I just bought an hAP ac³ some time ago. Then I upgraded with ROS 7.12 firmware.
However, when this router is shutdown, it will boot up again after a while.
How to solve this problem? Or is it okay to unplug the power cable directly without having to shutdown?
From my experience, nothing bad has happened yet, by simply removing the power source. Are you powering it by poe-in or dc-jack? Does the same behavior happen if downgraded to v6?
Most (all ?) RouterOS devices can not be shutdown.
It reboots, never shuts down.
So if that’s what you want to do, some options:
- pull the plug (that was easy, no ?
) - If you got a programmable power plug: shut it down from there
- If your device is being powered through POE on port1, shut down power on the master device for that ethernet port (could be another Mikrotik device)
When doing this remote: be careful you ALSO have an option to ENABLE it again when it is a far far remote device !! If that device is the key to your local network and you’re network is gone, there is no way to enable it again but to go on site. Just saying.
Try:
/system shutdown
Please try it yourself.
Then see what happens.
Most devices will reboot.
And if you think of it, for a router it is pretty dangerous to shutdown at the risk of not being able to be powered on again remotely. So it actually makes sense.
Just tried on CubeG, the ether and wlan/w60g interfaces shutdown and stop transmitting until I power-cycle the router
Then that’s one of the exceptions to the rule
I personally never saw a full stop shutdown on Hex, Hap AC, HAP AC2, HAP AC3, Map, Maplite, Cap, CAP AC, …
Powered from dc jack
I also have hEX (RB750Gr3)
If I click the system menu > shutdown form winbox, this router will be in a halt state, and will not boot up again by itself. Unless the dc power source is cycled.
While on my hap ac3, the shutdown menu doesn’t seem to make the router in a halt state, this router will boot up again by itself.
OK, I’ll try that again this evening when I’m home on the devices which are there (could try it remotely but if it really shuts down, wife and son will kill me for cutting down their internet )
The phenomenon that some devices reboot rather than shutdown when you do “/system shutdown” is actually a bug that affects ARM architecture devices.
It should be fixed in a future version, it is already fixed in 7.2rc3.
I stand corrected.
Hap ac3 with ROS7.2rc3, shutdown does effectively what it is supposed to do.
Shuts down and power reset needed to bring it back to life.
And to be honest, I am not so certain I like that from happening …