Well today I have tried to setup my new router from a MikroTIK distributor here in Australia.
My ISP uses ppoe and I have been trying to get that work for the last two hours (without much success), when all of a sudden I lost connection to my router and now cannot even connect back to it. It just says timed out every single time and it even wont find it through winbox. I thought maybe a reset would fix this but after resetting 3x now it is still not working!!!
My computer is plugged directly into it through ether1 as well yet still cannot be detected.
It is getting really frustrating to say the least…
Ok so I have setup a ppoe client connection, it has connected and everything and I am receiving packets from them. However the problem I seem to be facing is that despite ether1 having the connection it doesn’t actually seem to be sharing the connection to any of the other ports on the router?
So I can’t get any web connection to any of my computers.
I don’t know what areas I should be going to start with to make sure that it’s all setup right?
Bear in mind each port is separate by default. And the beauty of Mikrotik is that you can configure it to do about anything you can think of. So if you get a dhcp IP address from the PPPOE connection then you would want make sure that you have a dhcp-client setup on your WAN port and that add default route is checked. If you dont use dhcp then you will need to add the address in IP address. And on your lan side I assume you are getting a local IP such as 192.168.88.5 and you will also want to verify that the 192.168.88.0/24 is masqueraded in IP firewall.
I am still struggling to get this all working. I get connected to my Telstra (Aus ISP) Fibre connection here no worries, it’s authenticated and everything. I have setup the DHCP server on the ethernet1 port which is the port which is connecting the PPPoE. I have also made sure the address 192.168.88.1/24 is assigned to ether1. As you will see in the screenshot I have provided the PPPOE connection is getting a dynamic address. However when I added either ether2 or ether1 as a client it just sat there searching bearing in mind I new ether1 wouldnt work since it is the server. However either2 was the concern, I did however get an ip assigned to me from the router which was .253, so it is assigning ip’s.
Still I have the image on my link near the time saying its got connection to the network and internet yet I don’t…
Also if I use the tools on the router to say test connections outside of the network nothing works, so I wonder if I am actually connecting to the internet?
When you talk about the 192.168.88.0/24 being masqueraded are you talking about a NAT firewall, because I did that as well and it did not help either.
Maybe there is some sections specifically I need to read up on to fix these problems, but I don’t know exactly where to start reading to resolve this issue I am having…
Thanks in advance to anyone who gives some ideas or advice!
Thanks again for your help, here is the screenshot of my interfaces, firewall nat and I even got one of the nat rule I had attempted to make as well. This is one is being masqueraded in the action tab.
So ether1 is WAN port and should have pppoe client on it.
Your LAN port or ports should be on a different port.
So change the 192.168.88.1/24 to ether6 or whatever port that you want to be your lan port.
It appears that in your screenshot eth6 is master local and eth7-eth10 are slaves to eth6. So in short it like you have a switch plugged into eth6 and ports 7-10 are the switch ports.
So for testing move the 192.168.88.1/24 eth6 and then remove dhcp server and then setup a new on on eth6 and verify that the firewall nat is masquerading 192.168.88.0/24 and now when you plug into eth6-10 you should get an address and surf. Please verify that you have a 0.0.0.0/0 route to your pppoe gateway in ip route.
Great thanks heaps for that I understand more about how the switching on there is working. I will read into it more as well to understand how to configure it how I want it on my network.
