ROS V4 upgrading and license issue

RouterOS General
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I know it’s easy to one-click upgrade your licenses when you go to ROS 4.x but I use a lot of mikrotik stuff on private non-internet connected links.

I can’t be the only person that doesn’t let his routerboards talk to the internet, so I can’t just click upgrade to new licensing. Also, quite a few of my routerboards have superband licenses. Are these updated as well when I upgrade?

What do I do here?

2

Don’t know about superband, but when you upgrade a license the RB itself does not need internet access, only the laptop running Winbox does. So you can, for example, put a 3G card into a laptop, make that the default gateway, connect directly to a router that is not connected to the internet and upgrade the license on it.

3

Thats cool, but some of them are R E M O T E locations

4

Are you sure about that? I failed to update the key on one of my routers because I did not properly configured dns and default gateway. Winbox just gave som general error messages that the key could not be updated. When I tried to update the key from the command prompt, it gave me the following error messages.

“Failed to resolve http://www.mikrotik.com, check your dns settings”

I got the following error message after I fixed the dns settings.

“Failed to connect, is your router public?”

I was able to update the key after I added the default gateway.

5

I have to admit that I don’t have any RouterOS devices without internet connectivity since I pretty much only use them for Hotspots, but from the Wiki:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/All_about_licenses#New_8_symbol_SoftID

The following actions will be taken:

  1. Winbox will contact > www.mikrotik.com > with your old SoftID

  2. www.mikrotik.com > will check the database and see details about your key

  3. the server will generate a new key as “upgrade” and put it into the same account as old one
  4. Winbox will receive the new key and automatically License your router with the new key
  5. Reboot will be required
  6. New RouterOS features will be unlocked

If that list is accurate, only Winbox would been to be able to contact www.mikrotik.com to generate the new license key and place it into your account.

6

RouterOS doesn’t need Internet connectivity. Your WINBOX does

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and, AFAIR, upgrade is only possible via WinBox, not command prompt

8

AHA! Success! Thanks! My machine typically accesses the net through a proxy server that uses authentication. I put it in the proxy bypass rule set and it seems to be working!