As it is clear ROS 5.2 is NOT a stable release, I request that it should be removed from stable status. I have lost my customers confidence since the 5.XX stable release’s.
MT must learn what the word STABLE means. Why are they not able to test out there version properly before issuing a stable status.!
These most recent ping timeout issues and packet loses are quiet easy to replicate.. Why Why Why..
it is stable.
what is not working for you specifically?
there are no known issues with ping time or packet loss. did you report those issues to mikrotik?
Read some of the latest responses from your posters..
Packet timeouts on ethernet ports from RB 5.XX to RB 5.xx and RB 5.xx to different vendor ethernet ports..
As many other posters have said.. There is No supout file created and no log entries other than ethernet link up and down and link staus as being stated as half duplex when the link is selected to be full duplex.. That was with ROS 5.1. in 5.2 the link status is correct with same issues.
Tell me the support ticket number that was assigned to you, and I will check the status of your report.
Forget trying to be formal about this.. There is nothing to send over in a support ticket.!
Just read latest posts here http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=51251&start=50
as well as some others around the forums..
I am able to re create this issue on a number of RB433’s and 493’s aswell as my damn rb1100 to 433
plug any of these Rb’s together via ether port (most often with ether 2) ROS 5.XX ping test each board to each other bandiwdth test one direction some load like 5 to 10Mb and watch the timeouts !
if you didn’t email mikrotik, mikrotik doesn’t know about your issues. this is not an official bugtracker, this is a user forum. not all topics are monitored.
Well my apologies. If any of you folks have a chance to review some posts complaining about ROS 5.2 and serious loss of packet loss, this would be appreciated.
Try to re create issue as I have on numerous different boards.
please give links to those posts, as I have no information about such issues
Link provided in previous posts in this very thread.. Instead of taking the time which is appreciated to retrieving previous comments about this issue and similar issues with ROS 5.XX, why not take a few mins and re create the problem as described in my last post.. This seems like a more efficient solution to the problem at hand. Just give the interface on each board an IP, load them up with 5.2, start with lets say a bandwidth test limited at 5Mb both directions, start ping tests on both boards towards each other and watch the timeouts every few seconds..
I just downgraded 6 boards that I can re create this issue on to 4.17 and re doing this very same configuration and test, I have eliminated the timeouts but now have no more tdma. 
Just saying.
Normis, the 5.2 release thread has a few posts about high CPU loading. 6 posts (including mine) out of the 84 posts are about this. Looks like a number were sent to support aswell (including mine)
Something is fishy with CPU loading and ROS 5.x, I wouldn’t pull it’s status as stable but take a serious look into it and release 5.3 if you have to.
My ticket is 2011050966000018 FYI
Something is also fishy about timeouts, lets try and stay on this timeout issue as it can easily be re created..
when you see that packetloss, make supout.rif and send to support with description of what was happening. even if you think supout.rif file doesn’t contain anything that can help, many times it actually does!
Do you think its possible to take 5 mins and plug to RB’s together and to the test? As I have just downgraded my production links back to 4.17 to resolve this issue and im not taking the chance to re upgrade all the RBs just before everyone starts work here soon in my city as I am a commercial provider. I can send you 2 RB’s if you dont have any to test with.. I mean, whats 5 mins of your time to potentially find first hand the problem yourselves.. Or maybe you just do forum support and actually dont touch hardware, in which case, my bad..!
we don’t have packet loss or ping issues in any of our routers, and we have all models deployed in different networks. that’s why I am saying that this is an isolated issue and we need those files.
I myself reported the ping problem maybe 3-5 weeks ago first. It is present in all 5.X versions, including the RC-s that I tested. It is really the filling up of the route cache that materializes as a ping problem first and blackout later.
The problem seems to be present not only in x86, but routerboard based installations as well. I agree that you do have to have a fair size of userbase to be able to replicate this… but again that’s precisely why we use ROS and not a SOHO device. It will not happen if you install ROS for home use or casual testing with a few people … but this is why we are here testing this out for you. We are sending supouts and are doing hundreds of hours of testing different scenarios. I’m sure that others have done the same, but if you serch for my posts, you will see that I indeed put in the time required to test and publish my findings.
It is a real problem … maybe not in your code, but the kernel you use … in which case I guess the problem is bigger than expected.
GL
tell me the ticket number and i will check the status
[Ticket#2011041766000095] Possible bug report + supout.rif
Thanks
GL
Any updates on this issue or the previous posters ticket?
MT. Please acknowledge these problems so we can move on with our lives and stop generating supouts, screenshots, statistics and posts. A rough timeline for a fix would be nice too, so we can decide if we want to downgrade to 4.X for a few months (years) or we should convince our clients to stay on 5 for another few days until a stable version is published.
I just had a 5.x x86 (intel atom) based router lock up after 3 weeks and after a year uptime on 4.something . This router was truly used only for SOHO purposes (NAT, port forward) - so memory leaks are affecting smaller traffic devices as well, but maybe not as spectacularly.
Thanks
GL
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