RouterOS version 6.42.3 has been released in public “current” channel!
Before an upgrade:
Remember to make backup/export files before an upgrade and save them on another storage device;
Make sure the device will not lose power during upgrade process;
Device has enough free storage space for all RouterOS packages to be downloaded.
What’s new in 6.42.3 (2018-May-24 09:20):
*) lte - fixed automatic LTE band selection for R11e-LTE;
*) wireless - improved client “channel-width” detection;
*) wireless - improved Nv2 PtMP performance;
*) wireless - increased stability on hAP ac^2 and cAP ac with legacy data rates;
To upgrade, click “Check for updates” at /system package in your RouterOS configuration interface, or head to our download page: http://www.mikrotik.com/download
If you experience version related issues, then please send supout file from your router to support@mikrotik.com. File must be generated while router is not working as suspected or after some problem has appeared on device
Please keep this forum topic strictly related to this concrete RouterOS release.
I have started testing this version. So far the issue of one client having high download causing slowness to other clients has been resolved. Mikrotik great and good work on this. We are going somewhere now
One question is dynamic downlink ratio behaviour changed? In 6.42.2 with ratio of 60% ap can shoot to 90-100mbps download speed to a client but now in 6.42.3 I can only shoot to around 60-70mbps. I changed the ratio to 70% in 6.42.3, I can see the same results as 6.42.2(with 60% ratio) but with better sharing between clients than previous versions
Dear friend, I have been testing with dynamic downlink ratio and I have not noticed any difference in altering this value. Do you really notice difference in leaving it at 50%? Thank you
I have a ccr1009 with flash partitioned into 2 partitions. So each of that flash parts are of 32 Mb, which was ok for me so far.
After recent upgrade to 6.42.1 I found all of my flash almost taken by unknown (invisible) files or data. Right now I have only 10 Mb of flash and the upgrade to 6.42.2 needs ~15Mb. I asked this in different topic and got http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/low-disk-space-while-disk-is-almost-free/119713/4 this answer saying I’m not along with the problem, so looks like 6.42.1 upgrade script won’t do its job well, or something. Not sure is this can be more widespread or not, and surely don’t know if this can happen to any new version.
What should I do? The device is on remote location so it’s not an option to netinstall it. So far I can not upgrade to any new version.
How can I clean up these extra files/data? If I format the flash then the device won’t boot afterwards, isn’t it?
I can’t guarantee that this’ll work for you, but it worked for me (try at your own risk, and try on some local devices first):
Download the “all packages” zip for your device’s architecture from the Mikrotik website
Extract the .npk files you need (at least “system”, and additionally wireless, mpls, etc.). You only the ones that are currently enabled on the device and/or that you are using features from (for instance, you don’t need to get the “dhcp” one if you don’t have a DHCP server or client on the device).
Upload those NPK files to the router
Reboot
On my devices, this replaced the big “bundle” system package (which contains ppp, dhcp, mpls, routing, etc.) with the smaller “unbundled” one (which only contains “system”, the other packages are separated out), and it also upgraded the other packages and their configuration.
In tunnel going multicast traffic in direction from A to B.
On side “B” I do EoIP tunnel disable, it show like not active.
Multicast flow stop on side “B”, but income traffic on my WAN port
on side “B” is still going.
Why so, if EoIP tunnel not active and no connection through EoIP?
Traffic on side “B” on WAN port stop going only if I disable EoIP tunnel on
source side “A”.
The only thing I need is some confirmation from someone wise that repartition won’t crear up whole disk so ROS won’t be able to load.
I will do the backup but it is useless as device is on remote place. And the leakage is something that should be commented by Mikrotik engineers I think
You most notice the dynamic downlink radio settings is really doing something when your APs are getting close to client throughput saturation (such as peak hours when everybody is doing something). Under light throughput loads (non-peak usage periods), you should not normally see much of a difference.
I normally use a setting of 75 or 80 percent on all of my APs. This mostly helps when everybody is doing something where you want near 80 percent of traffic to be from Internet to clients. A setting of 20 percent kills client download speeds during peak usage but boosts the 1 percent of clients who are uploading.
