Let me start by saying I am a novice in dealing with MikroTik routers. The customer has 7 of these routers in between the computer and network drop, it was really an over reaction by this customer.
They had several of these RB450C fail and I ordered replacements amd was sent the RB450G models.
I mistakenly thought I could use the backup and restore process to simply save the current configuration on a failing 450C running 6.28 and restore on a RB450G running 6.43. I know now that this was the incorrect process and I should have use import/export and check the MAC addresses but here is what happened
When I connected the new 450G into the network it didn’t communicate and when I checked the quick set page, somehow the new router changed its configuration to one of the other 450C configuration. I then tried again to restore the configuration and it happened again.
I then took a 2nd unit that I had programmed at home and connected to a 2nd location and it didn’t work either, I again checked the configuration and it had changed to the 1st room configuration. Minutes later I received a call for another 450C that went down. I went to a different floor and this unit did not communicate, I connected to the webgui amd the quick set page showed that it had the configuration of the 2nd room. I reprogrammed this router while it was disconnected from the network and it worked again. When I made it back upstairs to the 2nd room, it had taken on the configuration of the 3rd room router on the different floor
I know I messed up by incorrectly restoring the new units, but has anyone seen any behavior like this?
Is it possible that when I thought I was restoring the router I was connected to, I may have been actually restoring another one on the network?
What us the best practice when importing a file to the router, using the webgui, winbox, serial?
Thanks for you help with this