I upgraded my firmware on my mikrotik ccr1072 to 6.45.6 and its been working fine. I was looking through the router and noticed under system a tab called routerboard. When clicking on it it said i was at firmware 6.44.1 and could upgrade to 6.45.6. Isnt that what i did already. Is routerboard something completely different then the firmware packages that i download and installed before.
Yes there are two places to upgrade. Not sure why either.
If one sets back to defaults I am assuming it goes back to the latter hidden board settings??
Whats the purpose of routerboard? If i dont upgrade will i not get full benefits of the package upgrades?
There are two pieces of software:
- RouterOS, in PCish that’s operating system much like Windows or Linux. It runs most of the time and performs what user expects from router.
- RouterBoot (the thingy under /system routerboard), in PCish that’s BIOS or whatever it’s called these days. It initializes hardware at boot time and loads RouterOS. After that it’s not running (until next boot)
In ancient times each of these two had different version, but at certain point of time MT decided to make versions follow each other.
Anyway, it’s recommended to upgrade routerboot whenever ROS is upgraded.
thanks for the info i appreciate it.