Is there anywhere a Step by Step Idiots guide for idiots like myself.
I have just spent the morning trying to get into the router sofwtare through my browser to try and use Winbox.
Problem? Do not know the IP Address of the Nic Card that the Sofwtare has given to my interface and therefore do not know the Router Address I have to specify in my browser to get to the Sofwtare and hopefully continue to start using WinBox.
Anybody willing to help??
Ernest
do you have access to it with a monitor and keyboard? then sit down and configure the IP address there …
Conect router to one switch with your PC.
Connect to router using MAC-Winbox, here is description:P
http://www.mikrotik.com/docs/ros/2.9/guide/winbox||0.35282074613284803
As well, you may type MAC-address to Connect to field, and than login is admin, no password.
but first to do this you need a winbox tool itself. i suppose you can get one from demo2.mt.lv
Thanks. Hav etried everything I read but still noat managing. Do you know the magic words?
Thank you all for your sugegstions. Have tried everything but still no success.
Tried Winbox with MAC address of the Nic Card through a switch. No success.
Tried configuring IP address to Router Nic Card…still no success trying to connect to Router
Any other sugegstions would be most welcome. I know taht MT have good products but I cannot beleive it is so difficult to get over this first hurdle.
connect keyboard and monitor. if it shows login prompt, write there usernae “admin” and press [enter] key when asked for password. if it does not show the login prompt at all, tell us what happens on the screen.
How to connect using MAC if router does not use default port 80 for access but something else?
mac access (MAC-Telnet, MAC-Winbox) does not work on IP level.
however, it does not matter what port you have for ‘www’ accessing router on IP level, Winbox uses 8291 port (2.9 version).
OK here’s a real easy way to get into it…
Plug your computer into one of the ethernet ports on the router. Assuming you have a copy of winbox and you’re using the latest version of RouterOS, press the (…) and it should show a list of MAC addresses that are connected to the same segment. Select the MAC address and click connect and you’re in.
Another way is to serial into the device, assign an IP address to the ethernet interface then you can winbox/http to the device based on the IP address you assigned..
Once connected type the following to configure an IP address for a specified interface.
/ip address add address=<ipaddress>/<netmask> interface=<IF_Name>
If this is a routerboard, the default IP address is 10.10.10.1/24 on ether1.
If you still can’t get into it, read the documentation, because everything I just regurgitated is in the mikrotik docs!
I think we should write an beginners startup guide in the wiki.
edit: here, i wrote something for starters, feel free to improve it if you find it necessary: