1100AHx2 to access the button?

You can do that, or you can hook a serial cable up to it and instruct the bootloader to boot via network that way.

-- Nathan

NathanA

Plus I bought my 3011 three months ago and saw that the natural free support has expired for making contact with the official support Mikrotik from what I understand means paying a ticket. Now, it seems right that for a function not active of which I realized only now I have to pay to receive an an...

NathanA

Regarding the 3 standalone interfaces of the 1100 vs the two 5-port switched groups of the 3011, would that difference make any of the two easier to configure? To clarify and to respond both to this and a later post of yours, the standalone interfaces vs. the switched groups don't constitute a &quo...

NathanA

pity that the usb3 of the RB3011 does not work when connected to a hard drive with usb3 door, and I also tried to write this thing in two different posts on this forum, but no one ever bothered to answer me ... explain me what to do to receive an answer from someone here? I repeat: the USB3 of 'RB3...

NathanA

Just had this issue. Had just kept the original CHR image size and my dude database filled up all the space. If you had read the previous posts, you would see that they are trying to resize a non-CHR install of RouterOS that had been installed as a virtual guest of some unspecified hypervisor. CHR ...

NathanA

Just to clarify, does this only affect ethernet <-> ethernet connectivity? Eg if using the hAP AC solely as an access point bridged onto ether1, there won't be any issues? This is what it is sounding like to me, which probably means it is an issue just with transmitting on ethernet port, not receiv...

NathanA

Tough call. Probably depends on your requirements and your risk tolerance: 3011 is a very new product, relatively speaking, and is also the first Routerboard of its kind (ARM CPU architecture). There could be bugs and instability this early in the game. 1100/AH has been around a while, and MikroTik ...

NathanA

Tried with 2 different power supply same results. Any idea how to look for bad caps?

Google Images is your friend. Defective capacitors will have the top crown bulging out and likely be leaking something, or showing some corrosion on the top.

-- Nathan

NathanA

I would try a different power supply...the one that you were using during the outage probably just burned out.

Also, take the cover off and look for bad caps.

-- Nathan

NathanA

Are those ids in leases' client-id what's actually sent by cameras, or are you just misusing the field for comments? If it's the latter, just remove them and it will work. Yes, this. The original poster appears to be abusing the "client-id" field. If you want to attach a note to an object...

NathanA

Edit: discard last two paragraphs because I didn't do my homework with reading previous posts correctly. Reboot issue is addressed in this thread: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=86765 and I thought that Nathan fixes were applied as well but didn't read carefully how to use it. Ju...

NathanA

So, I can also confirm that the BB images floating around cause routers to crash and reboot. For me, on a test 450G, it happens approx. every 4 minutes. It turns out that it is actually causing a kernel panic on the host router. This is not 100% clear when testing on a recent version of RouterOS (6....

NathanA

The good news: system boots, no "unaligned" messages so far. The bad news: the whole system reboots without warning. ROS log entry: System rebooted because of kernel failure Let's not run ahead of ourselves and make assumptions. This may or may not be because of the patches. You need to d...

NathanA

Of course the RB850Gx2 is not compatible with RouterOS 5.x or older. It says so right in the Quick Guide ! If the last version of 5.x (5.26) was released before the Routerboard model in question, it is a sure bet that the board won't run that version: that board's SoC was never used in other product...

NathanA

What the heck is with all of these spam bots that register for an account and then their first post is some random, drive-by copy-and-paste job from somebody else's old post in another thread?

-- Nathan

NathanA

I use CCR's at every one of my sites, and all of my MD's have Rb2011's at their homes. We use a ShoreTel VoIP system and we do not have any issues, even with the MD's using the phones at home. I think most VoIP issues are caused by lack of a good clear understanding of the SIP & RTSP protocols,...

NathanA

...but Cisco ATAs are a complete loss... I would love to run some tests myself, and although we don't use Cisco TAs in the wild/in production, I do happen to have an older Cisco/Linksys PAP2T sitting in a closet somewhere. Is this a model that is confirmed to be broken for you? I will try another u...

NathanA

EDIT - I should have also mentioned, it's not a handful of customers that drop off, it's ALL of them behind the MT. So it's a complete break, not partial. That must be somehow dependent on the configuration of your Mikrotik and/or SIP client and/or server in use. Well, you have to admit that it IS ...

NathanA

...and about 2.5x-3x faster than any kind of MIPS64 chips(including Cavium, Tilera and etc)

Wait...say what? Pretty sure Tile architecture is not related to MIPS64. But if I'm wrong, [citation needed].

-- Nathan

NathanA

This is the CPU that we will use for RB3011:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7526/qual ... nd-ipq8062

My guess was within the ballpark, then.

-- Nathan

NathanA

P.S. It is somewhat strange to have dual-band AC in hAP, but not in 3011. What is worse it is still lacking ability to use two separate radios... The hAP AC models have the wifi chips soldered on the board but no mini-PCIe. The RB3011 has no on-board wifi but has a mini-PCIe slot. In this particula...

NathanA

Why are you testing different using versions of ROS? Just check if "V6.28rc20 -> Server V6.28rc20" is OK. How can I upgrade geographicali dispersed routers at once ? If there will be no other solution I'll be forced to do that, but breaking compatiblity betwen versions is very BAD. Who sa...

NathanA

Except if... they actually decide to do that. 8) I wonder, what if their ARM boards are not entirely custom-made, but based on some popular prototype with some additions? There is no way that this is the case. Why would MikroTik suddenly subcontract the hardware design to somebody else when they ha...

NathanA

There are many different reasons and you have to diagnose it on a case-by-case basis. In your particular case, it seems safe to say that it is a result of filesystem corruption, or a bad NAND. You will need to re-Netinstall RouterOS, and if that doesn't work, then you have a bad board (though I'm ab...

NathanA

[...] will be packages for other boards based on ARM cpu? (like x86 package). I very much doubt that they will. MikroTik's modus operandi when it comes to different CPU architectures has always been that they license software for generic x86 hardware (probably, at this point, more for historical re...

NathanA

Thank you Nathan I found the useful link: http://openwrt.pantele.com.ua/trunk/metarouter/packages/. Already work now. You are aware that the package repository that you linked to contains images and packages that are also from the Kamikaze era, right? These were made over 5 years ago...definitely n...

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It is not purely speculation, see http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?p=415346#p415346 I remember that post. It was made almost a year ago. Not only can a lot change in that kind of time, I have reason to believe that things have changed during that time. Also, at that time, the way that JanisK...

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mistake in the render. there is a USB on the hAP ac

Excellent; thanks for the update!

-- Nathan

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having no USB on hAP ac but having it on lite version is in fact a bit strange ... no pricetag in PDF on hAP ac, just hAP ac lite ... They haven't announced the price of the non-lite one, so what that says to me is that if leaving off USB is about potential cost-saving, then because they haven't an...

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...uhm, do my eyes deceive me or does the hAP ac lite have a USB port on it, while the hAP ac non-lite has NO USB port? That doesn't even make sense to me... -- Nathan EDIT: On second thought, is it possible that MT just Photoshopped the hAP ac sticker on the back of an RB260GS case, and that's why ...

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They can use LXC+Network Namespaces which will work on all architectures, or KVM which will work on most of them. It will be interesting to see what direction they take. I am aware that there are many different options available to them, but I am more interested in answers than speculation. ;) LXC ...

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Great announcements!! The hAP ac products look great (esp. the price of the ac lite), and RouterOS going to multicore ARM is quite the surprise. I don't suppose you have an answer for this already, but...I know you guys are working on new virtualization solutions (versions of MetaROUTER or a replace...

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basically been waiting for 6.28 and cancelled a trip to make sure i load it in person 'this week' as posted in the 1st commend. Normis, can we still expect it this week? you guys push new updates on saturdays? What's the rush? If 6.27 causes you problems, downgrade back to 6.23. Don't cancel trips ...

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I don't think so...if that reply attribute is included in the response from the RADIUS server then I believe that RouterOS will honor it. Why can't you change it in the RADIUS server? If it is because it's not your RADIUS server and you are just renting access to your network to other providers or s...

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Then I need to change to new version barrier_breaker/14.07-rc3/ar71xx/ on Mikrotik RouterBoard RB750GL. Using download link: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/rb750gl and https://downloads.openwrt.org/barrier_breaker/14.07-rc3/ar71xx/mikrotik/ image file : openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-DefaultNoWifi-r...

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Hmm, I'm going to guess that the number of Asterisk-inside-of-MetaROUTER users is rather small at this point, and the percentage of those users who are actually using IAX2 even smaller. So it is doubtful that you are going to find anybody in this forum who has both experienced this and managed to co...

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Yes, I know it but there is only eth0 in openwrt and nothing else :( Okay, you didn't explain this. Your problem is not your RouterOS configuration. You need to edit /etc/config/network in OpenWRT and make sure that there is a section for every interface. If you run "ifconfig eth1" you wi...

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I installed openwrt image from liquidcz and openwrt does not see SFP interface :( Is there a way to use in openwrt images SFP interfaces from RouterOS? A MetaROUTER doesn't see any interfaces except for the ones that you assign to that MetaROUTER. Also, MetaROUTERs do not have direct control over t...

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Just thinking aloud - has anyone tried this with Azure? On a cursory look, you can import a Linux VM by uploading a VHD file. I know almost nothing about Azure, but wouldn't it be reasonable to assume that it shares code with Hyper-V? If so, wouldn't drivers for ethernet interfaces be a problem (se...

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Is this something Mikrotik is aware of and working on?

Yes. I have a ticket open with them, and I hear from them every once in a while about it, but it apparently is not an easy problem to solve (like pretty much every other MetaROUTER bug...grrr).

-- Nathan

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CCR with pasive cooling is not suitable for you?
http://routerboard.com/CCR1009-8G-1S-1SplusPC

In OP's defense, CCR1009 != CCR1016. A 1009 may not have fit the requirements.

-- Nathan

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This is how they know that - they got burned before.

So true.

-- Nathan

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So there is no way to force running both at the same time in RouterOS?

*sigh*

No.

-- Nathan

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Isn't that already achievable with nTH packet based mangle rules (All be it rather CPU intensive). That's not really "bonding" per-se; that's just flow-based load-balancing. To me, "bonding" means being able to aggregate multiple connections together in such a way that all bonde...

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When I first saw the original post, I thought to myself, "this guy isn't making any sense...why would ether1 specifically have a problem, and why haven't I ever heard anything about this before? where is he getting this?" But if the potential issue is with any port on that switch (ether1-e...

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Try an update again, and after it fails to do anything, post a Winbox screenshot that has both the System -> Packages and Files windows open, or a copy+paste of a terminal window showing the output from "/system package print" and "/file print"

-- Nathan

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"Use the subnet calculator, Luke!"

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Just wondering if this is intended or a malfunction. Again, if you read the provided documentation, it should be clear that this is intended. What are the odds that you would buy and receive two devices that are both vastly different models (RB1100AHx2, CCR1016) with vastly different architectures ...

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Did I miss something? Yes, you apparently missed the users's manual for the device in question, where on page 4 it says this: Only one Fan in each pair will rotate, other will start when first fails. Only one pair can be connected at the same time So the second fan is designed to work as a spare. T...

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For kicks, I decided to try port 12 again, and it works now. Maybe the port problem was related to memory address layout and how ports access/utilize memory :?: Perhaps. Another thought I had had was that if you look at a block diagram for an RB1100, you will see that different ports are "lit&...

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Very confused about what you are trying to do. You have ether2 in a bridge, and a pppoe-server running on the bridge, but then you also have a pppoe-client on ether2. That is nonsense. Once ether2 is in a bridge, you should not reference it or treat it as a discrete interface. You should only ever r...

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...followed by a "live" response a day later, "Before jumping to conclusion, log into the BIOs of the bard via serial console and run memory test. Currently we can see some kind of Kernel crash, but at this point it is unclear what exactly does wrong. We need at least few more panics...

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So after you had this initial experience, you started a thread on a user forum, but then didn't follow up either with official MikroTik support channels (who even responded to your original thread with an invitation to contact them via e-mail) or with your distributor about the possibility of gettin...

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Nathan, really you spent 2 minutes googling information about me. If I had known that I became so famous that you found a chance of free two minutes of your time to google information about me , then I would have given you whatever information about me to save your you two minutes. I only brought u...

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It is unclear to me if you are saying that you are speaking OSPF over the EoIP tunnel or if you just want to make an EoIP tunnel between two routers that are already exchanging routes with each other via OSPF. If you aren't talking about doing OSPF over EoIP, then yes, I would use the loopback addre...

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I spent 2 minutes on Google, and came up with other web forums that he posts on, which led to an e-mail address, which led to a name, which led to further forums, which led to a picture, which led to Facebook, Blogger, Google+, and Twitter profiles, which led to a place of employment. Isn't the inte...

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We got this unit installed at a remote site using solar and could issue health command and get Voltage info we upgraded to the latest OS from Mikrotik Website 6.27. Now the unit does not have the HEALTH option in winbox or web GUI? Are you absolutely sure about this? I just tried logging into 2 RB2...

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It is out of the question because it is a big rack unit and not fanless. The actual board inside the rackmount aluminum enclosure is about as wide as the fanless CCR1009. You could probably put it in a custom enclosure that was smaller, if you were so inclined. And the fans on the AHx2 are nothing ...

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...connection timeouts with no answer. But maybe it is something wrong with the line I am on now. If you are trying to do this from a mobile network, I have encountered network operators that block certain types of traffic, including VPN traffic. So it is entirely possible. Also, as I am no familia...

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then why in previous versions like v5 show health status in this device ??!!

You are wrong; it never showed anything in v5, either, because this model has no health sensors. You are confusing this device with some other model:

sxt-lite-health-v5.PNG

-- Nathan

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When Telnet and SSH stop working, does Winbox still work? If yes, can you bring up a Terminal in Winbox, and does that Terminal work fine? Either way, if you can get in with Winbox, create a SUPOUT file after Telnet/SSH dies and mail it to support@mikrotik.com along with an explanation of what is ha...

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The fanless CCR seems overkill, and I am not convinced about its crypto performance compared to the RB1100AHx2, which is out of the question. The 1100AHx2 is cheaper than the new fanless CCR1009, so why is the AHx2 out of the question if you would readily buy the CCR if it weren't for your doubts a...

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I don't have an RB922 or any other QCA9557-based board to play with, but it definitely sounds like a bug. If MetaROUTER were not supported, then either the menu would not show up or it would prevent you from creating a MetaROUTER, not just crash and reboot if you tried. So please report this bug to ...

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Netinstall.

-- Nathan

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This appears to be a duplicate post; I have responded here.

-- Nathan

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The problem I am facing is that being in the 10.x network, I can communicate with other computers on the network 20.x.p Of course. It's a router; that's what routers do. With the use of Vlans this could not be happening. No, it would only not happen if you had the VLANs configured on a switch with ...

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Yes; please search the forums: Router reboots after MetaROUTER shutdown RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down I recommend that you read all posts from earlier threads; some of the initial posts claimed it only happens if you shutdown the guest, not reboot it, and only if you issue the "halt...

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I tested it but I'm not sure because the icmp ping works different in routeros and Windows. Ah, okay, that's where the confusion is. Yes, Windows treats the "size" parameter for ping differently than other operating systems. As Microsoft documents here , Windows ping size does not include...

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Hmm, I thought we had already gone over this before. Are you doing 1500 MTU PPPoE without MRRU *over* the VLANs? Any interface you are running PPPoE over would need to be at least 1508 MTU, including VLANs. Are they correct? You tell me. Have you tested it? Does it work? Do you need external validat...

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Any news regarding the installation of asterisk-gui? I still have the error : * satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for asterisk-gui: * asterisk18-res-phoneprov * asterisk18-app-meetme * asterisk18-app-page * As the error message clearly says, this means you do not h...

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Open it up and look for bad/bulging capacitors.

-- Nathan

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If the provider themselves doesn't know their own product, how do you expect us to know? None of us work for them. Our guesses would be as good as yours.

-- Nathan

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You can't use a USB flash drive as a boot disk on a RouterBoard.

-- Nathan

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Well, I see a few things wrong. First, I see different IPs from the same subnet attached to two separate interfaces. Why did you/would you do that? That can only cause problems for you, even if you don't use MetaROUTER. In certain situations, you could get away with overlapping IP space with differe...

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If you are concerned that Safe Mode is not actually getting set when you click the GUI button, try instead to open up a terminal window in Winbox and hit Ctrl-X. You will get immediate confirmation that Safe Mode took effect when the CLI prompt changes to reflect the new status. It has been a while ...

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I just had a look into the 3.3.5-patch mentioned by Nathan - I think I will start to incorporate it piece by piece... and as far as I know any unaligned memory access on a mips box should lead to a crash. I just noticed that both in OpenWRT trunk and in the Barrier Breaker branch that it looks like...

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Are you sure about the hardware crypto? Quite sure. Search the forums. You'll find this post from Normis, which you can read, as well as the posts that came after his in the same thread: Re: RB850Gx2 - Release date? . Supposedly they will be releasing an enhanced 850Gx2 with the encryption engine i...

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Not sure why this is so hard to understand, and there's nothing goofy about it, past or present. Before 3.x, everything was numbered as 2.x.x. Every new "major" version of the software increased the second number instead of the first, so when they went from 2.8.x to 2.9.x (for example) in ...

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I just tried this out for myself and it works perfectly fine. You didn't bother to try my earlier suggestion, which was to connect to the console using VNC. If you had done so, you would have seen that it was crashing with this error on bootup: Please append a correct "root=" boot option K...

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If I'm not wrong the AA compiled by me with your instructions has not the problem, but I must verify.. maybe the patches used are already aware of the problem No, unfortunately, it affects all MetaROUTERs equally. Like I said (and as the other threads I linked to pointed out), it even affects Route...

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The product picture shows ether1 marked as "Internet", while others are marked as "LAN". Is the first port completely independent, or can be put into the same switch group the other ports are in? I noticed that, too, but the RB750 and 751 also have that very same restriction (an...

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6.27 ..still there

Trust me: I know.

-- Nathan

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I just noticed the 'inactive' flag for the bridge port This is clearly the problem. With an "I" flag and a "disabled" status, the bridge is not going to be forwarding traffic to that member interface since it doesn't consider it to be valid for some reason. The question is why. ...

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I consider TCP-based tunnels like SSTP to be tunnels "of last resort"; see Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea . You only run them if you have absolutely no other alternative (e.g., either end of the tunnel is behind a firewall that you have no direct control over, or perhaps in the case of SST...

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Since we appear to be in all-caps yelling mode, AGAIN I ASK: WHY NOT TRY ROUTEROS 6.27?

As far as your RouterBOOT CRC error, go to the RouterBOOT menu, and select "r - reset booter configuration".

-- Nathan

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ANOTHER FAILURE TEST ON FW 5.26 RB3493G

Is there a reason why you cannot try using RouterOS 6?

-- Nathan

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Are you running Netinstall as Administrator?

-- Nathan

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I have no idea since I have never tried this before. However, you can probably figure it out if you use common sense and do a little research. Like I said, if you need a kernel, you may need to extract it from the disk image. Alternatively, I see that in the directory that you pointed us to, there i...

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Interesting. I see you are running RouterOS 5.x. Perhaps there is a bug in older versions of RouterOS on certain RouterBoard models where it tries to do something to a MicroSD card and fails if one is not present? Maybe try installing a recent version of RouterOS with Netinstall and see if the probl...

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Your Kamikaze works well but sometimes RB reboot when I "halt" it so I've decided to do some lab :-) You mean when you boot it directly, or when you run it as a MetaROUTER? If you mean when you run it as a MetaROUTER, that's not a problem with "my" Kamikaze. That is a RouterOS b...

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I posted an update to the MIPSBE architecture patches with the following changes: Fixed issues with USB port not powering up on some AR93xx SoC based boards. Updated ag71xx ethernet driver from OpenWRT trunk in order to add ethernet support for RB951Ui and RB2011UiAS. Adding support for the ethernet...

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We will work on those issues, thanks Nathan. Normis, I have looked at the CSS and I know how to fix the issues I reported. First, the italics BBCode uses the <em> tag, which gets reset in styles/Mobbern3.1/theme/common.css (line 6). Solution is to add this: em { font-style: italic; } ...to styles/M...

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Just for test you cold try microSD if it improves situation.

I'm confused about this. Why would putting a MicroSD card in fix this situation? It seems like a random solution. Is this a hardware design problem related to the SD slot?

-- Nathan

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Could you try to put in microSD cad in slot. an see how it goes.

Why would installing a MicroSD card on the board make a difference? This seems like a very non-intuitive suggestion.

-- Nathan

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Why do you care about the details of the differences between the two SoCs? Does this affect your use of RouterBoard products somehow?

-- Nathan

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I know what an RB493G is, and I know what an RB493AH is, but what the heck is a RB493GAH?

-- Nathan

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"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' [...] I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage

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I'm not sure if I am understanding you correctly, but I think you are trying to tell us that everything works perfectly except that you aren't getting an IP address from the DHCP server on the router? And that tcpdump seems to show that the router is not even receiving your DHCP request? If so, unfo...

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I think my guess on zentavr's original crash was incorrect. I tried increasing MTU on both the host and guest sides and used a known-working kernel, and it didn't crash. (It also was unable to send packets 1600 bytes or larger back-and-forth between host and guest, though, despite the MTU that was s...

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What is wrong here?? The problem is that you unfortunately do not understand some basic concepts. You have multiple things wrong, not just one thing wrong. Your disk image file is compressed with gzip (.gz). Nowhere in the RouterOS KVM manual does it say that KVM supports that. I strongly suspect i...

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Anything is possible, of course, but those files have not changed for many years. Anything outside the package (like the cm2) is beta anyway, and is optional. Another example, though, of when the script needs to be updated: even if file naming in v7 does not change, you have to start checking LATES...

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By the way, torrent did not include those non-standard packages anyway, since torrent creation was done using the same script.

For the purposes of this discussion, that's actually good to know; thanks.

-- Nathan

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Anything outside the package (like the cm2) is beta anyway, and is optional. But the whole point of archiving is to capture *everything* that is being offered, as insurance against that same software becoming unavailable from an official source sometime in the future. If I have a customer set up on...

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I hope somebody finds this useful - Thanks; this is a good start. However, NAB makes a very good point: even if you check LATEST.6, you still have to know the specific names of the files, as well as whether there are any special packages that are separate (like wireless-cm2). If you guys change any...

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zero bugs left

You wish.

-- Nathan

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Unfortunately RB850GX2 does not have WiFi, not good solution for SOHO since you have to bu another WiFi solution to be connected to the router. I realize it still may not be what you are looking for, but some MikroTik distributors sell RB850Gx2 pre-assembled with a power supply, so you order one SK...

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nathan, sorry for posting a bit misleading ticket link. No, I think you linked to the correct ticket. It is just confusing to me that you said there was no fix when there was one. I think what you may not have understood from the ticket is that the fix was not yet applied to OpenWRT trunk, so you h...

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Holy schnikes, 6.26 just came out last week! *) cloud - add time zone detection feature "/system clock time-zone-autodetect"; How does this work exactly? IP address geolocation? The accuracy of that can be hit-and-miss. If it detects the wrong timezone, I assume we just report this to supp...

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Now my image does ot work and even new patch to support newer, chaned version, is not available.. [...] Just be warned, if You want to use OpenWRT,see https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/18433 Did you even read the ticket that you linked us to? Somebody figured it out and developed a patch for the probl...

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I don't know what "RM-Server" is, but if your "RM-Server" has an IP in the same range 103.43.x.0/24 that you are assigning to PPP users, then your RM-Server is trying to ARP for those IPs in order to send a response back to the PPP users, and it never gets a response back because...

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I have decided to split the patches for 2.6.35 support in general from the rb-mipsbe specific patches, so that I can add support for other architectures later and maintain them separately. So there are now two files to download instead of one: kamikaze-generic-2.6.35.txz kamikaze-rb_mipsbe-2.6.35.tx...

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No matter what parameters I enter, rbcfg can't parse mtd I have never actually tried to use it; I just read about it. Stock OpenWRT on most RouterBoards apparently supports access to the SPI flash through the MTD layer, whereas I primarily use custom kernels based off of MikroTik's own patches whic...

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Luckily i have a handful of CCR and CRS switches that i can utilize the chip in a lab. :) Except for the low-end CCR1009, no CCR model contains a switch chip; nearly every CCR model released to-date has only discrete ethernet interfaces (which, depending on you application, could be a really good t...

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Well, now you are asking a scripting question, which isn't really what you started out asking. But in any case, the "*1" is an object ID. You need to use the 'get' command to retrieve specific information about a particular object: [admin@Unit2] > :put [/interface bridge host get [:pick \ ...

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...Country restriction in going to force me to do not use Mikrotik :( You keep saying this, but you never explain it. Can you please go into more detail on what restrictions prevent you from using MikroTik? If it is because it is not certified for something, I don't see how you can get past that by...

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Ok, I set up MTU of 1300 for vif interface, which is attached to that virtual machine. You didn't say what you had the MTU set to before. What did you have the MTU set to before? You really should be able to safely use a 1500 MTU, so I'm not sure why you picked 1300 unless you were just trying to b...

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Oh my word...is this guy for real?

I'm out. Y'all have fun beating your head into a brick wall.

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So netinstall can't find the router with the pressed down reset button either. Netinstall doesn't "find" a router that has its reset button held down. Netinstall finds a router that is running the Netinstall software, which it gets by netbooting it from your PC. Netinstall works *exactly*...

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