I am running SwOS 2.13 on a CSS106-1G-4P-1S aka RB260GSP. I cannot get the IP Src field to work in the ACL tab. I am using the Set VLAN ID action. If I set the MAC Src, the action work fine. However, with either a specific address (xx.xx.xx.xx) or mask (xx.xx.xx.0/24), the action is not taken. Is th...

Thanks petchi, I am using simple queues by household (subnet) to manage traffic and this is working well overall. However, school at home needs more bandwidth at various times. And within a household I want the school work to get bandwidth independent of other traffic, even if total bandwidth for th...

Thanks for the advice! I am trying to prioritize teleconferencing traffic by port#. The traffic is captured, however, both upload and download traffic are being shown as download traffic in the corresponding simple queue. I tested this by turning the camera on and off. That upload traffic is showing...

After reading your comment I checked and did find the jump to conmark and pktmark chains from the prerouting chain. Thanks for the prompt reply! A related question: Aside from extra CPU cycles, is there a downside to just checking packets and not bothering with first checking connections - e.g. sett...

I have seen presentations and examples of using the conmark and pktmark chains instead of the forward chain, etc. However, I cannot find any reference to these chains in the documentation or flow charts for RouterOS 6x. https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Packet_Flow_v6 In some examples, I see a r...

I too would love to know to to see/identify the packets selected by a simple queue. The Torch tool will show packets matching a specified address. However, if 0.0.0.0/0 is specified, then all traffic is captured, even if Torch is started from the last catch-all queue. Has anyone found a clever way t...

Thanks for the info and recommendations!

Thanks for the clarifications. Here's what am trying to achieve: internal queues (at top - specify internal targets/destinations) * limit internal traffic between some specific segments so it does not hog bandwidth (e.g. winbox) * allow some internal traffic higher levels of bandwidth external queue...

Here is an example list of simple queues in order. #5 is the parent of #1. As listed, #1 is limiting bandwidth. However, if I move #5 down below #6, then #1 stops limiting bandwidth. I realize the #6 is a more inclusive rule that #1 -. I want #1 to limit a subset of the traffic of matched by #6. It ...

I am confused how parent queues of simple queues should be ordered. Another post stated "your parent queue should be below the child queues." In experimenting with some queues I am encountering problems. I am running RouterOS v6.36.2 I started with a list of 50+ simple queues with no paren...

I am testing simple queues to tune/limit bandwidth on a network. The client has a dedicated router with bandwidth limits set at 1Mbps. My Mikrotik RB2011L/5.19.1 sees one IP address from this client. I am using the RB2011L_ipaddress/accounting/ip.cgi feature to capture traffic levels. This afternoon...

Freemannnn, I looked at PCQs, but if I understand correctly, the total available bandwidth must be a constant. In my case, the total available bandwidth varies. Is there a way to use PCQs with variable bandwidth? In my situation, my RB2011 is aggregating traffic from a number of clients. Each client...

Chechito, I like that concept, and it might work fine. Rather than selecting specific sites, use connection traffic volume. And rather than capping traffic, just lower the priority. That said, I don't want to mess up streaming video. Do you find that this approach reduces streaming bandwidth but doe...

I would like to enable several queues to limit some types of traffic when the overall traffic level reaches a threshold. For example, I have a 10M internet service. Many devices download updates, backup data, etc. at various times. This can consume a large portion of the available bandwidth and slow...

To answer at least one of my own questions: winbox has a switch tab which allows the mirror to be turned on/off between source and destination ports. I haven't rebooted the router, but I suspect the settings are persistent. I don't see a way to change these settings from the web interface. re: /inte...

re: /interface ethernet switch set numbers=0 mirror-source=ether2 mirror-target=ether5 This seems to work fine, however, I have three related questions: 1) Does this mirror stay in effect after rebooting the router? 2) How do I undo this change - e.g. if I want to use ether5 as a standard bridge por...