Did I receive a broken product?

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi,

I just discovered Mikrotik’s Routerboards and if I can manage to get it working and it holds up to the specs it seems to be a great product.

Unfortunately I’m beginning to suspect that I’ve received a broken product. I can’t seem to get it working. I basically just took it out of the box, connected it to my Lan on port 1, my desktop on port 2 and waited… But nothing happened. The LEDs come on and start to flash, but it doesn’t show up as having requested an IP on my LAN DHCP-server, and my computer doesn’t get an address from the Routerboard. I’m hoping I’ve missed something trivial and that I won’t have to go through the annoyance of sending it back and wait for a replacement.

So, is there anything I need to do?

It’s a RB750GL. Things I’ve tried:

I’ve tried factory resetting it by holding the reset switch while booting and let it go once the ACT-LED starts blinking.
Reaching it with Winbox. I’ve tried both MACs that were printed on the bottom plugged into port 1 or 2.
Tried setting a static IP of 192.168.88.10 on my desktop and trying to reach it on 192.168.88.1 from port 1 or 2.
Tried netinstall (not sure if I did it right) I set a static address of 192.168.61.10/24 on my desktop, plugged a lan cable from my network card into port 1 on the RB750, started netinstall, enabled netboot and set the client-IP to 192.168.61.10 (I was guessing this was the IP the RB750 would be assigned by netinstall?) and then started the RB750 with the reset switch pressed until the ACT-LED went out. It never showed up in netinstall.

Any help would be great. I’m really looking forward to replacing my Forefront TMG 2010 with this tiny thing. :slight_smile:

//Micke

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You used the included power supply? All ethernet LEDs flash together in unison? Sounds like overvoltage damage or some other problem, need to send back to seller.

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Hi,

Yes I used the included power supply. I’ve tested it a bit more, and it seems that the switch-part is working but other than that I can’t get it working. So I’ll be sending it back on Monday.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions that it’s broken.

On a unrelated note, once I get a working unit I was hoping to be able to reassign one of the LAN-ports and get two WAN-ports, but getting IPs via DHCP. Is this possible? A simple yes or no would save me a lot of time reading the manual if it isn’t.

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Of course. RouterBOARD devices don’t have predefined LAN or WAN ports. Any port can serve any purpose.

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Was any attempt made to connect via serial (RS232)?

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The 750GL does not have a serial port!

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Did it show on your pc that the network cable was connected? I had an issue, and eventually figured out that it had to be my pc’s fault, where the routerboard would show activity when plugged into my switch but not when plugged directly into my pc. I don’t think my pc’s network card was supplying enough power to te cable for the routerboard to recognize it