Interface shows R (running) when it's not

RouterOS General
1

Hello all,

Sorry to come to you with a problem but I’m stumped by this! Setup is an x86 installation (forced to 64bit). Ethernet setup is as below;

# jun/27/2017 19:22:02 by RouterOS 6.38.7
# software id = K6ZK-DBVU
#
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=ether1 ] advertise=10M-half,10M-full,100M-half,100M-full,1000M-half,1000M-full
set [ find default-name=ether2 ] advertise=10M-half,10M-full,100M-half,100M-full,1000M-half,1000M-full
set [ find default-name=ether3 ] advertise=10M-half,10M-full,100M-half,100M-full,1000M-half,1000M-full
set [ find default-name=ether4 ] advertise=10M-half,10M-full,100M-half,100M-full,1000M-half,1000M-full

However the interfaces always show as running even though they are not bridged or switched at all. 2 are the servers onboard and 2 are an additional Intel card. Only ether4 has a cable into it which is to my LAN which I’m using to access it (so I understand that should have an R).

[sc@MikroTik] > /interface print 
Flags: D - dynamic, X - disabled, R - running, S - slave 
 #     NAME                                TYPE       ACTUAL-MTU L2MTU  MAX-L2MTU MAC-ADDRESS      
 0  R  ether1                              ether            1500                  90:E2:BA:0D:66:30
 1  R  ether2                              ether            1500                  90:E2:BA:0D:66:31
 2  R  ether3                              ether            1500                  D4:AE:52:B7:3E:10
 3  R  ether4                              ether            1500                  D4:AE:52:B7:3E:11
[sc@MikroTik] >

I’m running latest bugfix and have never come across this before. Anybody else found and fixed this?

2

I would start looking into the BIOS and network card BIOS (if any) settings. Have you tried another ROS version?

3

Thank you for your reply.
It was an ancient 5.5 to start with, I moved it to 6.31 (and forced 64bit) then up to latest bugfix. As it turns out now I’ve decided against running it on the bare metal as I need to use the server for another purpose so have completely destroyed the install and have opted to go for ESXi and a CHR image.

4

x86 by default have disabled running check.
Set disable-running-check=no for Ethernet interfaces.

5

Where would we find this?

6

In terminal:

/interface ethernet set disable-running-check=no <interface name>

I don’t see it in WinBox/WebFig.

7

Yes, this option is available only from terminal.

8

it is important for me

9

I have used this command for x86 ROS fine before. However I an setting up a CHR instance in ESXI and this command does not do anything.

How do you get this to work on a CHR?

10

You won’t.

The interface on your CHR will always be connected to the vSwitch/port group in ESXi.