v6 rc6 released

RouterOS General
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We did everything we could to stop the world from ending. Shipped the CCRs, released RC6, sent you all a newsletter. Looks like it worked :slight_smile:

What’s new in 6.0rc6 (2012-Dec-21 12:20):

*) fixed problem - netinstall for x86 did not work;
*) lcd - added take-screenshot command;
*) lcd - fixed calibration, fresh boards no longer require recalibration;
*) optimize memory usage - makes 32Mb routerboards more stable;
*) support BandRich modems with newer firmware;
*) ipsec - authentication using certificate store but without CRL checking for now;
*) added feature - flash can be partitioned on routerboards and
separate versions can be installed on each of them (requires latest firmware);
*) fixed problem - after restoring backup, it gets restored again on every reboot;
*) improved router performance when dhcp client/server present in system;
*) fixed vlan on bond after reboot;
*) fixed occasional queue kernel crash;

http://mikrotik.com/download

Problems with MPLS IPv4 VPN
RX Drops in RC's
Problems with MPLS IPv4 VPN
RouterOS v6rc11
About OSPF
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what is a bandrich modem?

By the way, I was hopping you would have done something about the end of the world. After all MikroTik rooting the world (or is it routing?)

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LTE/3G

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I see, thank you.
I saw you have changed the download page as well. This is better than previous.

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And again don’t work igmp proxy :\

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we have not fixed it, that’s why

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So sad :frowning:

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There is partition in winbox, my rb1200 64MiB…what for that feature?

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I recommend you to try the new Partition feature, if your router has enough NAND space.
Manual: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Partitions
Screen Shot 2012-12-21 at 3.22.22 PM.png

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Yes agreed, partitioning is very cool, manual is here:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Partitions

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Very nice developments both hardware wise (CCR !) and software (v6) from mikrotik over the past few months. Keep the innovation going on guys ! Thanks !

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One thing that I liked before ROSv5.0 was the possibility to close a window within winbox by double clicking on the upper left corner of the window. Do you think it can be reintroduced, since it is still rc release?

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where I can download all packages ?
routeros-6.0rc6

Thanks.

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in the ALL link …

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Thank you normis
Found it.

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Guys, a couple of releases ago access point mode was slow and dodgy.. It seems that with the latest releases all works fine.

Attached a screenie of the throughput on a RB493G with 2 pigtail antenna’s connected to a r52hn card. Client is a Dell laptop with an Intel wifi link 5100 copying some files across SMB..

Very nice now.. Peaks at 23’ish MB/s via Wireless.

THANKS. Keep up the good work.
throughput.png

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My CCR1036-12G-4S is getting constant Rx Drops on Bridge, VLAN and some physical interfaces. This happens with both, ROS6.0rc5 and ROS6.0rc6 versions. Now, when I upgraded my RB433AH with ROS6.0rc6, it started to the same thing - show Rx Drops on one of the interfaces (incoming Internet). I never had anything like that with this specific RB433AH. Could it be dropping certain frames? Does anyone else see the same behavior with new version?

grg

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Do you have something that actually doesn’t work or is it another “counter panic”? AFAIK it is new Linux Kernel feature it is now indicating packets that he don’t know what to do with them - in short it is normal. only thing i manage to see is that i see lots of them on interface that have client PCs on them.

  • what are your impressions??
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I would like to post some testing I did with partitioning on a RB750

  1. Updated RB750 from ROS 5.16 to ROS 6.0rc6. After that upgraded firmware also.
  2. Partitioned the HDD in two partitions. Procedure was normal. After reboot the Partition menu showed
    two partitions of the same size, 32MB.
  3. Tried “Copy to”, with success.
  4. Tried “Active Partition”. Active option gives the possibility to boot to the partition you mark as active after reboot.
  5. I wanted to try to revert to one partition, but there was not such an option, or at least if I chose 1 partition, it will not
    partition the HDD because it needs at least two.
  6. Tried downgrade to 5.22 with /system package downgrade, hmm no success at all, although I figured it would not go smoothly
    since the HDD had two partitions. The good thing was that the router rebooted to the “next” partition as the first one failed. So I just
    copied the second partition to the first one, and router was back to normal. This is how it is designed to work.
  7. So tried netinstall, since netinstall does format and partitioning of HDD, i thought this was the way to revert back to one partition.
    It was a pain … Netinstall at first with ROS 5.22, install was successful according to netinstall, but after reboot no way to access
    the router. Tried netinstall with ROS 6.0rc6, netinstall failed to transfer system package. After some tries, I saw that netinstall with
    ROS 5.22, was successful, but the router was inaccessible after reboot. So I did a hard reset, and after that managed to get access
    to the router.

Overall, I think the new partition option is great, as I tested it, it worked as expected. Although the downgrade was very hard, I guess
no one would want to go back to older versions. One thing I would like though, is the possibility to revert back to one partition, after
one creates two (or more) of them

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