v5.3 released

RouterOS General
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What’s new in 5.3 (2011-May-25 15:19):

*) snmp - fix table get next with partial row keys;
*) snmp - respond from correct source address when multiple exist;
*) snmp - fix possible interface disappearing when walking ipNetToMediaTable;
*) snmp - fix possible memory leak;
*) ipsec - flush SAs and inform peer when rebooting or shutting down;
*) openvpn - fixed crash;
*) implemented terminal in WebFig;
*) implemented Skin mode in WebFig;
*) added support for more Broadcom Tigon3 based ethernet cards;
*) winbox - fixed byte to KiB, MiB and GiB conversion
(digit after decimal point could be a bit off);
*) console - align numbers right in tabular print output;
*) fixed RB450G, RB750G switch chip slow ethernet problem;
*) fix vlan disable not taking effect;
*) userman - fix Authorize.Net payment bypass;
*) userman - added profile option to overwrite shared users option
in user settings when profile is activated;
*) userman - fix db backup if it’s size exceeds 2G;
*) wireless - merged ht-extension-channels in to channel-width;

v5.3 changelog link broken
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what about rate selection / advanced, legacy/ in wireless - data rates ?

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We are still improving this rate selection algorithm, but you can now look how it is working for you now. We recommend it to test first on the test links before testing on production links.

RouterOS v5.4 released
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Hi,

I just updated my router. This is just a ‘cosmetic’ thing. When connecting to WebFig v5.3
and clicking on New Terminal. I’m getting a message like:

Firefox prevented this site from opening XX pop-up windows.

XX is incrementing every half of a second.

In Firefox, if I go to settings and click on view: ‘http://xx.xx.xx.xx/webfig/terminal.html?u8=0’
Terminal opens.

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Getting a 404 when trying to download the torrent file.

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Internet Explorer seems to work. Same issue here with Firefox

-tp

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Hi,

I’ve been testing with v5.3 userman for few hours - seems finally production ready:
“Start at first login” in profiles is fixed, along with some other problems.

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The Changelog does not mention anything about routing crshed that MT said will be fixed in 5.3.
Any changes there and with bridging in some cases where there were some problems?
We need bridging to work before we can upgrade our hotspots from 4.17.

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Very easy to fix on Firefox: just authorize the site using the button at the right of the message (where “site” means the RouterOS device) and there will be a nice terminal. Note that (at least on OpenBSD) you will probably get ten or so terminals next time you try to open one from WebFig, so I would you suggest closing Firefox, after authorizing the RouterOS device to open pop-up windows on your browser, and open Firefox again.

It is not a ROS bug, it is a Firefox feature used to prevent sites opening pop-up windows by default.

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no ipv6 listen for RA (SLAAC) on pppoe yet :frowning:

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Just fired it up in the lab, nothing major found wrong yet

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I upgraded one of our AP’s to see if this would help out with the timing related disconnects. Not only did it not help with that I now have issues with the Ethernet port dropping in and out on that AP :imp:

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Have you done firmware updates?

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Here are my results from upgrading from 5.2 to 5.3 on an RB411A Access point.

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Yes all up to date.

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Did you see this on 5.2?

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We had problems with timeout based disconnects but had no issues with the Ethernet port flapping. The disconnects are worse than they were with 5.2.

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It is observed such on rb411 in different places on v5.2 all well

05:41:54 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
05:42:51 interface,info ether1 link down
05:42:53 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
05:45:07 interface,info ether1 link down
05:45:09 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
06:41:42 interface,info ether1 link down
06:41:44 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
07:17:56 interface,info ether1 link down
07:17:57 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
07:23:37 interface,info ether1 link down
07:23:39 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
07:26:27 interface,info ether1 link down
07:26:29 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
08:04:27 interface,info ether1 link down
08:04:28 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
08:04:35 interface,info ether1 link down
08:04:37 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
08:07:32 interface,info ether1 link down
08:07:34 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
08:09:12 interface,info ether1 link down
08:09:14 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
08:12:09 interface,info ether1 link down
08:12:11 interface,info ether1 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)

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We had 5.2 deployed on a number of boards including the 411, didn’t see such an issue. Are you sure it’s not hardware/cable related?

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I never had any issues with 5.2 and ethernet ports either.

Well I should say on 411’s. I have had some issues with 5.x and 450G ethernet ports, not really flapping they just stop passing traffic and won’t negotiate a connection to another RB450G

On this AP as soon as I upgraded it to 5.3 the flapping started, I have downgraded it back to 5.2 and the flapping disappeared.