I did some bad config change (setting bridge-local mac interface to something invalid), and now my router is no where to be detected.
I have tried:
Resetting it with holding the reset button in, and insering power, wait for light to flash and release
Accessing it trough winbox and via its mac-adress (mac-telnet).
Connecting it to another mikrotik router and doing a mac-scan to look for it.
Booting it with holding the reset button, waiting for ACT-light to turn off, the release, and having netinstall ready with pxe.
None of which work…
I do have a cisco serial console cable (those flat blue ones), but I’m not sure if any of the ethernet ports will be connectable trought that. I am still looking for a pc that have serial connection before I am able to try.
Is there any other tricks? Does the RB951G even support serial console connection (I cant find any docs on it..). Or is it totally bricked now?
I am trying to connect on port 2-5 but its still a no-go. I cant even see it when winbox scans for devies, nor the other mikrotik router scanning for mac-telnet nodes. It wont give out any dhcp, and there is no “MikroTik” wlan popping up on the list of available wlans.
I’ve also tried to do a netinstall on it, but I am unable to get it to boot on my netinstall network via pxe.
Sat my pc to a dummy 10.0.0.1/24 net.
Started netinstall and enabled netboot and wrote in 10.0.0.2
Connected the router directly to my computer via ethernet
Hold the reset button in until the light stopped blinking (± 30 seconds).
I know this sounds silly because you have answered just about every RouterOS support question on this site, but is that always true? The only reason I ask is that I recently had to recover a RB750GL and I also thought “well surely it will run off ports 2-5”, but it only worked when I was using port 1 for netinstall and PXE. Does the netinstall check ports 2-5 as well when you hold the reset button in?
xeor, it took me quite a long time to get it to work (was trying ports 2-5 and Windows , eventually I got their recovery app to work when I had my router connected to port 1 and was using Windows XP. I don’t know if Windows 8 would have worked with port 1, since I only went to trying port 1 after I had enough and moved to a Windows XP computer. I was struggling to get past the whole “Bad client IP” messages with one machine I have with Windows 8 (or whatever the message is when you turn on PXE and type in a client IP in the recovery app and Windows doesn’t feel like it has an active connection, even with a statically assigned IP).
Netinstall ONLY works on Ether1
Connecting with Winbox with default config only works with Ether2-5. This is because default config puts firewall on Ether1.
I have about 50 RB951Ui-2HnD units that I have decided to put back into service. I didn’t remember the passwords on them so I reset the configuration. Everything appears to have reset but it failed to reset the passwords. PLEASE HELP!
, eventually I got their recovery app to work when I had my router connected to port 1 and was using Windows XP. I don’t know if Windows 8 would have worked with port 1, since I only went to trying port 1 after I had enough and moved to a Windows XP computer. I was struggling to get past the whole “Bad client IP” messages with one machine I have with Windows 8 (or whatever the message is when you turn on PXE and type in a client IP in the recovery app and Windows doesn’t feel like it has an active connection, even with a statically assigned IP).