MikroTik

dfwair

Disabling hotspot and reenabling it does fix the problem temporarily. I rolled back to 6.20 and didn't give 6.22 a shot yet since the changelog doesn't indicate specifically that this issue has been resolved.

dfwair

Confirmed, I am seeing this exact issue on mine as well. Upgraded a site from 6.11 to 6.21.1 and DNS queries work fine for a while, then start timing out.

dfwair

Along with x86_64 would hopefully be the ability to unlock more than 2GB of memory which sure would be helpful with KVM on x86 hardware. I understand it's not a virtualization platform, but we could use more memory which would allow us to spread out our authoritative DNS servers and cache our offsit...

dfwair

I made a mistake. usb2 is the interface for you.

dfwair

The issue is that you must use it as a serial/ppp connection. Set up a PPP Client with the interface being usb0, set phone number to #777, and for username and password leave them blank. On my 720 I would set the username and password to web and it worked like that too. I forgot why I did that even....

dfwair

I am going to play with this and see what I can pull out of this information. The problem that I am running in to is that we have different service levels based on different prices, and the package set in the billing system sets those parameters. Where it gets even more confusing is that we have gra...

dfwair

For Hotspot RADIUS logins Mikrotik-Group selects a Hotspot User Profile and applies it to the user. I do use that and it works fine, the only caveat is that the login fails if you specify a profile that doesn't exist on the router. I do not send rate limit attributes, and the rate limit of the prof...

dfwair

Are you able to use Mikrotik-Group as a RADIUS attribute instead? That should work around that particular issue as long as the value is a User Profile set up in the way dssmiktik describes, and no simple queues should be created. Per the Mikrotik RADIUS Client wiki... Mikrotik-Group - Router local ...

dfwair

This interests me. I'm still in the process of testing Mikrotik as a Hotspot platform and haven't exceeded a few hundred users. Does anyone have any numbers on an RB1000 and how it performs with very large numbers of users taking out the simple queues as described above and replacing them with a qu...

dfwair

I think you're on the right track with too many queues. As each client authenticates, a new simple queue is created. Mikrotik says it's better to create a queue-tree queues instead of simple ones, as it's more efficient with multiple queues (I'll have to search where I found this). If there was a w...

dfwair

In our deployment of hotspots, I have found something that is really awkward. We have a PC-based MT box running 4.2 (Pentium 4/3GHz, single-core but with hyperthreading, Intel PRO/100 and Via ethernet) and we noticed that when the hotspot started getting 200-300 customers on it, we could run a ping ...

dfwair

I need some help with this problem. I have a very large deployment (10000 customers) that we are outfitting with MAC-authenticated Hotspot (Radius), MPLS/VPLS to a head end running the hotspot, and customers who have Vonage phone service with the new V-Portal device. I have had 3 complaints in a sec...

dfwair

This isn't fully completed yet, but will be soon. It's pretty cool with the inverted map behind it. The actual resolution is 5000x4000 for the map, but this has (obviously) been cut down a lot. The entire map has the whole coverage area on it that we cover and has probably another 40-50 tower locati...

dfwair

I'm pretty sure this has to be a feature that exists, but I can't find it. We have locations in our network where placing submaps under submaps make sense. For example, you have an overview which is the whole network, then you have Market A which has 3 towers as part of that market. Instead of tryin...

dfwair

Okay, I take back the earlier comment. It did end up restoring. 2 hours later the backup was restored to the RB1000 and started probing devices. It was amazing that it eventually started working. The RB433AH started rebooting on its own for no reason -- maybe the CPU was getting too hot? It continue...

dfwair

At least the web server is working in this version... Now the bigger problem (which I didn't have before with 3.1 that I can remember). I tried taking a backup of our Windows-based Dude and restoring it on both an RB1000 and RB433AH board with Dude, and on both platforms the backup is taken, but the...

dfwair

I just thought I would bump this and see if we could get an acknowledgment from the Mikrotik guys directly.

I have tried the Dude 3.1 package on both x86 (what I started this post with) and mipsbe and both have the same results.

dfwair

I set up Dude 3.1 on RouterOS 3.19 and I am getting problems accessing the web interface. It is set by default on port 81 and is unchangeable. On 3.0 we didn't have the problems with the web interface. The problem that is being experienced is when we try to log in to the web interface it locks once ...

dfwair

Is there already support for 4 byte ASN? Since we received the email from ARIN I have done a little research and I see nothing stating that Mikrotik is already compatible with 4 byte ASNs. If it is not supported, is there any future version that is being planned to support this, and will it be relea...

dfwair

I know that currently the main limitation appears to be that you cannot build a bandwidth management queue based on a MAC address. This would help tremendously for authenticating wireless clients and assigning so much bandwidth to their radio, compared to DHCP authentication. Since we are using a co...

dfwair

Well this is certainly strange. Upon doing the upgrade to 3.0rc13 and looking at the CPU Usage graphs, the system was running at 100% CPU utilization. I did the downgrade to 2.9.50 and disabled all the unnecessary packages, and now we're running 99.995% throughput end-to-end on the link, greater tha...

dfwair

I'm not here to argue, but it seems that based on XR specs if you are running a maximum of 2A (really 1.6A I believe) at 3.3v, that's only like 400mA @ 18V, with still plenty of power to run the board. It's just hard to find an 18V 2A power supply laying around. Especially when I have 20V 600mA powe...

dfwair

I don't believe my problem is with wireless PPS. We are running NStreme on the link and that has cleared up the link itself. It's just the handoff on the remote end from the Mikrotik RB532 board with the wireless cards to the Mikrotik RB532 router. We're doing these as separate boards so that each s...

dfwair

One more thing to note is that I just tried turning on IP Packing on the routers on each end of the link and the packet count dropped by about 50%, as well causing total dropped packets on a ping test to drop significantly. The problem with this is that now the routers on both ends of the link (also...

dfwair

I have been having some issues with packet loss on a point-to-point link so we replaced the RB532r5 board, replaced the radio cards, replaced power supplies, and numerous other things, then I found the nifty monitor-traffic command handy under 3.0rc13 since we were having the same problems under 2.9...

dfwair

Is there anything else I need to configure? Am I overlooking something? I read your instructions a few times, and I don't think I'm missing anything. Most likely you either have the wrong ethernet connection configured or you have the wrong subnet mask so it's not broadcasting correctly. Just my 2 ...

dfwair

If I am reading from the wiki correctly ( http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/BGP_Best_Path_Selection_Algorithm ) the router ID is one of the algorithms used to determine the best path. The problem that I am running in to is that paths with equal hops are going over the most expensive path for me to carry...

dfwair

What version of MT are you using ?

2.9.43

dfwair

Well, I figured it out and sure enough changeip was right -- but there was a trick. My setup is that I have a single head-end router that runs our BGP out to the Internet and then we have the rest of our network as a static IP from that. I have an out-filter for both of my connections and that filte...

dfwair

yes, you can use routing filters to prepend. Just specify the number of prepends you want. I am curious if the upstream upstream will merge the two or if each will show with a different as path. Sam When I use a prepend on an out-filter, does that modify the BGP announcements to show as a prepend? ...

dfwair

I dont understand the problem. Do you prepend only incoming Announcements and not the outgoing? When you prepend outgoing traffic on the bad line it should work. Stefan I guess I should lay out the problem a little better. I have 2 providers that I am linked to. Both of these providers give me a 10...

dfwair

I have a problem with having uplinks to 2 providers which both have links to one provider that is the same. I am sending out the amount of traffic I would normally expect (adjusted via prepend) but my incoming traffic on the lower-quality link is getting hammered. What I am trying to accomplish is t...

dfwair

I have had nothing but problems on the 8602 and RB112. I have had better luck with the RB532, but it was always providing a very weak signal level. Switched to SR2 cards and it works MUCH better.

dfwair

I just put it on a test box and it does appear to be working correctly, just didn't make it into the changelog.

dfwair

I ran into this and posted it last week. The conversation contained nothing of value, but here it is:

http://forum.mikrotik.com//viewtopic.php?t=11241

dfwair

Ahh. I will have to run the .31 upgrade then. As far as the existing issue, any Mikrotik developers looking into this? Any other reports? Any idea when it will be fixed?

dfwair

I have another bug altogether with BGP. I did an upgrade from 2.9.24 which was working well to 2.9.30, and then my BGP links, when built to provide full redundancy through a 3-tower loop, would cause a massive flood of traffic (6000-7000pkt/sec) on the network, which would make the watchdog on the u...

dfwair

I am glad that I am not the only one going crazy with this.

dfwair

I have a 2.9.31 system that was just put into production and I ran into what I believe is a critical bug in WinBox. I am running Ethernet in, Ethernet out of the box and when I was building the routes, through the box I was wondering why they were not coming up at Active/Static. After implementing t...

dfwair

It does look very interesting. So I guess you would add a user profile to the system and make sure they had a [LevelA], [LevelB], or [LevelC] marking on their queue name?

dfwair

When dealing with tons of simple queues, it would be nice to have a couple of additions to the simple queues including: - Profiles: The ability to create specific speed combinations that are given a common name, either after a service package that is being purchased, or a common set of rules, for ex...

dfwair

Wow. Had it been a snake, it would have bit me.

dfwair

When can we expect to see the routing-test package available for the MIPS architecture so we can run it on our RB532s?

dfwair

I think you're trying to make a tree from a rock.

This will not work.

dfwair

Are you using RADIUS to authenticate clients and PPPoE? You can set the bandwidth limiting preferences through the RADIUS controls. If they are static, a simple queue per user will suffice. As far as firewalling goes, it is going to be best to firewall the whole box. I am not sure how to do dynamic ...

dfwair

It's really dependent on the current topology of the network. If you currently have a single router at the head end of your network and everybody is bridged back to that, that is where you want to put it at. If you have the traffic routed all the way out to each tower/AP, then you want to put the AC...

dfwair

I know this should probably go on the Routerboard forum, but instead I thought more people here would know what was going wrong. I have an RB532 with RB564 on it. It has no wireless cards -- strictly Ethernet. Currently I have 4 devices plugged into it. It seems that all of the Ethernet ports except...

dfwair

Sam,

Tried to call, but got the voicemail system. Will try again in a few. Working with my field techs on finalizing some installations right now.

dfwair

In my config, I am using: add chain=bgp-out prefix=63.249.32.0/20 prefix-length=20 invert-match=yes action=discard set-nexthop=206.123.65.81 comment="" disabled=no Using the invert and discard, I am only getting that block to announce now. The setup I have done to test this, I set up other...

dfwair

I have confirmed that it works at both locations. I just have it set at the peer in this case.

dfwair

I am guessing you are probably in the US. I would like to speak to you as you seem to be more knowledgable at this stuff than I am. Any way to call you?

dfwair

That does seem to work just fine in standard BGP cases, just not in multihop cases. I know I am probably the only one running multihop and running into this issue.

dfwair

I seem to have no troubles with the BGP out filtering in my lab setup. Have you tested in both a lab setup and production and getting the same results?

dfwair

Magic, The only way I have found to do this so far is to put another router at the head end, and set BGP to statically route the full /19 to the router that you are currently distributing the subnets from. You will need to get another block that you are not announcing from your current ISP. This is,...

dfwair

In my testing, I had to use action=discard and use the invert-match on the outbound. Trying to phrase it correctly: IF Prefix IS NOT EQUAL TO 63.249.32.0/20 THEN DISCARD And then apply that to the outgoing filter. Does that clear up why I did it that way? In my test situation here, that did work cor...

dfwair

BGP stability is not an issue with Mikrotik. The configuration options are the problem! :D I will tell you, as a user that has been running our edge router since 2.8, and now we are at the point where BGP is necessary for us since we need to find another provider for reliability purposes, we are hav...

dfwair

Here is the config I am running: / routing filter add chain=bgp-out prefix=63.249.32.0/20 prefix-length=20 invert-match=yes action=discard set-nexthop=206.123.65.81 comment="" disabled=no / routing bgp instance set default name="default" as=32931 router-id=206.123.65.84 redistrib...

dfwair

I have noticed that when running multihop BGP, connected routes are not passed on. Perhaps I am not configuring it correctly? I think this is one more reason to have the network command. Aside from that, our ISP doesn't like the fact that we are announcing so many /28s and /29s now with the current ...

dfwair

I wish I had the lab setup done still. I will put it together again quickly and see what we get out of it. Then I will post the config I am using.

dfwair

I am just really getting frustrated with it. I put together a lab setup with 4 routers last night trying to prove my theory and it didn't work, and I keep trying to no avail. I have spent more time (money) on this than if I had just bought a Cisco to do the same functionality. Of course I will admit...

dfwair

Check the status of each peer and see if its established. Please enlighten me on how exactly this is done on the routing-test package. I have spent hours tonight working on this and I cannot get it to show that a BGP session is even established. Not only that but on my lab setup I cannot get a mult...

dfwair

Maybe a java version of the winbox? It would be great for Apple!

dfwair

I tried the routing-test package (2.9.8, btw) and I was unable to make any announcements. I got it set up to the best of my knowledge and didn't get anything out of it. Any more information you could share to help out?

dfwair

So much for the love of the GUI I suppose. I will try to do this tonight. Ugh.

dfwair

What are the specs of your machine? It sounds like either you don't have enough processing power or enough memory. We are using a P4 2.4 with 512 megs of ram, accepting routes from 2 providers (172000+ each) and using about 130 megs of ram for BGP. Although people say it can be done on 256 megs of r...

dfwair

We have 2 providers for our network, one that requires multihop, and another that doesn't. The one that does not require multihop is taking priority over the other one. In the routing table with only the multihop provider I am seeing all the route propogating with unknown listed for the interface. W...

dfwair

We are running a hotspot network with DHCP running, handing out public IP addresses, and it appears that one client is grabbing all of our IPs. The awkward thing is that all of the addresses in the Leases show the MAC address as 00:00:00:00:00:00, so there is truly no way to block this it looks like...

dfwair

No hotspot login page, fom my experience, indicates no connection to the internet (specifically a dns server failure). PPPoE users stay online. We have PPPoE running for people with routers as well. No data to authenticated users probably confirms this. I completely agree, but PPPoE working kills t...

dfwair

We have set up numerous hotspots now that all appear to be working, but we are having troubles with one network that is very complex. Here is a layout of what we have running: (1) Mikrotik w/ Hotspot, 1 WAN connection, 1 LAN connection, both Ethernet, and 1 remote PPP connection to our data center f...

dfwair

The testing was done using the MT bandwidth tester for my results. It was done after noticing slower than expected speeds on the link.

dfwair

I am having an issue that is similar, but not exact. I have a switch and a hub connected to each other. The switch is where all MTs get connected to and we achieve a max of 6Mbps from the MT on Ether1, but on Ether2 and Ether3, we achieve as high as 90Mbps. Tried connecting directly to a PC and got ...

dfwair

You should make a supout file and send it to support@mikrotik.com

Unfortunately I had to reboot the system as well so I don't have that data.

dfwair

Yesterday we implemented a MT 2.9rc1 box on one of our high traffic networks and we noticed all was running fine for about 5 hours and then the system rebooted. After it rebooted everything was fine, however, about 10 hours after that, the web proxy quit from a signal 11. It said it could not restar...

dfwair

My Winbox comes up fine, but when I try to bring up the PPPoE Configuration, it crashes out with the same error message.

dfwair

Problem was related to the Tut Systems' Expresso MDU system, not the Mikrotik. For future reference, when configuring ports on any Expresso MDU from Tut, make sure that Block Downstream Broadcast is set to No. While it works set to Yes on Cisco routers, MT does not work well with it.

dfwair

I just updated the software to 2.9b18 and I am waiting to see how it goes.

dfwair

I just put a 2.9b16 unit in service today and I am experiencing the same issue that I have had on a couple 2.8.2x units as well. The ARP data for the end users will time out frequently. People will be surfing, and then just go offline. Looking at the ARP data, it always disappears as soon as they sa...

dfwair

I tried mine with an Atheros 5212 and it works fine. Don't have a mpci senao to test, though.

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