I’ve got a pair of rb5009 on the bench for testing. I’m having routine lock ups on these. Even the port lights go out. Both units, in open air in a cool room. Uses stock 7.0.5, 7.1.1, 7.2rc1, and currently 7.2rc3.
This model seems downright non-functional.
What are you trying to do with yours? I’ve got a couple that haven’t presented any significant issues so far other than some small bugs I’m sure MikroTik will sort out. But your use may differ from mine.
They’re locking up just sitting on the bench. Current config is WAN<>RB5009(A) <> RB5009(B) <> WiFi Router. They’ll just lock up with really nothing going on.
Stock configuration or have you made your own. I’ve not heard of any issues like those you are describing and haven’t had issues like that myself in any way. Maybe your config is messed up somewhere. ???
uh, it’s all over facebook and reddit how these lock up and reboot. Basically a clean config with nothing but static routes configured. Plain as it gets.
I guess you got it all sorted out. It sucks. You just need to return it and go with D-link instead.
Can’t say I have specific issues. My RB5009 is running parallel next to my production RB3011 for a quite some time.
Altough I’m not intensively using the LAN-ports, I never ever had a “lock up” just like that from day 1. Now running 7.2RC3
But very simple config, no VLAN’s no routing-protocols etc. Classic “home user” environment.
A common newbie mistake is to do an OS-only upgrade. RouterBoard devices make a distinction between the OS and the boot firmware. Upgrading the OS gives you a copy of the new boot firmware, but it isn’t installed until you tell it to do so specifically.
I typically upgrade the OS alone, make sure it runs for a day or so, then upgrade the boot firmware.
RB5009 is rock solid here.
Only missing some features.
When you say lock up, you mean your units completely freeze and require a reboot ?
Looks indeed like a SW instability if both show this behavior.
Too much coincidence for both units having the same HW problems.
The first thing to do then is to make sure the SW has the correct versions.. and that’s OS a well as FW as pointed out above.
Routeros and firmware match. Full hardware freeze, even the ports go hard down.
Other option then, since you moved from version to version.
Export config from both devices
Reset both with default config
Copy back line by line of the earlier exported config making sure to omit those lines already present from default config unless you absolutely know why you need it.
Just had to do this myself to solve an issue I assume is a result from such upgrade after upgrade after … you get the idea.
Same config on top of default settings for the last version installed and everything works again.
Shame the device does not have a serial port to see what happens at the time of the freeze, do you see if there is any auto-supouts generated from around this time and what does the log say the reason for shutdown/reboot is?
Do you notice any patterns yet with the reboot, i.e if there is X amount of days before the devices reboot etc? As well as this I know there had been some issues with romon in the past causing random lockups like this, do you happen to have this enabled currently and if so can you disable it for a while and see if this might fix the issue?
Lastly, how are you powering the device, are you using the supplied PSU?
Supplied PSU on both. Zero logging output or supout file.