Ancient license

RouterOS General
1

Hi,

I was looting in my office drawer this week, and managed to dig out an old mikrotik IDE flash drive (the ones that had the Master and Slave molex power plug).

I managed to fire it up, and it seems to be running 2.4.7 (a dinosaur I know .. it doesn’t even support Winbox).

My question is .. is such a license even upgradeable to more recent versions in its state, or do I have to purchase a new license to bring it back to life?

A system > license > print gives the following:

software id: XXXX-XXX
key: XXXX-XXX-XXX
upgradeable-until: apr/01/2003

Having it in hand brought to mind a lot of ideas where I can use it!

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It’s good that it works. It does have most of the functions you need. Just use it. It has the grandfather of Winbox - Javabox. Open the IP in browser to see it.

Purchasing a new license for it would be the same as just purchasing a new license for an empty disk.

3

So I will automatically assume that it can’t be upgraded without a new license :slight_smile:

I would use it, but I’m too used to Winbox and the modern routerOS functions. I guess I’ll just purchase one!

4

Yes, purchasing a new license has the benefit, that you can install it on a new and reliable disk, not one that was found in a drawer (which could potentially stop working soon)