I bought two new Intel Pro 1000 Gigabit nics for my 2.9.42 Mikrotik router.
Currently I have Ether 1 and Ether 2, both Intel Pro 100 (onboard and PCI). Plan is to power down, disable onboard, replace PCI with Gigabit card and insert another Gigabit card next to it in another PCI slot.
Question is how will the Mikrotik behave? Its currently using Intel Pro/100 driver. I’m guessing it will detect and start using the Gigabit driver (possibly the same driver) for both interfaces? Will I need to be present at the console to reassign ip addresses or will the gigabit interfaces take over positions Ether 1 and Ether 2 so that worst case we just swap the cables between the two nics to get the WAN and LAN correct?
I’m 1500 miles away from this router, and the engineer that will be upgrading the network cards does not know how to configure Mikrotik.
I am not sure my answer is correct, but as far as i remember when you change phisical interface first visit this http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/guide/driver.php
And you must little change to config it, cos your config containing address or information for, e.g: mac-address, rename it from default name...blah..blah..blah...
While your first statement indicates you won’t have this problem, the problem is submitted for the benefit of others:
IFF one side of the MikroTik is connected to a Cris_co 7206 FE card and you use the aforementioned manufacturer’s 100/1000 pro server cards, all negotiations will fail IFF the FE cards in the Cris_co 7206 are of a revision level prior to Cris_co getting the negotiations correct(IMHO).
We tried introducing a L_i_n_k_s_y_s 5 port switch inline between the 7206 FE and the MT 2.9.42 and it still failed for a known good switch.
We tried introducing a L_e_v_i_t_o_n 5 port switch inline between the 7206 FE and the MT 29.42 and it still failed for a known good switch.
What did work was a high $ switch inline.
FWIW, we believe this to be a problem with the latest IOS and early FE cards; we do not believe this to be a MikroTik problem.
rgds/ldv
N.B. to heavy handed censor^h^h^h^h^h^hmoderator with the power to delete this post: not a single manufacturer’s name was correctly spelled save MikroTik, intentionally rendering the searchability with regard to competitors somewhat left of fruitless. As Joe Friday used to say on Dragnet, “Just the facts, Ma’am.” Statistics of small numbers and such are admitted.