This bothers me for a while and I finally have to ask. There’s this thing: https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Detect+Internet Which in short “categorizes monitored interfaces into the following states - Internet, WAN, LAN, unknown, and no-link”. At first sight, it seems that it surely must…

I have no clue I always set mine to NONE! :slight_smile: Until Sindy says its useful I will continue to ignore it.

I had used it once, initially, but I disabled it after one software update where I got RB4011 screwed due to detect internet swapping interfaces in interface-list, which caused being locked out due to firewall. My reason of using it was that when using MikroTik app, detect internet gives you an eas…

My very first Tik was an SXT LTE and seeing how much data volume that “feature” consumed on a rather limited monthly allowance, I switched it off. No need to waste volume on such a process ! Later I saw that on most threads here it was almost unisono recommended to switch it off. So for me: defau…

Detect Internet = “Try that list for see if the interfaces listed are LAN, WAN or Internet” If used with default group WAN, LAN or default all / dynamic / static can cause a mess… The correct way to use it, if is really wanted, is to create separate interface groups to do each/wanted test. Exampl…

There’s no problem with what it does, it’s what’s described in manual. What’s not clear to me, how is it useful? Actual use case where it helps with something.

By now you know, after reading thousands of my posts, that I like programming / scripting and experimenting, (and that I’m also a dkhd, I know…, I know…) But jokes aside, I can’t think of any way to use it…

Came here searching for the same question…

one “useful” use of detect-internet is consume up much cpu resources when enabled on all interfaces on a router running PPPoE server with many active users (many interfaces)

I found only one situation where it worked well - when I had to deploy a device to a user who was unable to plug things correctly. With detect internet, it did not matter where they plug WAN. any other scenario imho is better manually configured.

Interesting, do you have any more details about that? I’m trying to figure out exact config, but no luck so far.

What is Detect Internet for?

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