Hello all.

Can someone please shed a light on an issue.

ROS ver: 6.27
board-name: CCR1036-8G-2S+

Mikrotik states in 'ip route' that route-tag:
in http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Route

So 4294967295 (the highest number you can get using 32 bits format)

But when i try to apply a value the limit is: 65535 (highest number you can get using 16 bits format)

No matter what integer value i choose in 'route-tag' it just vanishes when applied.

What am i missing here??

sidenote: i really need route-tag in static to distribute it over ospf.

Thanks.

I replicated this on a virtual x86 image running v6.27 as well.

Furthermore, setting the tag on the command line gets the same behavior - command is accepted, but ignored.

The way the documentation is written, it sounds like static routes don't have a tag attribute in ROS.
This is puzzling, because tags are very useful. We use tags to mark static routes we want to redistribute into OSPF, so I completely understand what you're trying to do.

Is this a bug or a missing feature?

That's exactly the point ZeroByte

We overcome (for the moment) this issue using another (not so graceful) way.

Oddly enough using 'route-comment' matching the static route comment works. ( not in the example )

But it's interesting that when you try to see the received routes ROS knows what a 'route-tag' is.
I think it's a necessity having 'route-tag' working Mikrotik.

We overcome (for the moment) this issue using another (not so graceful) way.
Oddly enough using 'route-comment' matching the static route comment works. ( not in the example )

That idea had crossed my mind but I didn't pursue it further. Interesting to see that it works, and if I start putting Mikrotiks into the network at my current company, then I'm going to remember this is how to do it.

I suspect that Mikrotik's position on this will be "the functionality you want is achieved, so use comments and don't worry about tags" so I wouldn't hold my breath for route tags on static routes.

"the functionality you want is achieved, so use comments and don't worry about tags"

Thank for your words ZeroByte, unfortunately i guess they'll take that path