I set-up RouterOS 5.14 on a RB1200 to route traffic to a specific IP to a specific interface on the RB1200 and I connected a server (ftp, http, etc) to that interface. I can reach the server but whenever I transfer a file vie FTP the connection is fine for about 1 second and gone for the next 10 seconds, than back up for a second, and gone again…
The same thing happens the HTTP or SMB connections (i tested this using different server). Both server used to run fine before installing the new FW.
So, any idea what I might be missing here? What could I do to identify the problem.
Hi,
I did some further testing but still could not figure out whats wrong:
I’m trying to set-up routing to a host connected to a specific interface. So I added a static route for the hosts destination address and specified the interface as the gateway.
I can ping the host from the router but my pings are answers for about 10 seconds (0ms delay) and timeout (more then 1000ms delay) for the next 10 seconds.
What could be wrong? I just don’t get it.
The only thing I found that might be related is this comment regarding the general routing property in the Wiki:
“check-gateway (arp | ping; Default: “”): Periodically (every 10 seconds) check gateway by sending either ICMP echo request (ping) or ARP request (arp). If no response from gateway is received for 10 seconds, request times out. After two timeouts gateway is considered unreachable. After receiving reply from gateway it is considered reachable and timeout counter is reset.” (source: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Route)
I didn’t set the check-gateway variable but maybe the router thinks the gateway (ether2 in my case) is dead and disables the route for 10 seconds…