Nope. Just had to release some frusteation which built up by your (not so rare) excursions to the beginner mode (while blaming @sob and me for failing to educate you).
And, BTW, beaches in Albania are waaay better than beaches in Canada, so some day I might make that trip you’re suggesting.
Not blaming just pointing out the facts LOL and Sob is patient and knows eventually I will crack and learn something…
Albania, not after watching TAKEN a few times… although someone I know is very close to some Albanian folks and they remind me of my spanish roots, very European outlook on life.
Gotta luv our Babushka’s, be they slavic or spanish or albanian.
I admit, there are some things that I didn’t yet explain at least five times, which seems to be required minimum. 
It does average out just like real life…sometimes once sometimes 70 times.
That’s one problem with forums as a place to learn. Because very likely a question has been asked and answered repeatedly, but finding the answer isn’t always easy.
The advanced search in the forum could use some examples. For people in the USA, brackets means something different than what we call parenthesis.
Example:
That’s indeed a problem. Personally I’ve given up on forum search engines (not only Mikrotik’s) long ago, I simply use my favourite internet search engine and instruct it to (primarily?) search through specific site.
And just to jump back to my post which somehow prompted @sob to respond: I expect that somebody with 7k+ posts reads at least as many and remembers some. Indeed I used a bit political incorrect language, but that user tends to do it a lot as well, I’m just adjusting to the friendly tone
Naw, I think it was the Xanax that helped 
Sometimes I want to reply to a question with “check my posts, I wrote about this exact thing not long ago”, but it wouldn’t work. It takes even me some time to find it, and I have at least rough idea what I wrote and what words I used. It could help to build some index as I go, but that feels too much like work.
@mkx: I wouldn’t worry about being a little rough when it comes to @anav. If you knew what goes through my mind when I find out that he slipped back in some area where I was sure that’s no longer possible… On the upside, once he learns something and as long as it sticks, he can do lot of good. We just need to find a way how to optimize it. For example, explain to him that it’s allowed to point out obvious mistakes without seeing whole config, that would make him more efficient too.
Unfortunately, i have this requirements/engineering streak in me that demands context and mostly because I dont understand many complex scenarios due to my lack of experience and knowledge. Also, it is clear to me that many times the OPs lack of understanding on a basic rule in part X of a config, means there are probably multiple issues. Where I really miss the boat is someone who is experienced and is asking a specific question and provides enough info for that tidbit, that both you and mkx understand, but I am no where near close to that point… but cannot wait forever for you to show up, so I just start the ball rolling. ‘Check my posts’ is why I started writing user articles, to ensure that I have a reference to remember/review and to be able to point to something…
My apologies for causing both you and mkx the drinking problems or ulcers
If I ever make it to a MUM, I will be sure to ask Normis to setup a dunk tank, we can raise funds for Ukraine rebuild… and you can exorcise the ansgt…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcIAUvm0NnQ
@anav: I mean things like this, which is perfect example. If you read just first third of the post, then with your level of knowledge you should be pretty sure what’s the problem. True, the next part about VPN is confusing, but following rule is very clear and it confirm initial suspicion.
OMF LOL, Geez that rule aint right!!!
when I looked at that the first time I saw okay hes port forwarding to a web server, (not that I think thats a good idea at all) and didnt notice the issue with the rule.
NO in-interface=ether1 and thus all traffic from everywhere was being sent to that IP regardless of source…
Now it makes sense LOL…
But ----> you knew there was going to be a BUT didnt you !!!
Where there is one mistake (either due to carelessness or NOT understanding how the rules work) chances are there are others in the config, and why do anything half assed? and hence I would have still asked to see the rest of the config… You are like the plumber who fixes one leak at a pipe and walks away, whereas I want to inspect the rest of the pipes, remind me NOT to call you when I have plumbing issues. 
Heck, I might event start providing counselng as well as config recommendations while I am at it…
Now dear Sob, please let me help you with your feelings of inadequacy when dealing with untrained mikrotik users!
I admire your enthusiasm. I prefer to just give pointers. If user asks about , I’ll give info about . If I know that will be also needed, or if what’s actually needed is and not , I’ll write that. If I see something very wrong in posted config, and the question wasn’t about that, I’ll mention it, but it’s up to user to react and ask about it further (or not). Completely fixing everyone’s configs is not only very time consuming, but sometimes it’s complete waste of time, because not everyone is interested.
I hear ya, many times I think, should I or shouldnt I… but its like anything else, fixing errors sooner rather than later is always cheaper in the long run on resources be it time or money.