Would be nice if winbox had a vertual mode.
For example:
When ping from computer does not reach a distant MT Router, but local router can. (due to misconfiguration [booboos])
Could Winbox have a capability to comunicate with the remote router by accessing ssh on a local router to connect to the remote site.
This would save me a long drive or two.
Todd
you can do hat already
have no problems at all using this...
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/sy ssh 192.168.25.2 user=user port=45345
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this would be extremly usefull... none of our CPE units have a routable IP address (it only provides local access to the tower for auto-upgrade purposes). we winbox into the tower and telnet into the customers's CPE if we ever need to check something. the ability to proxy the winbox session would be very handy, as many issues could be handled by our level 1 staff if we had a simple to use gui for them to look at on the CPE side (command line is a little too much for some of the guys)...Yes..
Often you can get a connection from within the router, but not from the PC you have connected to the router. It would be nice to have a relay of sorts so that winbox can connect to a remote router by accessing the immediate routers ssh and not a direct from PC ssh.
Loads of ways around it already , if your CPEs have a web interface ,
SSH into the tower instead of winboxing , and just forward port 80 over it , then your staff can just put " localhost " in the webrowser .
If your CPE are Mikrotik boxes, just forward port 8291 over the tunnel as well , then you will have winbox and access to the graphs etc.
Just in case anyone doesn't know how:
Download this :http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/lat ... /putty.exe
run it ,
put the ip of the tower where it says " Host Name " at the top
click on " Tunnels" on the left side
For web-based CPE
in the "Destination" box put the ip of the CPE:80 eg 10.1.2.3:80
in the "Source Port " box put 80
click open , login as your usual tower admin user/pass , then put
"localhost" in your webrowser and you should be able to login to the CPE.
SSH into the tower instead of winboxing , and just forward port 80 over it , then your staff can just put " localhost " in the webrowser .
If your CPE are Mikrotik boxes, just forward port 8291 over the tunnel as well , then you will have winbox and access to the graphs etc.
Just in case anyone doesn't know how:
Download this :http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/lat ... /putty.exe
run it ,
put the ip of the tower where it says " Host Name " at the top
click on " Tunnels" on the left side
For web-based CPE
in the "Destination" box put the ip of the CPE:80 eg 10.1.2.3:80
in the "Source Port " box put 80
click open , login as your usual tower admin user/pass , then put
"localhost" in your webrowser and you should be able to login to the CPE.