I’ve now had two CCR1036 units diagnosed by Mikrotik with bad RAM.
Has anyone else seen this? I know both were bought from Flytec Computers.
I guess I’m going to have to put the SODIMMs in a laptop and run memtest86 whenever I get a new one?
Mikrotik support won’t tell me how to run the test they use, which I find ridiculous.
I’m sorry that you had this issue. We don’t get a lot of RMA units with defective RAM, it could be just a coincidence. Did Flytec replace them?
Mikrotik support won’t tell me how to run the test they use
We simply have custom software for this, we can’t give it out.
Well the problem is one of these units is in production (replacing the previous unit).
So I’ve got to pray now that it doesn’t crash and take down our 200+ customers during the day.
I’ve already had to disable one of our BGP sessions because that makes it crash quicker (assuming due to higher memory usage)
I’d like to be able to test for this BEFORE putting them into production and without opening a ticket with Mikrotik support (and having to wait several hours due to time zone differences).
So I guess my only choice is to crack every unit open and either replace or test the RAM myself because I can’t trust any unit anymore. We are 2/2 on failures.
How do you know (or why do you think) the unit has RAM issues then?
Because your support team has told me both units have had RAM issues after both units started crashing and I gave them remote access.
I’m getting a 3rd unit today (different vendor). But now I need to test it for RAM issues because I don’t want to install a 3rd unit that is going to crash again. I would like to do that myself, so I don’t have to file a support ticket and wait until 2am or later local time for someone from Mikrotik to test it before I can install it because the bad unit needs to be replaced ASAP.
I don’t have all the information about this specific case, I suggest contacting the same support person with these questions.
For reference this is ticket 2014100166000455
We currently use 6.12 , 6.19 and 6.20 do crash wirh in 20 minutes, then the hardware watchdog is rebooting the router.
1 internet GBP feed to a Cisco router
2 local bgp sessions
supout is sometimes created, reading this file in on the MT website does not help me find the problem.
Petzl,
Contact mikrotik support and have them test the RAM of your CCR.
They will need remote access and they will need to reboot the router a couple of times.