Upgrading the hardware, reinsllation require?

RouterOS General
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after I change my CPU and mainboard (which the vga/lan/sound is onboard), do I have to reinstall the routeros or i should work fine?
thanks

2

don’t change the HDD and you’ll be fine. HDD is all that matters

3

What you could run into is that interfaces have to reconfigured or re-named (especially the onboard lan), but that should be all…

4

thank you guys, I’m going to roof top now :slight_smile:

5

because of an hardware change (which i tested several times) I found out that I had to reconfigure / set the new interface on the following items:

  1. If you bridge , include the new interface on the bridge. INTERFACES → settings → bridge
  2. enable the ip settings on the new interface. IP → ADDRESSES. You’ll see an ip range with an unknown interface. just click on it en select the new interface
  3. If you use Queues in the queue-tree, set the right interface on these queues.
  4. I also found out (just 1 time) that you’ll have to clear the arp table manually on other MT’s , but theoreticaly this isn’t necessary
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it’s probably because the MAC addresses change and the interface names can get lost. yes, you should also be aware of this fact