how do you upgrade RB133 to 3.0 via telnet?

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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I guess I need to upgrade my 900mhz clients to 3.0 before I upgrade the AP to 3.0. All my clients are behind the hotspot. I can telnet into them, but I dont know how to have them download the upgrade file, and can the RB133 run 3.0?

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I would streamline the package before installing 3.0

can you ftp into your clients?

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I can telnet in via MAC address or IP address, but only from inside the AP, as they are all behind the hotspot.
Is there a way to login and ftp to a server and download the file?

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Ken,

You can use the /system upgrade commands to connect to a remote Mikrotik and download the updated packages.

Upload the .npk files to one of your other Mikrotik devices on your network. Then create a user “upgrade_username”. Read only access is fine. You can also create a custom group if you really want to do it right.. I normally just disable the upgrade user when I’m done upgrading.. Anyway.. look in /system upgrade for all of the options..

/ system upgrade upgrade-package-source add address=10.1.1.1 user=“upgrade_username”
/ system upgrade download-all download-beta=yes reboot-after-download=yes

Also since you like using The Dude you can run The Dude package on the AP and use it to upgrade your clients behind the hotspot..

Hope that helps..

-Gerard

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thanks for the info Gerard :slight_smile:

So I did as suggested and downloaded the 3.0 mips version for the RB133c and it all seemed to work well, except that it never came back from the reboot :frowning:

Is this something I can expect on the RB133c? this is not a good thing, now the client is not happy, as he doesnt care about our “upgrades”, he just cares about checking his email.

Is anyone else having these type of upgrade problems?

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I had two routerboards out of about 50 hosed after the install. Had to reinstall with Netinstall. Caused a kernal panic

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I tried what u said gerard and if I print in the upgrade source directory, I do see the IP 10.6.60.1 where my 3.0 pkg is and the user name upgrade_admin I created with no password. When I use your download command in upgrade directory, I get “there is no newer package available”


AHh any input on this one.?


Thx

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There seems to be a problem upgrading from 3.0rc’s to 3.x.. After I upgraded everything to 3.0 final auto upgrade started working again..

If you are already at 3.x and it’s not working then I’m not really sure what’s wrong.. Just make sure you have the correct package uploaded and that it’s in the root on the package source..

-Gerard