Since 7.20 I have been unable to delete the dynamic route to the ISP created when the router is restarted from Winbox (“cannot modify dynamic route created by a different owner”) in the Route List.
My scenario was as follows: the router is configured with a VPN. After a restart, I had my fixed route to the ISP (inactive), the route via VPN (active), and the dynamically created route to the ISP (active). I then deleted the dynamic created route and the route to the VPN was taking over traffic.
Creating the dynamic route was a convenient fallback—for example, if the VPN wasn't working, other family members could restart the router physically without me and Winbox and they have internet access to the ISP for the time being.
In between I found something about this change in the 7.20 release notes. However it's a pain in the ..s.
How can I delete the dynamic route as I could before the update? I’m working as a user in Group Full, not as the original admin.
Are you using a static route to point to your VPN and using DHCP for the dynamic route?
If so you may be able to use the "distance" of the route to have your router prefer the static route over the dynamic route. If the static route is not resolvable, the dynamic route will become active.
To do this:
add "default-route-distance=2" to your dhcp client config. This will cause its route to have a distance of 2 instead of the default of 1
your static route should default to distance=1, and should become the active route.
You can use the command
/routing/route print
to show all routes.
There are folks here with more Mikrotik routing experience than me, so let me know if this is impractical or there is a better way.
edit - here is working example (without a VPN, just demonstrating a static route)
> /routing/route/ print
Flags: U - UNREACHABLE, A - ACTIVE; c - CONNECT, s - STATIC, d - DHCP, g - SLAAC; B - BLACKHOLE
Columns: DST-ADDRESS, GATEWAY, AFI, ROUTING-TABLE, DISTANCE, SCOPE, TARGET-SCOPE, IMMEDIATE-GW
DST-ADDRESS GATEWAY AFI ROUTING-TABLE DISTANCE SCOPE TARGET-SCOPE IMMEDIATE-GW
d 0.0.0.0/0 128.43.71.1 ip main 2 30 10 128.43.71.1%ether1
As 0.0.0.0/0 128.43.71.1 ip main 1 30 10 128.43.71.1%ether1
Dont understand a thing stated, perhaps include a detailed network diagram.
Also what do you mean, you seem to be wanting to make changes to the router but are not the admin.
Here is the sage advice --> Ask the admin to make the necessary changes.
The OP is working with a user in the group “Full” but not user “admin”. They did explain this a little better in their Reddit post asking the same question.