IP-less AWS CHR

Hi guys,

I’m a Mikrotik fan and use your products for all of my projects.

I have a big problem, hope you can help me. I have a CHR in AWS with LOADS of configurations. By mistake I deleted the dhcp client. So the router has no IP.

I launched another instance instance in the same subnet and tryied to connect using the mac address, but is not working. The AWS network is not like a regular network. Also AWS doesn’t have a live view of the instance, you can only connect by SSH using an IP address.

Can you think of a solution?

Thanks in advance!!!

Download the volume and boot it locally in something like VMware workstation or VirtualBox. You can perform something like MAC Telnet their or just type /export from the console and copy down the settings.

Alternatively, detach the volume from the CHR and attach it to a Linux instance. Mount the file-system and see if you can find a configuration file. I think MikroTik uses ext3.

A link to Amazon Docs on downloading instances: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmexport.html
A link to an older tool to help downloading an image: https://cloudyscripts.com/tool/show/3