Forgive my noobness with Mikrotik, I have searched but I don’t see anyone trying to do what I want to do, or I am using the wrong search terms
I am planning to roll out an RB/1200 level 6, and I would like to know what options I have for keeping a ‘cold’ spare incase that unit fails.
Obviously I could just get another RB1200, but I was hoping to get by with not such an expensive model, perhaps an RB2011UAS/RM that I can slot in place of the RB1200 if it should fail, then fix the rb1200 and put it back in. Perhaps the 2011 won’t perform as fast as the 1200? But it would be a temporary get out of jail card thing.
The RB1200 has level 6, and the 2011 has level 5 - does this mean I will not be able to export/import the config between these units? If not, could I buy a level 6 license and export the RB1200 config onto an x86 box running level 6?
Whilst I’m on, would you consider the RB1200 or RB2100UAS/RM unit for the following scenario?
1x 100meg leased line, with a BGP-linked subnet range, 5 of the IP’s of the subnet allocated to 5 separate customers, with no NAT or firewall, just queues shaping and guaranteeing them a slice of the 100mb line.
Each customer has around 10-15 workstations, 2 of whom use VOIP. I would say the traffic usage would be average - i.e. they aren’t doing anything special, a couple of terminal servers and 1 or 2 online backups.
Yes! Upgrade that RB1200 to v6rc13. This version is newer than v5.25
New versions might have new features and different command names that old ones don’t. I recommend you to upgrade that v5.11 to v6 first, then config moving will be easy.
You will be able to simply type “/export file=name” and on the other router “/import name”
That’s great thanks for the confirmation. I read the wiki, downloaded all packages and dropped them onto the RB1200 and it upgraded fine.
I dropped the config on and rebooted but now I have no ip’s on the box - i.e. winbox finds the unit on wire but says ip address is 0.0.0.0/0 and will not connect.
Is this something I have done? is there a way I can rescue the config without having to use a serial lead? When I clicked ‘restore’ and OK’d the reboot message the box didn’t seem to do anything for a good while so I just rebooted it.
My NIC’s in the x86 box are typical realtek 8139 units with the LAN NIC an on-board Broadcom unit. I have renamed these interfaces LAN, LAN2 and WAN (rather than ether1 2 3 etc) - is this the problem?
I sorted this - I powered the unit off and then back on whilst holding the reset button - with the intention of factory resetting the unit and manually setting it up. As soon as the unit beeped i released the button. The unit had not reset but this time I was able to connect winbox to the device, where I found the addresses still there, just not assigned to any interfaces. I assigned/bound the addresses to the interfaces I wanted and then the device operated as expected.
Perhaps I just didn’t try hard enough/my laptop was being an arsehole.