Hello everyone, I’m rookie with MikroTik hardware. I do some labbing with my RB5009 router. I lost access to my router after deploying a ‘drop’ firewall rule, because I forgot to set up an exception rule first. As far as I know, this model doesn’t have a console port.
Winbox connection doesn’t work — not even over MAC address, which is strange, MAC works on Layer 2 and I thought firewalls only act on Layer 3.
So the only option is a factory reset, and I’ll lose my settings?
Have you tried connecting to another port and use WInbox MAC access ?
If that also fails, you really locked yourself out.
Lesson learned …
Interesting info to read first before you do it again:
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Yes, I’ve tried and didn’t work.
Thanks for the link you sent. Even though I locked myself out, that kind of situations are very valuable in home labbing.
Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure there is no forum member that hasn’t locked themself out of the router 
That’s why we always recommend to set one port off the bridge for mgmt purposes and to avoid locking yourself out.