Hi Sorry to trouble the community, but I cannot seem to reinstall Router OS on my RB450G. I tried to follow instructions at http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Netinstall. I’m pretty familiar with IT but am not a comand line person and not a network person either.
I’m on a new HP Laptop with Widows 10 installed.
I reset my RB450G by holding down the reset button and powering on and keeping the reset button pressed for about 2 minutes
I have downloaded and installed the Netinstaller
I downloaded and decompressed routeros-mipsbe-6.38.1.npk which is the correct OS for my router
I have disabled avast antivirus on my laptop
I have set my IP Address on my Ethernet Adaptor under IPv4 to 192.168.1.1 with Subnet mask as 255.0.0.0
I used IPCONFIG to determine my Default Gateway and on my Ethernet Adaptor under IPv4 configured that as 192.168.1.1
I run Netinstaller and select the routeros-mipsbe-6.38.1.npk file
I click on NetBooting and tick the box for Boot Server Enabled client IP Address is set to 192.168.1.2
I connect Port 1 on the RB450G to my Ethernet port using a 1 meter CAT 5e cable.
I power on the router while pressing the reset button and wait at least 30 seconds.
I leave the RB450G alone and my laptop running.
Nothing happens, but after a couple of minutes the router beeps the same way it does when it is power cycled. I assume that Router OS may have been successfully installed but I don’t know. The Netinstaller interface tells me nothing.
When I go to Winbox I try to log on as I did before (but with default credentials) but I cannot logon.
I try to
Connect To 4C:5E:0C:39:0A:9A (listed as one of the 2 MAC addresses on the sticker on the device, I tried the other Mac address as well).
Logon admin
Password admin
Sorry to trouble you with what may be obvious and simple for some of you, I tried my best to search the forum and to use available advice on YouTube and other sites but I cannot figure this out.
I had the Router set up by someone else who is knowledgeable but they are not available and anyway I have to figure this out so I can support my network myself. Thankfully I backed up my configuration and managed to restore from successfully recently. But today I locked myself out of my RB450G by setting the IP Address for a device on my network to the same IP as my laptop (which is the only widows device I have configured with winbox that has access to my RB450G) by accident, so I need to start with a fresh install and restore my config, I just cannot seem to get into my RB450G with a fresh install of RouterOS.