I'm new to Mikrotik and I wonder if their equipment can be managed with commands on a console port, like Cisco does?
I have a Mikrotik Cap AC and I see it has two Ethernet ports; may any of them be used as a console port out of band?
RoMON would let you do that, it uses a different ether-type and runs on Layer-2.ok, right now I wonder about this Cap AC device;) The only way to configure it is over IP? It has no USB port and there's no way to access it OOB over Ethernet.
If you're planning on using CAPsMAN, and you have wireless devices, they'd have one more "OOB method", of CAPs mode. If someone press the button for ~10 seconds at startup, they can be found and provisioned ("adopted") by the CAPsMAN controller. See https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/Reset+Button and https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/CAPsMAN.ok, right now I wonder about this Cap AC device
You can use the winbox application to configure it over layer2. Just click the mac address of the CAP in the list of neighbors, use the username admin, and leave the password blank. Of course this is if it is just oob and not configured any. No need for any ip information to get into it.This seems like terrible for an administrator; that I have to "enable" it before I can use it. Imagine if I had a Cisco access point and I had to set it up with IP before I could manage it; it would kind of defeat the purpose.
I do however see that there is a github page for a mac-telnet implementation; may I use this to connect directly from my computer?