Installing / running dude on internal storage on hAP ac²

RouterOS General
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Hi!

I would like kindly ask you if it possible to run / install and use Dude on standalone hAP ac²? I am getting strange results - I setup a device and parameters but after rebooting the route everything is lost and I need to configure it again - so I am asking - am I doing something wrong by leaving Dude installation on internal storage? Must it be installed on external USB key?

Thank you,
Luka

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hAP ac2 has only got 16MB storage … of which only a meg or two is usually free. Therefore the permanent storage us actually available under/flash … / is RAM disk and gets lost on reboot.

I’d generally advise against running anything write-intensive on internal storage … as all flash disks it wears out and then device becomes a brick (ROS license us stored on flash and it’s nearly impossible to transfer it elsewhere)

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Hi! Thank you for explanation - what a pity - I need Dude to do some local SNMP monitoring that will not grow more than 500K the database … Well I will go for a USB fit stick. Can you suggest any do you have any experience with USB fit sticks and Mikrotik?

Thank you,
Luka

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Any USB flash stick with capacity of a few GB should do.

However, my personal experience with hAP ac2 is that it’s quite warm and that heat transfers to USB sticks easily. So you better find an USB stick which can sustain higher temperature (like 50°C) … mine is in metallic housing which actually helps to cool the whole unit.

Nova Gorica?

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Great, thank you for the reply - so you are using USB stick that has metallic enclosure? Like https://www.mimovrste.com/usb-kljuci/kingston-usb-kljucek-dtse9g2-32-gb ?

Yes, Nova Gorica! :slight_smile:

Luka

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Very much like this one.

A bit of private stuff follows … I’m sorry for not using English, but online translators can help the cat not to get killed by curiosity…

Tvoje predavanje na Seminarju Radijske Komunikacije na FE v Ljubljani leta 2016 me je prepričalo, da sem se odločil za uporabo Mikrotik opreme. In za to ti bom večno hvaležen! To dokazuje tudi datum moje “včlanitve” na ta forum. Hvala!

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Thank you very much for the answer! I am getting some of those tomorow! :slight_smile:

Izredno me je razveselilo tole sporočilo! :slight_smile: Za enkrat vse deluje super tako, da gremo dalje, naj živi in se razvija MikroTik! :slight_smile:

Pozdrav,
Luka