A Hail Mary before I send this thing back. I haven’t been able to do anything with my new CRS309. It doesn’t work out of the box, but more importantly, I can’t even get the WinBox (v3.41 64bit) utility to connect to it. I’ve verified that my laptop port/card work and so does the cable, but WinBox doesn’t see anything. The rj45 port on the switch seems to be active in that it lights up when connected (solid green - left, flashing yellow - right), but “Neighbors/Refresh” sees nothing, and manually entering the default address (192.168.88.1) into “Connect to” with admin/blank just endlessly tries but never succeeds. It doesn’t respond to a ping at that address either. Thinking that I had someone else’s return, I tried doing a factory reset a couple of times, but the same result. For the heck of it, I also tried connecting over one of the SFP+ ports, but no dice either. What else could I try to get this dud going? Thanks
Switch off any firewall.
Set private mode for used notwork.
Switch off any unesed intefface in your computer. Do not rely on the info that OS reports as active interface as WinBox communication could be send over the “first available” interface that is not the one used by youshown to you.
Use different computer to check connectivity. If you can with fresh OS.
Try new WinBox.
Have you tried a web browser?
This device is a switch with swOS and RouterOS.
Both those OS’s will respond to a web browser.
Might this device is cofigured as a switch, so you need to connect it to a router to get an IP address.
F1 might be into the answer here.
With your Ethernet connected, are you getting an IP from the switch? Default config is to give dhcp I believe.
Do you have a console cable? Does that show anything?
You are most likely in swos if winbox isn’t showing up but I have a vague memory winbox would show the device as neighbour but not able to winbox to it.
OK, I’ve turned the firewall off and disabled wifi. ipconfig /all notes that everything but the ethernet port is disabled. The laptop only has one physical interface, and that’s plugged into the CRS309. The switch itself is not connected to anything but the laptop. Still no dice, the only thing different now is that the error has changed to a ‘no route to host’.
But how did you configure the laptop IP/network?
Try a static address of 192.168.88.5 network mask 255.255.255.0.
But if Winbox doesn’t see It via MAC, there is something wrong with It, since It has a serial/console connection, that Is probably the only to attempt connecting to It.
So fully isolated, you connect ether cable and you are not seeing the switch in neighbours in Winbox (forget the IP address as winbox will work at L2). If that’s the case you have a problem that may require a netinstall or possibly return to supplier (depending on age).
I should probably start a new thread about this, but maybe it’s a quick fix.
I sent the old unit back and installed a new one. This one worked almost out of the box.
10G seems to work fine with the default settings (interface with fiber optic reports both Tx and Rx traffic). The link back to the internet is currently only 1G and the cheap 10GTek transceiver I have wasn’t working. I went into the Interface List, opened up interface 1 (sfp-sfpplus1), set its Auto Negotiation off and manually set it to 1G full. This allows WinBox to see it as active (status RS like the others). However, it only seems to be able to transmit data, the Rx stats are zero. It also accepts 10M BaseT full, but has the same Rx=0 stats. Is there something else I need to do to coerce this 1G link to work? Thanks