RB2011 is not working with Freecom NAS drive

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Hello,

I have a new Mikrotik router and quite old now Freecom 750GB network drive. It does work ok when connected to another router, for an example Asus RT-N16, yet when just reconnecting to Mikrotik it fails to work. I can see in DHCP server lease entry - it starts at 00:30 drops to 00.28 and resets to again 00.30 or 00:31. So it is just like one, two seconds lease, surely something is going on, but no working solution.

Please help, hope to somehow reconnect my network drive - not to buy a new hardware when the old is still good (used under different router).

Cheers,
Adam

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Maybe you can set it to a fixed IP address?

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I can try it, but still do not understand - it works on Asus RT-N16 without any issues (no config needed, no set up of a fixed address ), yet when plugging into Mikrotik’s port eth10 - gives such problem. Thanks for suggestion I will try and come back.

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I have tried - in the state of a static IP almost rendering my Freecom HD untraceable. Had to reset the thing to find it again on the network.

For me, it has to be automatic. The IP address assigned by Mikrotik’s DHCP server. The standard way, no hustle.

The question is why does it not work here (whilst no hustle with another router like RT-N16, just plug in and works fine).

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If it’s an old network drive you can try adjusting what speeds are advertised to the device. I have seen issues where it effected other network equipment.
For instance only advertise 10/100MB.

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Thanks. I would think this should be maintained automatically. As soon I can figure out how to do it, I will try…Perhaps there is a way.