I have configured my ccr-1036 12g 4s to be a WISP router many times and I keep running into a problem I can seem to figure out. I use several TW modems and have tried to configure them to be in port 1-4 (as wan connections with load balancing) and port 5 as the internal 10.10.x.y LAN port. But for some reason the new “QUICK SET” screen always shows my local network as my 2nd TW modem and ip. When I use the quick set screen to change it back, it changes my { ip/addresses/ether2 to my 10.10.x.y IP again. WHAT THE HELL? No where can I find in the billions of pages of documentation that port 2 HAS TO BE the LAN port. What am I missing here?
Forget about QuickSet, it is just a quick setup tool for something as simple as a single-WAN home router. What you describe doesn’t fit the QuickSet’s abilities.
I understand that. My concern is more along the lines of , “is it breaking something”. As long as my IP’s, ports, masquerade rules, mangle rules are right, then the quick set config isn’t hidden-ly breaking something. Cause I am having issues. I just want to make sure the incorrect “local network” on the quick-set isn’t a clue to “whatever” the real problem is.
if you have used quick set make a backup of you config (using export comand) to a .rsc editable file, then review the file to see if there is some configuration you dont want to be there
On RouterOS you can use whichever port you want for whatever use.
There’s nothing that says that “port 2 must be a LAN port”.
I’ve never used the QuickSet wizard so I don’t know what it does exactly, but it sounds that there’s your problem.
Just configure the router manually however you need. You don’t need to use QuickSet.
By the way, one thing that one may need to consider when choosing which port is what, is how are the ports internally connected.
You can see that by checking the block diagram on each routerboard’s page on http://www.routerboard.com
Some routerboards with many ports may have some of them in a switch group and some directly connected to the CPU. So depending on the workload and the block diagram of the router one may need to check which port is used for what purpose to achieve the best results out of it.
In your case (CCR1036-12G-4S), every port is directly connected to the CPU so it doesn’t make any difference which one you will use for each purpose.
http://i.mt.lv/routerboard/files/CCR1036-12G-4S-160609132425.png
Just configure the router manually and it will work fine.