6.9 released!

sergejs · January 31, 2014, 2:03pm

What’s new in 6.9 (2014-Jan-31 11:18):

*) lcd - added option to change the color-scheme;
*) updated bootloader firmware;
*) ppp: fixed RADIUS accounting;
*) ppp: fixed IPV6-Prefix assigning;
*) ppp: fixed dial-on-demand;

What’s new in 6.8 (2014-Jan-29 15:52):

*) bridge - default protocol-mode changed to RSTP for new bridges,
fixed bridge mac address changing when port (with lowest mac address) goes down
*) userman - improve startup time;
*) sstp client - support server name verification from certificate;
*) wireless - improved 11n and nv2 stability;
*) dhcp client - support interfaces in bridge;
*) dhcp - parse decimal strings and IP addreses in options value;
*) bgp - don’t show community ‘internet’ in BGP advertisements;
*) ipsec - enable hardware acceleration for aes-cbc + md5|sha1|sha256 aead on tilera cpus;
*) ospf - fixed checksum calculation for OSPFv3 AS-external-LSAs;
*) default configuration - changed dhcp server lease time to 10 minutes;
*) fixed port isolation on CRSs (bug introduced in v6.6);
*) smb - added support for SMB 2.002
*) timezone information updated;
*) ppp - fixed ppp bridging (did not work since v6.6);
*) improved speed of PPP, PPPoE, PPTP & L2TP on multicore routers;
*) address-list - fix crash when adding two identical address list entries (not allowed any more);
*) fixed multicast forwarding on CCRs;
*) firewall - improved address-type matcher, and added it for ipv6 aswell;

Simply push “Check for Updates” in your router,
or download from http://www.mikrotik.com/download

rmmccann · January 31, 2014, 2:24pm

If I’m reading correctly, from now on any bridge I create will have RSTP enabled by default?

If that’s the case, I certainly hope the priority has been defaulted to F000 than as well. I can see problems with this implementation on xSTP enabled networks. IMO, this was fine the way it was before and should be a setting we choose to enable.

MrYan · January 31, 2014, 2:28pm

*) ppp - fixed ppp bridging (did not work since v6.6);

This is now working for me again. It would be nice however if the PPP interface added to the bridge didn’t show as ‘(unknown)’ in /interface bridge ports however. This did used to work a few version back.

TonyJr · January 31, 2014, 2:39pm

Working fine on RB493G, RB751U-2HnD and OmniTIK UPA-5HnD with latest included boot firmware.

karina · January 31, 2014, 3:04pm

rb433 worked fine

andriys · January 31, 2014, 3:13pm

GUI support for IPsec users, mode-cfg and policy groups/templates seems to have been added to both WinBox and WebFig. Why is it not mentioned in the ChangeLog?

Sleeth · January 31, 2014, 3:23pm

Watchdog it’s enabled after upgrading by default, and my RB are going crazy rebooting after 5 minutes.

ndbjorne · January 31, 2014, 3:58pm

Hi,
I tested 6.9 updating 3 RB:

RB750 (removed headers but first one)

while ( true ) do={ system resource cpu print ;delay  10}
 # CPU                                           LOAD         IRQ        DISK
 0 cpu0                                           26%          3%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            9%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           36%          5%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            7%          3%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            9%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            6%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           19%          5%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           36%          6%          1%
 0 cpu0                                           39%          5%         28%
 0 cpu0                                           52%          7%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           28%          4%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           11%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           15%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            8%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           12%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           13%          3%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            5%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           11%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            3%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           11%          2%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            8%          4%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           11%          3%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           21%          4%         15%

on a RB711UA-2HnD

while ( true ) do={ system resource cpu print ;delay  10}
 # CPU                                           LOAD         IRQ        DISK
 0 cpu0                                           45%         43%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           45%         45%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           43%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           42%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         40%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           42%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         41%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           45%         44%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           42%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           40%         40%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           46%         46%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           39%         39%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           39%         39%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           43%         43%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           37%         37%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           38%         38%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           38%         38%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           44%         44%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         41%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         41%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         41%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           40%         40%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           43%         43%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           40%         39%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           44%         43%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           36%         36%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           44%         44%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           45%         45%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           42%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           40%         40%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           43%         43%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           42%         42%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           41%         41%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           38%         38%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           43%         43%          0%

on a 951-2n:

while ( true ) do={ system resource cpu print ;delay  10}
 # CPU                                           LOAD         IRQ        DISK
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           11%         10%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            2%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            9%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            9%          9%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            2%          1%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                           23%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            2%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            1%          0%          0%
 0 cpu0                                            0%          0%          0%

which is pretty fair, yet…

> system routerboard print 
...
  current-firmware: [b]3.10[/b]
  upgrade-firmware: [b]3.10[/b]
> system resource print 
                   uptime: 19m52s
                  version: 6.9
...
>

No system is supposed to work hard (all of them had a <5% CPU before upgrading).

Happening to anyone else?

Bye

i4jordan · January 31, 2014, 4:17pm

Bug in ipsec phase 2 AES-256 on CCR??

I have updated our CCR1036-12G-4EM from 6.7 to 6.9.
Al was working fine except for a lot of our VPN tunnels.

The standard ipsec tunnels with AES-256 in phase 2 (proposal) all send packages but did not receive.
After changing from AES-256 to AES-128 they went fine. All SA where correct but only outbound data not inbound.

So I do think there is a bug in the AES-256 implementation.

The other side of the tunnels were no Mikrotik devices but for example a SonicWall SRA 3500.

After changing from AES-256 to AES-128 in Phase 2 things were working OK. Also the tunnels seem much (factor 2x).

Campano · January 31, 2014, 5:05pm

Hi, SMB not working well …

can’t access to shared folder, windows show me “not permision for this folder…”

efaden · January 31, 2014, 5:53pm

I also still have high “management” CPU usage on the profiler (5 to 8%) while idle. Doesn’t happen on my 2011s.

estdata · January 31, 2014, 6:04pm

There is nothing to stop one thing rather than another does not run from one of the version, I offered here that do not could be Denial of Service thing to develop in.
However, the increase in the cpu, why this version of the RB2011UAS-the 2Hnd-IN for more than a RB951-AN on this.
Nonsense
I do not want to cash out ahead of a new router for a new version if the blow goes just after the

mars · January 31, 2014, 6:10pm

sxt not accesible after upgrade

Lakis · January 31, 2014, 7:06pm

Hm thats interesting you know cos after upgrade (from 6.5) on two RB433AH address list was empty - can u check if this is a case

noyo · January 31, 2014, 7:13pm

Lite5

Upgrade 6.7 → 6.9

18:05:50 system,error,critical System rebooted because of kernel failure

the device works

and

jan/02/1970 01:00:20 wireless,info xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:CE@wlan1 established connection on > 5500000> , SSID moja_siec

Yekver · January 31, 2014, 7:55pm

After upgrade SXT 5HnD from 6.7 to 6.9 graph lines (Rx signal/Tx signal )is not rendering at index page.
I have 2 SXT’s, configured in briged mode, but none of them rendering graph lines!
In first SXT with wireless bridge mode, there is no ‘wireless’ section at all.

Check this please.

JanezFord · January 31, 2014, 8:26pm

Upgraded the following routerboards to 6.9 + firmware (a few of each): rb751u-2hnd, rb751g-2hnd, rb711u-2hnd, rb951g-2hnd, rb800, rb493g, rb2011uas-rm, rb450g

no issues so far … upgrade went smooth …

JF

cheeze · January 31, 2014, 9:26pm

From the looks of things, would yalls say that for what it’s worth…6.9 is a pretty good release with minimal bugs?

I downloaded it but I haven’t deployed it yet. From the posts here, it seems that this release is a good release.

YakCo · January 31, 2014, 9:42pm

Nice!

6.9 installed smoothly on the Dell 1950, with LSI / Perc6i (2 x 15K drives) and onboard Broadcom NIC’s. I have not been able to thoroughly test many functions, but so far it looks very good. I put a 1GB file on it, and then FTP downloaded at 650 Mb/s.

The only odd behaviour I’ve noticed so far, is that it will not reboot on command, via winbox.

Dean
(Yakco)

ofca · January 31, 2014, 9:47pm

*) bridge - default protocol-mode changed to RSTP for new bridges,

Really? Seriously?