I need to configure several routers and the flashfig seems to be ideal solution for this, but I’m unable to make it work properly, had created a config file with size under 4K. I tried with several ‘out of the box’ routers and other setting in ‘System - Routerboard - Settings → flashboot / flashboot once’ in both cases the flashfig shows a message saying ‘XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX – RBhap-dk: no TFTP request’ in the wireshark I saw tons of packets with the ip flashfig provides to the router as source requesting to the PC a file named ‘flashfigucis’ and there is all, nothing more happens,so i’m a bit desperated
Please make sure, your host has the ip 192.168.2.1 and a gateway address set. Also make sure, the computer is not connected to another network (for example: we had problems when the used computer was also connected to a wireless network). Next would be to check your firewall settings (just disable it and try again, if it works your rules are not working).
Is the hap directly connected to your computer or is there a switch inbetween? Do you use an usb-to-rj45 adapter (those things sometimes produce problems since they add another link down/link up while negotiating - that can lead to errors)
Hello,
The firewall is disabled, and the hap is connected directly from eth1 to the unique interface avaiable in the pc (all other interfaces are disabled to avoid problems) phisical interface not usb one…
Confirmed with netstat that the 69 port is open in the pc listening petitions as you can see in the wireshark screenshot…
About the gateway configured, what do you mean? I only had configured the 192.168.2.1 ip in the pc’s interface, because there is no gateway in that network…
I’m worried about the file is being asked by the mikrotik, maybe as that ‘flashfigucis’ file didn’t really exists is why this is not working, but I don’t know how this exactly works…
I have seen MikroTik employes and wiki mentioning it multiple times. They tell you to set a gateway (even if there is none, you could set 192.168.2.254 for example).
I’m worried about the file is being asked by the mikrotik, maybe as that ‘flashfigucis’ file didn’t really exists is why this is not working, but I don’t know how this exactly works…
I have never traced this down since it was mostly working for us. Can you please check that you have marked the “Boot Server enabled” checkbox behind the “Net booting” Button in Netinstalls main menu [1]?
But that shouldnt be the problem i guess since Flashfig sees the request that seem to work until here. Sometimes when we had trouble we tried another Netinstall version (newer and older versions of the actual installed routeros version). Maybe you could try another computer as well?
Thanks @Exiver using older flashfig almost worked, now the message changes to Flashfigged, but I’m still in troubles the config itself didn’t applied it starts like that…
If I copy/paste the file to the terminal and it works perfectly, but the flashfig stops after creating the 2 bridges WAN and LAN, all lines under this first 2 are ignored… Any clue or tip? The filesize is under 3700B
I remember that we had those problems as well. Our workaround was to setup a scheduler in the flashfig config file only. This scheduler adds an ip address, downloads the real config (and updated routeros via FTP), creates another scheduler and reboots. The new scheduler disables unneeded packages, applies config, deletes the ip and deletes itself.
the config itself didn’t applied it starts like that…