Issue with x86 platform

RouterOS General
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I’m running a Level4 license on an x86 platform.

It’s a supermicro chassis with an intel chipset and 2 gigabit ethernet interfaces.

My problem is that the router seems to stop responding every week or so. At first I suspected DDoS, but I’ve ruled that out.

I stopped using DNS service in the router as a suspect that may be causing a problem.

It’s got 1gig of ram and The os is running on a 8GB USB 2.0 storage device. Could this be an issue?

When I reboot the server everything works fine again. But i’m not sure what the problem could be.

Does anyone know of anywhere i could look to troubleshoot this? I’m running limited logs also since I though that could have been an issue.

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turn on resource graphing and look at the memory usage… is it climbing and climbing?

can you disable any more resources in the bios? secondary IDE, etc.

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Hi,

Just setup a similar machine with results like yours.

By chance does your SuperMicro board have Realtek RTL8111C-GR Ethernet ports on it?

Dean

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I’m not sure… I will look into this soon.

I just got back from a 2 hour trip to the DC. Switched it with a Brand new RB1000U.

A local dealer got 2 in today.. I was so lucky.

More details to follow on my crap x86 system. I have it at home and will play around with it tomorrow.

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I was having this issue with RouterOS V4. V4 has been very unstable for us. A duplicate Supermicro router is running V3.30 without issue. I have reloaded the machine running V4 to V5Beta4 with good results so far.

-Louis

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For - Letni. How long have you been testing V5Beta4 for, without a spontaneous reboot?

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So I’ve done some more experimenting with the x86 system.

I removed all IP addresses and disabled all firewall rules.

I created a 192.168.0.0/30 subnet with a spare mikrotik rb450 I have at home.

When I ping the x86 system I’m getting 54% packet loss!! Ping times are ranging between 0-7ms also. Should be all under 1ms as it’s only one 3 foot cat5 cable linking them.

System resources shows only 1% CPU utlilization and about 987 out of 1GB of ram free…

Anything I should do to keep narrowing down?

I also noticed this in the logs: login failure for user &[2~&[B&[B via local

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Which super micro board? (system pcb)

I have seen one type, that when installed in a “front facing IO” case gets flakey…

You can tweek the case and the board will work for a while then die (mine was related to the drive) IDE.. / sata

looks like a micro crack or a surface mount componant issue…

Let me know…