v7.15beta [testing] is released!

Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:35 pm

RouterOS version 7.15beta has been released on the "v7 testing" channel!

Before an upgrade:
1) Remember to make backup/export files before an upgrade and save them on another storage device;
2) Make sure the device will not lose power during upgrade process;
3) Device has enough free storage space for all RouterOS packages to be downloaded.

What's new in 7.15beta9 (2024-Mar-27 21:55):

*) bgp - added initial vpnv6 support;
*) bridge - added MVRP support;
*) console - added "sanitize-names" property under "/console/settings" menu (option for replacing reserved characters with underscores for files, disabled by default);
*) console - added multi-line print in "/file" menu;
*) console - remove unnecessary serial ports for Alpine CPUs;
*) defconf - fixed 5ghz-ax channel width for L11, L22 devices;
*) dhcpv4-relay - added VRF support (CLI only);
*) eap - improved eap-peap, eap-mschap2 client authentication (dot1x/wireless/ipsec);
*) health - fixed missing "cpu-temperature" on IPQ-60xx devices (introduced in v7.15beta8);
*) ipv6 - properly initialize default ND "interface=all" entry;
*) media - added support for DLNA;
*) ppp - added "enable-ipv6-accounting" option under PPP AAA menu (CLI only);
*) ppp - fixed "Framed-IPv6-Pool" usage when received from RADIUS;
*) ppp - fixed reporting of frame error rate (introduced in v7.15beta8);
*) qos-hw - added "profile" and "map" support for CPU port;
*) qos-hw - added per-queue traffic shapers (CLI only);
*) sfp - added "100M-baseFX" link mode support for compatible devices;
*) sms - removed SMS for SMIPS;
*) system - general work on optimizing the size of RouterOS packages;
*) system - show "cpu-frequency" for Alpine CPUs;
*) vlan - added MVRP (applicant) configuration option;
*) wifi - added "reselect-interval" support;
*) wifi - rename "available-channels" parameter to "channel-priorities" and include desirability rating for each channel;
*) wifi - report current CAPsMAN address and identity on CAP;
*) wifi-qcom - added configuration.distance setting to enable operation over multi-kilometer distances (CLI only);
*) wifi-qcom - updated driver;
*) winbox - added key type and key length column for user SSH keys;
*) winbox - added passphrase option for SSH host key export;
*) winbox - added passphrase option for SSH host key import;
*) winbox - allow specifying size and rtmpfs size with M, G units under "System/Disks" menu;
*) winbox - do not show "Host Key Size" when using ed25519 key under "IP/SSH" menu;
*) winbox - renamed "Channel" column to "Current Channel" under "Wifi" menu;
*) winbox - show inherited properties for wifi interfaces;
*) winbox - updated icons for certain menus;
*) wireguard - added option to mark peer as responder only;
*) wireguard - fixed performance issues showing QR code;

What's new in 7.15beta8 (2024-Mar-21 09:12):

*) bridge - added MVRP support;
*) bridge - improved protocol-mode STP, RSTP and MSTP stability;
*) bridge - reworked dynamic VLAN creation;
*) certificate - added support for different ACME servers for ssl-certificate (CLI only);
*) console - fixed DHCP server "authoritative=no" configuration export;
*) console - improved stability;
*) container - do not allow negative number for "ram-high" setting;
*) defconf - do not override default DHCP server lease time;
*) disk - improved system stability when adding partition with no parent;
*) eap - improved eap-peap, eap-mschap2 client authentication (dot1x/wireless/ipsec);
*) ethernet - fixed interface disable for CRS326-4C+20G+2Q;
*) ethernet - improved port speed downshift functionality for CRS326-4C+20G+2Q;
*) fetch - changed topic "info" to "error" for permission denied logs;
*) fetch - fixed slow throughput due to "raw" logging which occurred even when not listening to the topic (introduced in v7.13);
*) file - fixed moving files to/from external storage (introduced in v7.15beta4);
*) health - added "cpu-temperature" for IPQ50xx devices;
*) health - fixed fan behavior for CRS310-1G-5S-4S+ (introduced in v7.14);
*) health - fixed rogue voltage on CRS510-8XS-2XQ-IN;
*) leds - fixed LEDs for L22 device;
*) lte - fixed firmware upgrade not found issue for Chateau LTE12 (introduced in v7.15beta4);
*) media - added support for DLNA;
*) metarouter - removed support;
*) netinstall - improved stability;
*) ovpn - fixed import ovpn config when remote port is missing;
*) package - reduced "wireless" package size for ARM, ARM64 devices;
*) package - reduced package size for SMIPS;
*) ppp - added "enable-ipv6-accounting" option under PPP AAA menu (CLI only);
*) ppp - added addition support to monitor modem registration state, RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, PCI, CellID for BG77 modem;
*) qos-hw - fixed port "print stats/usage" when using "from" property;
*) quickset - only show LTE mode for devices without other wireless interfaces;
*) route - rework of route attributes;
*) route-filter - allow setting different AFI gateways;
*) sfp - fixed "sfp-tx-fault" state indication for CRS510;
*) sfp - improved auto-negotiation linking for some MikroTik cables and modules;
*) sfp - improved system stability with some GPON modules for CCR2004 and CCR2116 devices;
*) sms - added workaround for modems which do not notify regarding new SMS arrival (missing URC);
*) socks - attempt to parse domain name as IP before resolving;
*) ssh - require "policy" user policy when adding public key;
*) system - fixed upgrade for CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS (introduced in v7.15beta6);
*) system - updated office address in RouterOS license;
*) system - updated online manual links from "wiki" to the help documentation;
*) timezone - updated timezone information from "tzdata2024a" release;
*) traffic-flow - improved system stability;
*) webfig - allow pasting with ctrl+v into terminal;
*) webfig - fixed column preferences for ordered tables;
*) wifi - changed interface default to "disabled=yes";
*) wifi - improve regulatory compliance for L11, L22 devices;
*) wifi - improved stability of DFS check in the 5GHz-A band;
*) wifi - improved system stability when provisioning CAPs in certain cases;
*) wifi - show inherited properties with "print" command (replaces "actual-configuration") and added "print config" for showing only configured values;
*) winbox - fixed the issue where the skin file fails to appear in the user group menu after creation;
*) winbox - updated icons for WireGuard and ZeroTier menus;
*) wireguard - added option to mark peer as responder only (CLI only);
*) wireless - perform shorter channel availability check for 5600-5650MHz if regulatory domain permits it;
*) x86 - improved stability for RTL8125 driver;
*) x86/chr - improved panic saving (increased minimal RAM requirements to 256MB);

What's new in 7.15beta6 (2024-Mar-08 08:23):

*) certificate - added support for importing pbes2 encrypted private keys with aes128;
*) chr - fixed bogus messages printed out while booting up the system (introduced in v7.14);
*) chr - fixed Xen and Vultr missing ethernet (introduced in v7.14);
*) ethernet - fixed default names for CRS310-8G+2S+ device (introduced in v7.14);
*) lte - make interface persistent (unused interface configs can be removed, allow to export and examine current configuration without the device present);
*) package - reduced package size for SMIPS;
*) poe-out - improved firmware upgrade stability for AF/AT controlled boards;
*) qos-hw - added congestion avoidance support for 98DX8xxx, 98DX4xxx, 98DX325x switch chips (CLI only);
*) qos-hw - added WRED support for compatible switches;
*) route - rework of route attributes;
*) sfp - improved system stability for CR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe (introduced in v7.14);
*) ssh - added passphrase option for host key import;
*) vrf - fixed VRF interfaces being moved to main table after reboot (introduced in v7.14);
*) wifi-qcom - improved regulatory compliance for L11, L22 devices;
*) wireguard - added peer "name" field and display it in logs;
*) wireguard - do not attempt to connect to peer without specified endpoint-address;

What's new in 7.15beta4 (2024-Mar-04 08:04):

!) system - added support for AMPERE (R) hardware (new ARM64 ISO file, new ARM64 extra-nics.npk package);
*) bgp - fixed prefix count when BGP sessions run with multiple AFIs;
*) bgp-vpn - use VRF interface as gateway for leaked connected routes;
*) branding - added option to hide default configuration prompt;
*) branding - added option to hide or replace default caps-mode-script;
*) bridge - added MVRP support (CLI only);
*) bridge - rename monitor property "path-cost" to "actual-path-cost";
*) certificate - added trusted parameter for certificate import;
*) chr - allow to "generate-new-id" only while CHR is running on level "free" license;
*) console - added "proplist" parameter to interactive commands;
*) console - added "type" parameter to ":resolve" command;
*) console - added "use-script-permissions" option when running scripts from CLI;
*) console - added hotkey "F8" to print entire multiline input;
*) console - added log for script execution failures;
*) console - added option to get "about" value (dynamically created text field by RouterOS services like CAPsMAN);
*) console - added option to read and change file line endings in full-screen editor;
*) console - added warning log for modified filenames due to reserved characters;
*) console - do not convert string to array in ":deserialize" command;
*) console - fixed ":onerror" behavior when "do" block is missing;
*) console - fixed "export where" functionality in certain menus;
*) console - fixed console prompt when entering hot lock mode with "F7";
*) console - fixed do/while implementation not working with variables (introduced in v7.14);
*) console - fixed filtering by "dhcp" flag in "/ip/arp" menu;
*) console - fixed multiple typos in help;
*) console - optimized configuration export to prevent startup of processes without any configuration;
*) console - replace reserved characters to backup and certificate export file names with underscores;
*) console - show system note before serial login if enabled;
*) console - use user permissions when running scripts from WinBox and WebFig;
*) discovery - added LLDP MAC/PHY Configuration/Status TLV support;
*) discovery - added LLDP Maximum Frame Size TLV support;
*) discovery - added LLDP Port Description TLV support;
*) discovery - advertise only physical interface name for LLDP PortID TLV;
*) discovery - always send LLDP MED Power TLV if MED was received;
*) discovery - fixed high CPU utilization when "tx-only" mode is set;
*) discovery - optimized LLDP information update;
*) disk - added option to auto configure media sharing;
*) disk - added support for formatting exfat file-system;
*) disk - improved support for formatting ext4 file-system;
*) dns - added support for "adlist";
*) dns - added VRF support (CLI only);
*) dns - improved system stability when caching entries;
*) ethernet - fixed management port disable/enable on CCR2004-1G-12S+2XS, CCR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe, CCR2216, CCR2116 devices;
*) file - allow adding and renaming files and directories;
*) health - added log for fan state changes on CRS3xx, CRS5xx, CCR2xxx, CCR1016r2, CCR1036r2 devices;
*) install - cdrom and hdd install images contain additional packages that can be interactively selected;
*) lte - apply the same configuration for Microsoft branded EM12-G modem (Surface Mobile Broadband) as for Quectel EM12-G;
*) lte - fixed R11e-LTE-US modem dial-up;
*) media - added support for DLNA;
*) modem - send APN authentication for BG77 modem also if ppp-client interface created manually;
*) poe-out - added LLDP power management support for devices with single PoE-out port;
*) poe-out - fixed powering devices if input voltage is lower than 12V for hEX PoE (introduced in v7.9);
*) poe-out - moved "PoE LLDP" property from "/interface/ethernet/poe" to "/ip/neighbor/discovery-settings" and enable it by default;
*) ppp - added "Mikrotik-IPV6-Stats-Prefix" option for RADIUS "Delegated-IPv6-Prefix" account by using statistics from dynamic queues;
*) ppp - added log when disconnecting a client due to "WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time" RADIUS attribute;
*) ppp - fixed "on-down" script running even when tunnel was not up;
*) profiler - added "neighbor-discovery" task;
*) qos-hw - added congestion avoidance support for 98DX8xxx, 98DX4xxx, 98DX325x switch chips (CLI only);
*) qos-hw - added ECN marking support for compatible switches;
*) qos-hw - added support for QoS profile assignment via ACL rules;
*) qos-hw - added WRED support for compatible switches;
*) radius - added "require-message-auth" option that requires "Message-Authenticator" in received Access-Accept/Challenge/Reject messages;
*) radius - include "Message-Authenticator" in any RADIUS communication messages besides accounting for all services;
*) route - do not allow routes with empty "dst-address";
*) route - fixed bgp-vpn prefix import with the same route distinguisher (RD);
*) route - improved system stability;
*) route - show route-distinguisher (RD) in route print;
*) route-filter - fixed ext community list matcher;
*) sfp - added "100M-baseFX" link mode support for compatible devices;
*) sfp - added "sfp-ignore-rx-los" setting;
*) sfp - fixed link establishment with 100Mbps optical modules (requires "/interface ethernet reset" or adding "100M-baseFX" modes for advertise or speed properties);
*) sfp - fixed missing Tx traffic at 10Gbps rate on CCR2004-16G-2S+ in rare cases;
*) sfp - ignore SFP RX LOS signal for modules with bad EEPROM;
*) sfp - improved "sfp-tx-power" value monitoring in certain cases;
*) sms - added option to select SMS storage;
*) sms - added SMS PDU to SMS inbox "print detail";
*) sms - improved SMS handling;
*) sms - use "gsm" logging topic for serial modem SMS logs;
*) ssh - added passphrase option for host key export;
*) ssh - added support for user Ed25519 private keys;
*) ssh - export host Ed25519 public key;
*) ssh - fixed permissions to run ".auto.rsc" scripts;
*) ssh - removed RSA flag for user SSH keys;
*) ssh - show key type and key length for user SSH keys;
*) sstp - disconnect clients when server is disabled;
*) switch - added support for multiple ingress and egress port mirroring on 98DXxxxx switches;
*) switch - added support for RSPAN mirroring on 98DXxxxx switches;
*) switch - fixed L3HW and QoS monitor during switch reset;
*) system - added resource values (Product name, File name and File version) for Windows executable files;
*) traffic-flow - detect IPv4 source address if not set;
*) userman - added "require-message-auth" option that requires "Message-Authenticator" in received Access-Request messages;
*) userman - include "Message-Authenticator" in any RADIUS communication messages besides accounting for all services;
*) vlan - ensure that VLAN MTU remains unchanged when adjustments are made to the parent interface MTU, only modifications to the L2MTU might impact VLAN MTU;
*) vlan - fixed MTU reset on bridge after reboot;
*) wifi - do not report disabled state for CAPsMAN managed interface;
*) wifi - fixed configuration export for "disabled" property;
*) wifi - improve channel selection after radar detection events;
*) wifi - rename "available-channels" parameter to "channel-priorities" and include desirability rating for each channel;
*) wifi - report current CAPsMAN address and identity on CAP;
*) winbox - added "Download" and "Flush" buttons under "System/Certificates/CRL" menu;
*) winbox - added "Flat Snoop" button under "WiFi" menu;
*) winbox - added "Request logout" button under "System/Users/Active Users" menu;
*) winbox - added "Trusted" checkbox under "System/Certificates/Import" menu;
*) winbox - added invalid flag under "IP/DHCP Relay" menu;
*) winbox - added missing SFP monitoring properties under "Interface/SFP" menu;
*) winbox - allow to specify "M" or "G" postfix for download, upload or total limits under "User Manager/Limitations" menu;
*) winbox - show "Valid Servers" and "Unknown Servers" column by default under "IP/DHCP Server/Alerts" menu;
*) winbox - show SIM settings for SXTR device under "Interfaces/LTE/Modem" menu;
*) wireguard - added peer "tag" field and display it in logs;
*) wireguard - fixed "auto" argument usage for "private-key" and "preshared-key" settings;
*) x86 - fixed ixgbe Tx hang by disabling TSO;
*) x86 - ice driver update to v1.13.7;
*) x86 - ixgbe driver update to 5.19.9;

To upgrade, click "Check for updates" at /system package in your RouterOS configuration interface, or head to our download page: http://www.mikrotik.com/download

If you experience version related issues, then please send supout file from your router to support@mikrotik.com. The file must be generated while a router is not working as suspected or after some problem has appeared on the device

Please keep this forum topic strictly related to this particular RouterOS release.

infabo · Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:43 pm

*) wifi - improve channel selection after radar detection events;
*) wifi - rename "available-channels" parameter to "channel-priorities" and include desirability rating for each channel;

Thank you! 👍

massinia · Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:45 pm

*) media - added support for DLNA;

What?? 😍

I don't know how you did it without increasing the size of the firmware, I can only say that it works great!
I can finally stop using the DLNA container.

Beautiful logo!

Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:10 pm

Link to the new IP/Media feature manual:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/vi ... =237699479

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist

Updated switch QoS manual (see WRED, ECN):
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/pages/vi ... =189497483

Jotne · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:22 pm

Thanks for the new release.

But still no work on the logging mess:
viewtopic.php?t=124291

Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:28 pm

As mentioned on every version topic - please keep the topic related to the issues that are introduced just in this release and new features.

Logging rules have always worked as "and" filters. You have unlimited options there.

For example, "info" will log info messages, but "info,!l2tp" will log all info topic messages except ones with topic "l2tp" and "info,l2tp" will log only messages that contain both topics.

Consider each logging topic as "AND" filter.

Thanks for the new release.

But still no work on the logging mess:
viewtopic.php?t=124291

eworm · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:31 pm

Oh... This one is kind of a nightmare! 😳

RouterOS scripting is missing some control structures, one of these being :exit (or what ever it may be named...) to exit a scripts early, successfully. As this is missing I have a lot of script misusing :error for that purpose, which worked to date. Now RouterOS starts logging this, and my logs and me are flooded with:

script,error executing script from scheduler failed, please check it manually

Any chance we will have :exit really, really soon to fix this? Otherwise I will have a lot of work to do, implementing other (and probably a lot more complicated) workarounds to my scripts.

Jotne · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:43 pm

Logging rules have always worked as "and" filters. You have unlimited options there.

Example:

dhcp,critical,error xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is this a message with severity critical or severity error. (just one of many bad naming in the loging system)
I will post about this until its fixed. It will make RouterOS much more friendly for large environment where logging are a must.
BSD format does not include what module that are sending the message. Logging is broken.

Start using RFC 5424

onnoossendrijver · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:52 pm

*) vlan - ensure that VLAN MTU remains unchanged when adjustments are made to the parent interface MTU, only modifications to the L2MTU might impact VLAN MTU;
*) vlan - fixed MTU reset on bridge after reboot;

Thank you! this fixed my problem with 7.13 / 7.14 where I had to disable/enable my internet vlan interface after booting :)

Amm0 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:54 pm

Any chance we will have :exit really, really soon to fix this? Otherwise I will have a lot of work to do, implementing other (and probably a lot more complicated) workarounds to my scripts.

Or repurpose :quit for early termination when used in /system/script

spookymulder84 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:56 pm

*) poe-out - fixed powering devices if input voltage is lower than 12V for hEX PoE (introduced in v7.9);

I've had this issue on hEX PoE Lite... is it also fixed? I don't know if it's version related

eworm · Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:00 pm

Any chance we will have :exit really, really soon to fix this? Otherwise I will have a lot of work to do, implementing other (and probably a lot more complicated) workarounds to my scripts.
Or repurpose :quit for early termination when used in /system/script

That causes a ssh session to terminate when running the script... So not an option.

marsbeetle · Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:28 pm

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist

Can you add multiple lists to the new Adlist feature or only one list ?

Kanzler · Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:39 pm

And will the Adlists be automatically updated?

hasmidzul · Mon Mar 04, 2024 2:44 pm

well, something that i wish mikrotik did on the dns adlist is coming true.Been using openwrt for my adblocks package of adblock-lean (lynxthecat) which support multiple lists and automatic update the lists daily. Thanks mikrotik

osc86 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:00 pm

Please add documentation for mvrp.

Jotne · Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:49 pm

Here is the log message from an RB951Ui, using ADlist from example in the linked manual above:
.

ADList.png

What is wrong?

Also how to get the log from the use of the ADlist? (to send to external server)?

nmt1900 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 3:54 pm

About this adlist feature: how is DNS response of 0.0.0.0 better than NXDOMAIN (RouterOS static DNS entries can be configured as this)?

pe1chl · Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:40 pm

As mentioned on every version topic - please keep the topic related to the issues that are introduced just in this release and new features.

Logging rules have always worked as "and" filters. You have unlimited options there.

For example, "info" will log info messages, but "info,!l2tp" will log all info topic messages except ones with topic "l2tp" and "info,l2tp" will log only messages that contain both topics.

Unfortunately there often are different messages with the same topics. So writing "info,!l2tp" will exclude all info,l2tp topics but that will exclude more than the message you have seen and want excluded.
Suggestion: add a unique identifier to each type of message, that can be seen as an extra topic. so you could then filter on "info,!id12345678" or similar, and reject only that particular message.
Or, add another filter method: regexp on the message content. So you can exclude certain messages that you do not want to see, while still seeing all other messages of the same topic.

Also, you often state that we should not put issues not related to the version here.
Well, where should they be put instead? The feature request topic has been abandoned by MikroTik (people still add replies to it but the are not being read anymore).
It is suggested to use the issue tracker. I put improvement suggestion "SUP-124741" there which has the exact topic of logging, it was first replied with "Our developers have reviewed your requests, and they are generally approved for implementation." on Aug 21, 2023 and subsequently was set to "Closed with resolution Done" on Oct 20, 2023 but none of the suggested features have been implemented.

Kanzler · Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:43 pm

@Jotne,
Perhaps the cache size is small?

pe1chl · Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:50 pm

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist

Why is it called "Adlist" when in fact it is a method to add a hosts(.txt) file?
Sure that is a trick that some people use to block access to certain domain names, but that is not the primary purpose of a hosts file.
When you want a specific feature for blocking ads, I suggest it could be made a bit more powerful, e.g. by specification of a regexp that you want to run on each line, to extract the wanted data (the domainname) and how to insert it into the DNS cache (as 0.0.0.0 or as NXDOMAIN).
Also a similar function would be desirable to load address-lists with data from a file/URL (both single addresses and subnets).

massinia · Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:51 pm

Can you add multiple lists to the new Adlist feature?

Yes

@Jotne
How did you add the list?
I'm trying with the example in the MikroTik guide but it doesn't load... "Reload" doesn't seem to work

ErfanDL · Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:59 pm

Can this version be booted on Raspberry Pi 4 or 5?

Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:06 pm

Can this version be booted on Raspberry Pi 4 or 5?

Nope.

gigabyte091 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:54 pm

No PPSK again...

Sit75 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:37 pm

Good joke, this release add 200kb+ to main package. It is absolutely not possible to use with devices with 15,3 MiB HDD. hAP ac^2 in my case. I am really curious why it is so important to put NAS features to main package for the routers? I have SYNOLOGY for those features. It is insane! Thumb down!

fragtion · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:01 pm

Does this fix the issue with drivers for some CHR NIC's that stopped working from 7.14rc2 ? the changelog, while mentioning some driver changes for x86, seems a bit unclear in this regard

massinia · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:18 pm

Good joke, this release add 200kb+ to main package. It is absolutely not possible to use with devices with 15,3 MiB HDD. hAP ac^2 in my case.

I don't think so...

I wonder what packages you have installed...

rpingar · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:28 pm

something cosmetic on X86:
[admin@FTTxAS1] > system/resource/print
uptime: 1h24m10s
version: 7.15beta4 (development)
build-time: 2024-03-04 06:04:00
factory-software: 7.1
free-memory: 118.3GiB
total-memory: 127.6GiB
cpu: Intel(R)
cpu-count: 72
cpu-frequency: 2400MHz
cpu-load: 0%
free-hdd-space: 473.1GiB
total-hdd-space: 473.1GiB
write-sect-since-reboot: 2976
write-sect-total: 2976
architecture-name: x86_64
board-name: x86 To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M.
platform: MikroTik

regards

ToTheFull · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:30 pm

Is it just for hosts format ?
seems to be working

/ip/dns/adlist/print                                                                     
Flags: X - disabled 
 0   url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts" ssl-verify=no match-count=60 
     name-count=17010

Cach used=2050 KiB
Added another 2048 ?? meh!

mantouboji · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:56 pm

Ed25519 private key import error.

pe1chl · Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:59 pm

something cosmetic on X86:

board-name: x86 To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M.

It is the fault of your board manufacturer or seller.

Sit75 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:02 pm

Good joke, this release add 200kb+ to main package. It is absolutely not possible to use with devices with 15,3 MiB HDD. hAP ac^2 in my case.
I don't think so...

I wonder what packages you have installed...

It is not a joke. I am using standard setup with routeros.npk + wifi-qcom-ac.npk. You are using "old" not Wave2 AC WiFi drivers, which is 800kB+ less. That is the reason.

templeos · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:06 pm

Good joke, this release add 200kb+ to main package. It is absolutely not possible to use with devices with 15,3 MiB HDD. hAP ac^2 in my case. I am really curious why it is so important to put NAS features to main package for the routers? I have SYNOLOGY for those features. It is insane! Thumb down!

I agree. Main package is 212KB larger, while wireless package lost 144KB. And here's the kicker, wifi-qcom-ac is the same size. If main package gets even more bloated then you can't even use wifi-qcom-ac anymore, which might be what Mikrotik actually wants. They dangle the carrot in front of you, but you can't actually use it because of features like this DLNA that MUST be in main package for some odd reason.

infabo · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:08 pm

I can't imagine going back to wireless package. wifi-qcom-ac is so much ahead. Like lightyears.

nmt1900 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:21 pm

*) route - improved system stability;

Would be interesting to see if that has anything to do with "orphaned" routing table entries after any of routing protocol processes has crashed? We'll see I guess...

ToTheFull · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:25 pm

Is it just for hosts format ?
seems to be working
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/ip/dns/adlist/print                                                                     
Flags: X - disabled 
 0   url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts" ssl-verify=no match-count=60 
     name-count=17010
Cach used=2050 KiB
Added another 2048 ?? meh!

18693 KiB lol

npeca75 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:52 pm

They dangle the carrot in front of you, but you can't actually use it

it is time for MT to release stripped down "DumbAP" (Openwrt terminology) image for HaP AC2
only switch/firewall/dhcp v4 & v6 client/ AC wifi
and finally put HaP AC2 to place where it belong

infabo · Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:56 pm

Same for cAP AC. This should be a dumb AP.

templeos · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:07 pm

and finally put HaP AC2 to place where it belong

Hopefully not in the attic, in a box, unplugged. I feel like Mikrotik tries to be like a FRITZ!Box and do everything in one box. They also have this same exact Media Server feature and they had it about 4 years ago.

CGGXANNX · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:08 pm

Another 210KB can be saved by creating a separate Main package for ARM with the prestera_dx_mac.ko kernel module removed. For 32-bit ARM that module is only needed for the CRS3xx/5xx switches and useless on the hAP ac². Maybe let the switches get their own ARM / PRESTERA main package or something like that.

npeca75 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:10 pm

Same for cAP AC. This should be a dumb AP.

looking at my HaP AC2 dumb APs ...
kernel 5.15.x, Owrt 23.05
snmpd
lldpd
dual band wifi k/v/r
firewall for MGMN vlan
one SSID with dynamic vlan support based on passphrase
ntp client
remote syslog
etc

still 8 M free space on flash

:)

infabo · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:22 pm

There is a lot of potential for savings. It is up to MT.

npeca75 · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:43 pm

I feel like Mikrotik tries to be like a FRITZ!Box and do everything in one box. They also have this same exact Media Server feature and they had it about 4 years ago.

i could only smile on this
operating dozen of DynaDish5 G-5HacD r3 for distant links

[sarcasm]
i am soooo excited to have Media server on them :) long wanted feature :)
[/sarcasm]

... still on v6.49.x

t0mm13b · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:46 pm

Split up RouterOS,

basic for wired devices

For wireless devices - wifi-qcom-ac drivers

Any other package such as dlna package then upload and reboot.

OR

Release a proper LTS edition and leave it alone for 16Mb devices

Why throw everything and the kitchen sink at ROS? at the expense of the size / storage

The components should be all just modular, plug into the system via package upload and reboot.

msatter · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:53 pm

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist
Why is it called "Adlist" when in fact it is a method to add a hosts(.txt) file?
Sure that is a trick that some people use to block access to certain domain names, but that is not the primary purpose of a hosts file.
When you want a specific feature for blocking ads, I suggest it could be made a bit more powerful, e.g. by specification of a regexp that you want to run on each line, to extract the wanted data (the domainname) and how to insert it into the DNS cache (as 0.0.0.0 or as NXDOMAIN).
Also a similar function would be desirable to load address-lists with data from a file/URL (both single addresses and subnets).

I was not convinced at first but after installing the beta I could see the workings and my compliments for a complete implementation from the start.

NXD is already present in RouterOS and when looking in cache you see a N in front the entry and 0.0.0.0 in the value field. NXD domains are only shown in cache when using Winbox, I don't see them in terminal. So I assume any NXD are sharing already the space with adlist.

Address-lists, could replace the user script implementation that is for a longtime in use. I would advise to be able to state, on import if it are static or dynamic entries and if the dynamic also the live time (TTL) of the imported data.

TTL would also be a feature to consider for DNS adlist but then it will control how long adlist would be active.

edit: *) winbox - added "Request logout" button under "System/Users/Active Users" menu - Thanks!

Paternot · Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:59 pm

it is time for MT to release stripped down "DumbAP" (Openwrt terminology) image for HaP AC2 only switch/firewall/dhcp v4 & v6 client/ AC wifi and finally put HaP AC2 to place where it belong

At the very least make one HaP AC2b, with more storage!

Paternot · Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:00 pm

!) system - added support for AMPERE (R) hardware (new ARM64 ISO file, new ARM64 extra-nics.npk package);

Now, those are quite the heavy lifters. Is this a nod to AWS? Or do we have something new on the horizon?

mada3k · Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:12 pm

*) media - added support for DLNA;

I was happy to see SMB leave the default system package, but DLNA is even worse.

massinia · Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:35 pm

Can anyone with hAP ac2 confirm that

/ip/dns/adlist add url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts ssl-verify=no

download the list?
Name count always remains 0

marekm · Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:37 pm

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist

Please add option to specify custom IP address to redirect to instead of 0.0.0.0 for any specific adlist.
For example here in PL the law requires all ISPs to redirect gambing listes that don't pay taxes listed as https://hazard.mf.gov.pl/ to 145.237.235.240 which shows a warning that the Big Brother (Ministry of Finances) is watching.
It is easy to bypass for anyone interested (and it's a race between the government adding more entries and the gambling sites adding more new DNS names with different numbers at the end, so the list is now over 41k entries), but it's still the law for now.

sirbryan · Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:59 pm

*) media - added support for DLNA;

I was happy to see SMB leave the default system package, but DLNA is even worse.

SMB didn't leave. It was replaced with ROSE's version of SMB.

FIPTech · Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:11 pm

Good work on this one.

- LLDP-MED is now fully working thanks to the MAC/PHY TLS addition.

- MTU do not reset to 1500 on bridge VLAN interfaces after reboot.

But the DHCPv6 client seems to have a problem. In my case it is set on a VLAN interface, located on a VLAN aware bridge.

After rebooting, the DHCPv6 client successfully get an IP address, but IPv6 connectivity is dead on the VLAN interface. Asking for a renew does not solve the problem (but the address is correctly renewed).

I need to stop and restart the DHCPv6 client to get back IPv6 connectivity. Then in the meantime i have this start script :

delay 2
/ipv6/dhcp-client/disable numbers=0
delay 3
/ipv6/dhcp-client/enable numbers=0

I did not report it before because i thought that it was linked to the MTU reset problem, but Ros 7.15 did solve this problem and the DHCPv6 client still have this connectivity problem.

At least one other user has actually a very similar setup, but he does not have this problem. The only difference i can see is that he has the VLAN interface directly on the physical interface. In my case the DHCPv6 client is on a VLAN interface located on a VLAN aware bridge.

See my new post for this problem.

As a side note i did test DoH with Cloudfare on Ros 7.14. I had many connections problems. Then i did revert to normal DNS. I suppose that it is caused by some DNS servers overloading at Cloudfare. Did someone test that ?

pe1chl · Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:34 pm

For example here in PL the law requires all ISPs to redirect gambing listes that don't pay taxes listed as https://hazard.mf.gov.pl/ to 145.237.235.240 which shows a warning that the Big Brother (Ministry of Finances) is watching.

How is that even possible? Has https:// not reached PL yet? or are PL citizens trained to ignore certificate errors when browsing?

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:00 am

At the very least make one HaP AC2b, with more storage!

It exists: hap ax2

sinisa · Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:55 am

Upgraded a CHR, hAP ax2, hAP ac2, cAP ac, RB750G (with 64MB flash!) - no problems.

But... I could not agree more with everyone asking for split packages... I don't need any of additional "features", like SMB, Hotspot, DLNA, RADIUS, BGP, OSPF (whole Routing menu?), MPLS, Kid control???, most of the Tools menu (everything basically once the network is up) on my CAPs. I just want them to accept wifi clients and forward them to appropriate VLAN. And I know how to add packages, actually I have UPS package on many of them, much more useful than DLNA.

gabacho4 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:04 am

BGP, OSPF (whole Routing menu?)

Yes, let's remove the routing protocols from a router. Great idea! If your needs are so minimal, why don't you roll your own router with Debian or something. Eliminate the other junk that is not routing/router related, but please don't gimp my router from doing the most basic of routing processes.

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:40 am

Poll won't happen. Only unhappy people visit the forum. The majority is happy. No need to trim down package size. The happy people are going to install/upgrade ROS on a HAP AC2 successfully and only the pessimist ones are going to face "0 free bytes" problems. It's a state of mind - not a technical issue.

Reinis · Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:32 am

*) poe-out - fixed powering devices if input voltage is lower than 12V for hEX PoE (introduced in v7.9);
I've had this issue on hEX PoE Lite... is it also fixed? I don't know if it's version related

No, hEX PoE Lite has different HW design with different PSE controller. But your device should be able to give PoE-Out down to ~11V@DC.

gigabyte091 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:34 am

When do you plan to implement feature that just about any other vendor have ? PPSK...

nichky · Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:49 am

@massinia

how did u get access there ?
is that similar way as SMB?

pekr · Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:15 am

Yes, let's remove the routing protocols from a router. Great idea! If your needs are so minimal, why don't you roll your own router with Debian or something. Eliminate the other junk that is not routing/router related, but please don't gimp my router from doing the most basic of routing processes.
Maybe have a poll on what feature we want in a basic install and features and services that can be installed as a separate package.
I don't see any possibility to trim down the linux kernel but why couldn't MT trim down the packages. If your point is why don't you roll out your own. I bought MT router so I wouldn't have too.

You don't need the poll. MT needs to just skim over this forum. So they separate a wireless stuff, which is an essential networking feature, and bake in stuff like SMB, DLNA media support? Who's running this circus, a marketing department? Recent state of packaging stops to make a sense ....

pekr · Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:19 am

Poll won't happen. Only unhappy people visit the forum. The majority is happy. No need to trim down package size. The happy people are going to install/upgrade ROS on a HAP AC2 successfully and only the pessimist ones are going to face "0 free bytes" problems. It's a state of mind - not a technical issue.

We are glad to have Mr Yoda here, who by waving the hand pushes and compresses the packages, so that those fit the installation space on our intergalactic fleet of router ships :-)

Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:46 am

Just commenting on that remark about the forum - with all the respect to you all, but forum is for mikrotik enthusiasts and professionals. Home users don't even know this forum exists

mkx · Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:52 am

Home users don't even know this forum exists

So this is MT's excuse not to listen to opinions on this forum?

Yeah, "home users" won't ever run into problems with tiny space on certain device models (hAP ac2, cAP ac, etc.) ... because they tend to never update software on their devices. So the problem with bloated base package doesn't have to be solved because it doesn't exist for 99% of owners of problematic devices? Great line of thinking ...

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:59 am

Like I said.

gigabyte091 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:13 am

I've seen a lot of home users asking for help here so...It's not quite true that home users don't know about this forum

patrikg · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:18 am

Maybe it's time for Mikrotik to develop two versions of RouterOS, one for "business" and one for "home" use. And even split packages when we have like OpenWRT.
When we have our own choice what we have this great hardware to.

t0mm13b · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:24 am

Just commenting on that remark about the forum - with all the respect to you all, but forum is for mikrotik enthusiasts and professionals. Home users don't even know this forum exists

Very poor optics coming from Mikrotik as a whole.

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:27 am

Thanks for the Addlists function, it all seems to block and work well for me on my Hap AX2. Although I did have to up the Cache Size to 32768KiB to give myself a bit of leg room which at the moment seems to be slowly rising and currently 19211 KiB I might bring the cache TTL down a little lets see.

Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:36 am

Yes, you have to be careful with the new features, like all features in RouterOS, just that they are available, doesn't mean they will work on all devices at their full capacity. For serious ad blocking, you need big lists and lots of cache

Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:36 am

So this is MT's excuse not to listen to opinions on this forum?

I said quite the opposite. I said we listen to all users, not just the forum

txfz · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:59 am

You did not say anything at all about to whom you listen, or where.

Sit75 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:12 am

Poll won't happen. Only unhappy people visit the forum. The majority is happy. No need to trim down package size. The happy people are going to install/upgrade ROS on a HAP AC2 successfully and only the pessimist ones are going to face "0 free bytes" problems. It's a state of mind - not a technical issue.

It's definitely not a "happy" or "unhappy" feelings. It's about functionality. If you reach 0KB free HDD size, the router cannot be restarted - it simply won't start after restarting. This is a serious problem. You can only do the netinstall procedure. That's the point.

Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:18 am

We will fix non working things, of course. Including size issues. That is what this topic is for - please resport issues you have seen in this Beta

Sit75 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:30 am

I don know the SW architecture RouterOS, If RouterOS can strictly run in memory space (what is not a case now) - it could be fine even with 0kB HDD space. But any write I/O operation simply damage the source.

radio303 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:48 am

We will fix non working things, of course. Including size issues. That is what this topic is for - please resport issues you have seen in this Beta

Many people here have a disk size issue on 16 / 15.3 MB devices that cannot even update since 7.13 without backup & netinstall. We were hoping so much for 7.14 when beta changelog promised reduced size but no, the released version is still too big. All we ask for is a long term release we can stick to. Yes, we should have left RouterOS 6 in place years ago but who knew. I am a home user and I have 3 devices in different places, with auto update scripts in place for many years.

nmt1900 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:58 am

Poll won't happen. Only unhappy people visit the forum. The majority is happy. No need to trim down package size. The happy people are going to install/upgrade ROS on a HAP AC2 successfully and only the pessimist ones are going to face "0 free bytes" problems. It's a state of mind - not a technical issue.

There is an obvious solution to the problem but it is not likely to fit into Mikrotik's strategy - make firmware packages model-specific.

sinisa · Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:00 am

Problem: at least since 7.14, probably earlier: in Winbox, Wifi menu, Wifi tab, there are two columns named "Channel", also two "TX Power". One is for configured value, other for current. Now, when I exit the session and log in again, only configured values are there, I have to go to "Show Columns" and enable current values, again and again, which is not practical during deployment (later, whwn everything is working it does not matter).
Can you please rename the columns? At least one of each group? Like "Configured Channel"?

Thanks!

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:01 am

I was kind of surprised too that 7.14 reduced the free space further. Ongoing "bundle growing process" in 7.15 as it seems. I assumed that the raised concerns in 7.13 thread about disk-space on hap AC2 would cause some optimization or "re-thinking" of MT's ROS product owner(s). Instead: "Dear developers! Prio1 Integrate DLNA service and adlist import". It makes me think, development and feature priorization is maybe driven by some huge MT customer (telecomunication provider or something). This provider requests features and MT delivers.

FIPTech · Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:09 am

DHCPv6 client default route corrupted addition after reboot :

The DHCPv6 client is not adding correctly the default route after reboot. (RB5009).

In my case the DHCPv6 client is set on a VLAN interface, located on a VLAN aware bridge.

Edit : this bug exhibit only if the DHCPv6 client is in address mode. In prefix mode there is no problem.

After rebooting, the DHCPv6 client successfully get an IP address, but IPv6 connectivity is dead on the VLAN interface. Asking for a renew does not solve the problem (but the address is correctly renewed).

After checking what is going on, i did discover that the default IPv6 route was not complete anymore after reboot, the default gateway address is missing :

missing gateway address.png

I need to stop and restart the DHCPv6 client to get back IPv6 connectivity. After doing that, the route is complete again, with the gateway address :

gateway address ok.png

Then in the meantime i have this startup script :

delay 2
/ipv6/dhcp-client/disable numbers=0
delay 3
/ipv6/dhcp-client/enable numbers=0

Another possibility (if the default gateway is always the same) is to uncheck "Add default route" in the DHCPv6 client, and use a default static route.

At least one other user has actually a very similar setup, but he does not have this problem. The only difference i can see is that he has the VLAN interface directly on the physical interface. In my case the DHCPv6 client is on a VLAN interface located on a VLAN aware bridge.

I did test the DNS Adlist, it seems to consume a lot of memory. Actually my cache is around 20 000 KiB. Is that normal ? A whitelist would be nice because some sites are detecting this and refuse to load.

sinisa · Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:07 pm

We will fix non working things, of course. Including size issues. That is what this topic is for - please resport issues you have seen in this Beta
Many people here have a disk size issue on 16 / 15.3 MB devices that cannot even update since 7.13 without backup & netinstall. We were hoping so much for 7.14 when beta changelog promised reduced size but no, the released version is still too big. All we ask for is a long term release we can stick to. Yes, we should have left RouterOS 6 in place years ago but who knew. I am a home user and I have 3 devices in different places, with auto update scripts in place for many years.

I have been able to overcome lack of space by disabling all graphing (which can take megabytes of space!) and deleting backups/support.rif/everything from Files.
Maybe not nice to lose all traffic history, but it would be lost anyway after netinstal... now, it there was some way to download it before...

giannici · Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:31 pm

*) vlan - ensure that VLAN MTU remains unchanged when adjustments are made to the parent interface MTU, only modifications to the L2MTU might impact VLAN MTU;
*) vlan - fixed MTU reset on bridge after reboot;
Thank you! this fixed my problem with 7.13 / 7.14 where I had to disable/enable my internet vlan interface after booting :)

Please, back-port it to 7.14!
This is a serious bug and should be fixed in "stable" release, we cannot wait a couple months for 7.15 to became e "stable" and tested release...

anav · Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:16 pm

So this is MT's excuse not to listen to opinions on this forum?
I said quite the opposite. I said we listen to all users, not just the forum

In what language? What you said was very clear, and you made no mention of listening to all users.
In fact, it seemed to be, if anything, stating that home users, ME included, dont come to the forums, nor all the people I have helped that are home users, which is all quite laughable.
You lose credibility when you put your foot in your mouth, you lost yours for me and I am reminded every day with each new post I read that is a wasted initial effort and a painful dentistry extraction process to support. Luckily, our dedication is greater than your folly.

In any case, folks have to realize that this is a beta, not an RC, and that MT does not have the resources to test all the devices in all the firmware versions in all possible scenarios.
They either have no automated or limited automated test capability, so the work that you do here gratis, is extremely valuable.
So keep posting the issues!! As Normis stated, they will attempt to fix what they can.
( Note: Logging is the number one issue being reported by new users ( home owners and professionals) on the forum. )

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:41 pm

Yes, you have to be careful with the new features, like all features in RouterOS, just that they are available, doesn't mean they will work on all devices at their full capacity. For serious ad blocking, you need big lists and lots of cache

My main blocker I use is about 1 million entries "HaGeZi's Pro DNS Blocklist" well, my lists consist of various lists depending on what I allow where.
But until this point I've never had to worry about space as I was using a pi4 with a 64GB memory card. That list turns out to be around 35mb alone so I get your point. As an enthusiast etc.. I like options and I have the space it seems for it to work. Normally I use Unbound as a backend to pihole pointing at root which uses dnssec enabled queries. What I want is for a query to be sent securely from my router over https with add blocking working. how all that works out I'm unsure.

pe1chl · Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:02 pm

Problem: at least since 7.14, probably earlier: in Winbox, Wifi menu, Wifi tab, there are two columns named "Channel", also two "TX Power". One is for configured value, other for current. Now, when I exit the session and log in again, only configured values are there, I have to go to "Show Columns" and enable current values, again and again, which is not practical during deployment (later, whwn everything is working it does not matter).
Can you please rename the columns? At least one of each group? Like "Configured Channel"?

That problem has been present "forever" in RouterOS (at least as long as I use it).
There always have been panels with multiple columns with the same name. It seems that the developers do not care.
(I would think it is easy to programmatically scan for such mistakes and hand them to each responsible developer)

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:07 pm

I have no insights but I have the feel that it is quite an effort for MT to keep track of ROS changes in Winbox. There are always a ton of Winbox related changelog entries on each ROS release. And still Winbox is lacking behind CLI in some areas.

sirbryan · Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:16 pm

I said quite the opposite. I said we listen to all users, not just the forum
In what language? What you said was very clear, and you made no mention of listening to all users.
In fact, it seemed to be, if anything, stating that home users, ME included, dont come to the forums, nor all the people I have helped that are home users, which is all quite laughable.

Case in point: I have well over 200-300 hAP AC/AX 2/3 routers deployed in my customers' homes. I can guarantee that maybe 1 or two have visited this forum, ever, besides me. There are easily 199-299 that have not and will not ever need to.

I, on the other hand, visit it frequently, on their behalf.

My home customers aren't going to care about 16MB of disk space; they just care that the WiFi works.

blacksnow · Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:36 pm

Just my two cents.

1) MT team is doing a great job adding features and developing on the RouterOS software. There is great potential here and I really hope they keep pushing the envelope. It works on multiple platforms and is extremely versatile, despite the growing pains MT is putting in some quality work into the software. This alone deserves massive respect and applause. That being said, a clearer roadmap + timeline (or tentative dates or even major version number) for fundamental routing features would be appreciated as well.

2) For products with limited space, there should be a slimmed down/lite LTS branch cut for those products and at some point they need to be EOL'd with regards to new feature development but they should continue to get security and bug fixes appropriate with the LTS branch. Going forward, sorry guys, its the truth, unfortunately putting a small amount of storage creates a constraint and it has been reached. MT doesn't and shouldn't spend their time making and maintaining a bunch of code just to keep adding features to those devices that have limited storage as a result of their mistake/oversight or lack of foresight during hardware development.

3) Add replacement products for the ones that are causing your devoted customers pain. A device refresh of a model that has 16MB storage, with more storage and maybe a slightly newer CPU replacement that is still within 10-15% price compared to the original would alleviate a lot of these complaints and make MT some cheddar.

The storage limit is an artificial problem introduced by a mistake or cost cutting reason during the hardware development. It's 2024, TB is the new MB. Going forward for net new products (where it makes sense), add at least 1GB or more of storage to the devices and realistically 32GB+ to future proof them, sure it costs more but it isn't going to be 50% more. For IoT/PtP/AP devices perhaps 256MB is enough, for any router device at least 1GB, and for flagship devices there is isn't a reason it shouldn't have 128GB storage at least (people are willing to pay for the appropriate hardware).

m4rk3J · Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:58 pm

Yes, that tiny storage is becoming a problem. In the old RB411 I had 64 MB and now in hAP ac2/cAP ac only 16?
I like how the wAP LTE kit (2024) is also only 16MB :D

infabo · Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:06 pm

Also: Chateau 5G R16 which retails at > 400EUR has only 16MB. 🤣
I don't want to discuss the retail price. But the fact: There are devices released in 2024 with 16MB flash. I don't care if 16MB, 128MB or 1GB flash. As long as it fits and devices run stable. So this is fully on topic: keep an eye on the package sizes. They seem to be growing.

massinia · Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:14 pm

I don't think so...

I wonder what packages you have installed...
It is not a joke. I am using standard setup with routeros.npk + wifi-qcom-ac.npk. You are using "old" not Wave2 AC WiFi drivers, which is 800kB+ less. That is the reason.

I repeat, even with wifi-qcom-ac I don't get to 0 of free space as you say.

massinia · Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:17 pm

Can anyone with hAP ac2 confirm that
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/ip/dns/adlist add url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts ssl-verify=no
download the list?
Name count always remains 0
It's not feching the hosts file. Do it manually.

/tools/fetch url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Steve ... ster/hosts

Seems it's half baked...

then in the pull down box select hosts

Also, download the certificate chain and you can use ssl. But I haven't verified it that works or not.

Cache Used 19094 KiB
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/ip/dns/adlist add url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts ssl-verify=yes file=hosts
github-io-chain.pem.txt

Thanks for your reply wfburton, I don't know why "URL" doesn't work for me, I have to download the file as you recommended.

Amm0 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:27 pm

*) branding - added option to hide default configuration prompt;

How? It's not an option to Branding Kit Maker on mt.lv... Nothing about how to build a "defconf" works is documented.

Sorta get $action=="revert" is based on prompt in winbox (thus RN to "hide")... & now, perhaps setting something in the defconf can cause the prompt not to show?

*) branding - added option to hide or replace default caps-mode-script;

Exactly how the default configuration uses caps-mode-script has been a mystery to me, before this change – e.g. from branding kit there is one default configuration loaded, but in CLI the caps-man and "main" default script appears separately under /system/default-configuration.

Export in docs show what appear to be invalid RSC... e.g the outer script:, caps-mode-script:, custom-script: in a indented YAML-like style in show in docs – is that actually valid for a defconf file from branding (cuz it ain't valid at CLI)? I've assumed branding's default configuration just replaced the "script" part... maybe not, dunno...

Some paragraph in docs (default configs or branding) for the defconf more generally be VERY helpful on both these "branding" RNs...

eworm · Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:15 pm

Oh... This one is kind of a nightmare! 😳

I have decided to solve the scripting issues on my side. So did a massive rework, and I think I am mostly fine for now. 👍

ko00000000001 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:43 pm

CHR 7.14/7.15b4 can't find network interface in Vultr
viewtopic.php?t=205073

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:05 pm

I don't know that answer either but the list I have loaded which 32mb in size uses

 max-udp-packet-size: 4096
         query-server-timeout: 2s
          query-total-timeout: 10s
       max-concurrent-queries: 100
  max-concurrent-tcp-sessions: 20
                   cache-size: 131064KiB
                cache-max-ttl: 1w
      address-list-extra-time: 0s
                          vrf: main
                   cache-used: 117207KiB

I know some blockers can use compressed list etc.

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:12 pm

To be clear I am just trying this out. it loads into memory thats all I can tell you so far. as to how it all performs is another question. I have the free memory so why not ? but as stated I would urge people to be carefull. as far as I can see if you don't have enough memory your logs will be flooded.

CGGXANNX · Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:26 pm

As far as cache size, the host file is about 4.8mb. Why is it using 19mb then? And I don't believe changing the cache TTL would help. This is a host file and not different than any host file you would you on your pc. Maybe, MT can change the logic and only cache the local network address and cache only hosts that gets a hit in the host file.

Ever heard of data structures, indices, hashtables, trees, memory alignment, etc...? If MikroTik just put your 4.8MiB file in 4.8MiB RAM performance will be horrible because for every DNS query RouterOS have to do a linear scan through hundreds of thousands of unaligned lines of text. For efficient lookup, and also insertion, deletion (because the cache table is dynamic) including lookup & deletion by TTL, your text file will need to be parsed and transformed/stored in appropriate data structures in memory, with multiple associated indices (hostname, TTL, RR type). There also will be holes in between because the data need to be aligned and not all buckets are filled, especially after random insertion/deletion. Of course it can be multiple times bigger than the original raw text file.

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 7:31 pm

Right. I don't see any hits. But, I'm not currently using it and probably won't. Just to heavy to run on CRS309-1G-8S+

I'm getting 97% coverage according to the top addblock testing site from google. I guess they may add features if it picks up steam?

Amm0 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 8:22 pm

It must be using the same DNS resolver (e.g. effected by cache size). I'd just prefer it was a generic way to dynamically load a "normal" /etc/host with real hosts – that be useful as "poor man's zone file" to load same hosts on multiple routers. e.g. I don't want 0.0.0.0 as hosts, but a URL that's periodically download with a list of DNS host is useful

On the performance issue, time will till. I'm pretty sure a Pi-Hole container is more heavy than adlist (now perhaps more capable). e.g. Pi-Hole more likely to have impact on router performance than resolving a host in the native DNS resolver, which I presume is populated by the "adlist".

ToTheFull · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:52 pm

Ahh the old days, I used to use this script for stevenblack lists years ago on my DD-WRT routers.
This one https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Ad_blocking
When chocolate was cheap!

tom3f · Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:57 pm

I think main package should not contain any VPN. It should be separated package. All nas functionality (smb, dlna, … ) should be in separated packages. It is really only mikrotik fault that even hapac2 which is only few years old has not enough memory. And separate some functionality into packages so people can choose what features they need is realy must have feature. Please Mikrotik, don’t make e-waste from only few year old devices. Your router are really expensive but when someone buys it, it expecta that it will have software support and not that it will be abandoned in few years just becase not enough space on device.

osc86 · Tue Mar 05, 2024 11:46 pm

When do you plan to implement feature that just about any other vendor have ? PPSK...

what are you talking about? PPSK feature exists since forever, long before other vendors supported it.
WiFi -> Access List (capsmanv2)
Wireless -> CAPsMAN -> Access List (legacy capsman)
Wireless -> Wireless -> Access List (standalone ap)
PPSK feature only works with WPA2 and below, regardless of the vendor.

andrek · Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:41 am

Package size for devices with 16 MB flash is definitely an bigger issue. I have a hap ac2 at home with routeros (system) and wifi-qcom-ac packages here and hit the 0kb free mark earlier just with config, 0 additional files on disk

Two problems arise here:

- Config added after the 0kb mark is not saved consistently - meaning that you could risk an inconsistent state after rebooting, not knowing which parts are actually saved without rebooting and running /export. Regular reboot (via Cli/Winbox) shows "router was rebooted without proper shutdown, probably kernel failure" after booting - probably due to flash corruption(???)
- For example while trying out the new DLNA feature (and for that setting up an smb share on an external usb disk) i encountered random reboots (watchdog timer). Problem is that I am unable to even report the issue correctly at this point because there is no chance to create an Supout.rif file - due to lack of disk space. So hitting a dead end here

Don't get me wrong here - I appreciate the new features and everything, but the limit of 16MB devices will be hit sooner or later (in this case real soon, unfortunately)

As for a solution, I would propose an additional (i.e. routeros-minimal) system package with just the bare minimum and split the rest (Advanced Routing, VPN, ...) into separate packages. Advantage would be even that you even could install extra packages (i.e. zerotier or whatever) without running out of space - just as needed for the use case per device.

Maybe it would be even possible to create a "RouterOS Package Builder" where the user could decide which of the main features he wants to install - or make installation of extra packages available via cli/winbox with checkboxes. Probably not feasible, but just an idea in my head :)

Not a fan of the idea to create an LTS release for these devices - would kill innovation considering that some recent devices ship with 16 MB flash.

Guscht · Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:56 am

Maybe it would be even possible to create a "RouterOS Package Builder"

I liked the ROSv6 way, when you were able to deselect different modules.
In my opinion it's also a security risk to have "everything" enabled by default.

If you don't do dynamic routing, why BGP, OSPF, RIP... stuff installed. If you do not need NAS-stuff, why DLNA? If you do not use IPv6, why the whole IPv6-stuff? Why the WiFi-stuff on devices without WiFi? Now they will say, yeah for CAPsMAN... But honestly, if you are going to implement a such brainfu**ed thing like CAPsMAN, you *WILL* be able to install this as an aditional package. Was in my opinion no good decision for ROSv7, told them (MT), got ignored...

blacksnow · Wed Mar 06, 2024 2:41 am

Package size for devices with 16 MB flash is definitely an bigger issue. I have a hap ac2 at home with routeros (system) and wifi-qcom-ac packages here and hit the 0kb free mark earlier just with config, 0 additional files on disk

Two problems arise here:

- Config added after the 0kb mark is not saved consistently - meaning that you could risk an inconsistent state after rebooting, not knowing which parts are actually saved without rebooting and running /export. Regular reboot (via Cli/Winbox) shows "router was rebooted without proper shutdown, probably kernel failure" after booting - probably due to flash corruption(???)
- For example while trying out the new DLNA feature (and for that setting up an smb share on an external usb disk) i encountered random reboots (watchdog timer). Problem is that I am unable to even report the issue correctly at this point because there is no chance to create an Supout.rif file - due to lack of disk space. So hitting a dead end here

Don't get me wrong here - I appreciate the new features and everything, but the limit of 16MB devices will be hit sooner or later (in this case real soon, unfortunately)

As for a solution, I would propose an additional (i.e. routeros-minimal) system package with just the bare minimum and split the rest (Advanced Routing, VPN, ...) into separate packages. Advantage would be even that you even could install extra packages (i.e. zerotier or whatever) without running out of space - just as needed for the use case per device.

Maybe it would be even possible to create a "RouterOS Package Builder" where the user could decide which of the main features he wants to install - or make installation of extra packages available via cli/winbox with checkboxes. Probably not feasible, but just an idea in my head :)

Not a fan of the idea to create an LTS release for these devices - would kill innovation considering that some recent devices ship with 16 MB flash.

Some parts I agree with, some I don't.

Making RouterOS modular for all components is likely to cause not only a large development undertaking but also a headache for developers in maintaining the code. It also can negatively impact latency, interoperability and would make testing even more cumbersome. Not to mention I'm sure the goal at MT is to have an AIO package that works on any platform and offers all the features out of the box (especially with the Cloud/AI frenzy).

Outside of the AIO package, containerization is their offer of support towards advanced customization for user-specific needs that are not covered in what they plan to fundamentally build/support in the RouterOS package. This development approach isn't unusual, as it stands right now if you look at the linux kernel there is a reason why it is called a monolithic kernel and also why it is leagues more performant than many other operating systems. The same thing applies here, especially since they aren't just using the default linux implemented features and instead developing their own derivatives.

I urge people to look towards the future and push MT to make better component choices on the hardware side than to continue to say lets waste development cycles around an artificially imposed constraint. (Yes I know, it will cost us consumers money in the end, but if we really want the best for the future we have to share some of the burden.)

Regarding lack of innovation with a LTS-Lite release, I don't see that happening, all it means is that feature-wise the 16MB constraint on some devices is already preventing anything other than bug fixes from coming down the pipe for those devices (which is realistic, things don't last forever, even Torvalds eventually deprecated old drivers in the linux kernel to clean it up). Newer devices will continue to push the development/innovation further, not to mention CHR already opens up the hardware perspective on many fronts.

TLDR: MT release a new range of comparables for all the devices that have just 16MB-128MB storage. Unfortunately, even the CCR2216 only has 128MB (fine for now, but not really future proof) for internal storage, and while you can slot some M.2 drives in there you can't use them for booting purposes.... so at some point if the package size grows enough that could even become an issue.

gigabyte091 · Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:05 am

When do you plan to implement feature that just about any other vendor have ? PPSK...
what are you talking about? PPSK feature exists since forever, long before other vendors supported it.
WiFi -> Access List (capsmanv2)
Wireless -> CAPsMAN -> Access List (legacy capsman)
Wireless -> Wireless -> Access List (standalone ap)
PPSK feature only works with WPA2 and below, regardless of the vendor.

Sorry but should I say to my guest please can you give me your MAC addresses so you can connect to right VLAN ??? No, in my opinion that is not proper PPSK, that is workaround.

pe1chl · Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:59 am

Well, of course actually PPSK is not proper and is a workaround. But it is a convenient workaround offered by some other vendors.
At work we are using WPA2-EAP with MSCHAPv2 username/password and a certificate for authentication of the AP.
That is "the proper way to do it". Each user gets a username/password stored in a RADIUS server, when authenticated the RADIUS server sends a VLAN number and the user is put in that VLAN. This also has the advantage that each user has a different encryption key on the WiFi, so it is not possible to eavesdrop on other users and do man-in-the-middle attacks when you know the PSK.
Works fine in a corporate environment where you can distribute config using some management system or other local methods, but for the home it is not very convenient of course. Not to mention that low-end devices (IoT etc) usually do not support WPA2-EAP.

At home I use "usermanager" with MAC authentication via RADIUS, so all users connect to the same SSID/password but depending on the "group" of the entry in the user manager list I can assign the different devices a different VLAN.
That works fine with all devices, but unfortunately:
- there is no way to enter a "default user" in usermanager so a new device cannot connect at all until you figure out its MAC address and enter it in the users list. that requires watching the log to see what MAC is rejected (with access list that can be avoided, but unfortunately when usermanager rejects the request there is no way to "fall back to" an access list rule).
- the new WiFi driver does not support this, at least not the setting of VLAN number (did not check if it allows MAC authentication via RADIUS).

Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:05 pm

Ahh the old days, ...When chocolate was cheap!

And healthy

gigabyte091 · Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:24 pm

Also quite often IoT devices have problem with WPA2-EAP, i tried that and most of IoT devices refused to connect. I tried user manager, you helped me and it was working nice but as you said, good for corporate not home user.

This shouldn't be a problem for mikrotik to implement and I believe that there are many users that would like to see this feature. It's not a problem that I can't use wpa3 then. Long strong password and WPA2 is enough for me.

Amm0 · Wed Mar 06, 2024 7:47 pm

!) system - added support for AMPERE (R) hardware (new ARM64 ISO file, new ARM64 extra-nics.npk package);

Is there some cloud provider that has AMPERE that is known to work and/or "supported"?

I tried on large AMPERE box on Equinix Metal cloud, since they support AMPERE. But Equinix requires an iPXE boot for non-standard Linux...but could NOT figure out the right iPXE script to boot it.

Overall, a CHR .IMG of "AMPERE" be more WAY more handy for testing the beta than bare metal IMO... Not sure many folks have AMPERE sitting around ;).

felixka · Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:46 pm

Updated my RB5009 today and it's lost it's ability to route certain VLANs out via VPNs from within VRFs. Not sure what's going on exactly yet. But it works fine on 7.13 (didn't try 7.14 as it would break my WAN link due to the VLAN MTU issues).

pe1chl · Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:47 pm

What is AMPERE??
Due to the stupid name it is impossible to Google...

mkx · Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:50 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_Computing

Amm0 · Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:04 pm

What is AMPERE??
Due to the stupid name it is impossible to Google...

Maybe some Kleenex™ would help to clear it up.

AArch64 be way clear. Get Ampere adds GPUs etc... but for RouterOS it's ARM64 on enterprise servers.

lubomirs · Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:07 pm

I don't know why it's good anyway . . . in ROS

Amm0 · Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:17 pm

I don't know why it's good anyway . . . in ROS

That why I asked about ARM64 CHRs. On AWS I believe ARM64 is cheaper but AMPERE is not going work. And, there a lot of smaller ARM64 boards that can run KVM, but need RouterOS as ARM64 disk image. Some hyped "AI" (GPU-enabled) enterprise server does NOT seem like a good fit for RouterOS to be the native OS. Now running as container under AMPERE would make sense.

Anyway it's curious at the name/rational of "AMPERE".

ayufanpl · Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:39 pm

I don't know why it's good anyway . . . in ROS
That why I asked about ARM64 CHRs. On AWS I believe ARM64 is cheaper but AMPERE is not going work. And, there a lot of smaller ARM64 boards that can run KVM, but need RouterOS as ARM64 disk image. Some hyped "AI" (GPU-enabled) enterprise server does NOT seem like a good fit for RouterOS to be the native OS. Now running as container under AMPERE would make sense.

Anyway it's curious at the name/rational of "AMPERE".

There's nothing in particular about AMPERE in AMPERE image. It is UEFI based, and supporting various VIRTIO drivers, and is easily runnable on arm64 QEMU KVM. If you want you can just install locally, and `dd` image into cloud provider and it will just boot fine, as long as cloud provider does attach disk with some sort of serial number.

Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:25 pm

The little I know about it, Ampere should be arm64 on steroids...

DeviceLocksmith · Thu Mar 07, 2024 5:28 am

Interesting choice considering CCR2XXX routers are running on AWS CPUs, so support for Graviton2 or Graviton3 seemed more logical.

Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:37 am

Hetzner has both Dedicated and Virtual AMPERE ARM64 servers available. CHR images are coming in next betas, currently we only release ISO for bare metal Ampere servers, such as these: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ampere+altra

darukza · Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:00 am

CRS310-1G-5S-4S+ with latest beta firmware 7.15beta4
# NAME VALUE TYPE
0 voltage 23.4 V
1 cpu-temperature 24 C
2 sfp-temperature 43 C
3 fan-state ok
4 fan1-speed 12990 RPM
5 board-temperature1 23 C
6 board-temperature2 16 C
7 psu1-voltage 23.7 V

Fan speed is in max rpm even temperature is low. Target temp is now 45'c and tested with 55'c target.
same with previous firmware release.

pe1chl · Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:35 am

Ok, thanks for the info about AMPERE. I thought it would be about white-label router hardware. Google of that name combined with "router", "switch" etc only resulted in articles about power usage of such devices.

Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:42 am

First hit when searching for "Ampere CPU platform"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere_Co ... to%20scale.

sch · Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:43 am

CRS310-1G-5S-4S+ with latest beta firmware 7.15beta4
# NAME VALUE TYPE
0 voltage 23.4 V
1 cpu-temperature 24 C
2 sfp-temperature 43 C
3 fan-state ok
4 fan1-speed 12990 RPM
5 board-temperature1 23 C
6 board-temperature2 16 C
7 psu1-voltage 23.7 V

Fan speed is in max rpm even temperature is low. Target temp is now 45'c and tested with 55'c target.
same with previous firmware release.

Unfortunately for this model, there are only 2 fan speeds available - Fans on ( 13k RPM ) and off.
There was a software change in system health - *) health - changed default "fan-min-speed-percent" from 0% to 12%; We will fix this setting for CRS310 in the next RouterOS versions.

To get the system working as before you need to set the minimal fan speed to 0% :

sys health/settings/set fan-min-speed-percent=0

patrikg · Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:55 am

YouTube Jeff, the Raspberry/Ansible guy has also now some new videos with AMPERE CPU now with building with ASRock board.

https://youtu.be/Hz5k5WgTkcc

pe1chl · Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:28 pm

First hit when searching for "Ampere CPU platform"

As I said, I did not know that AMPERE was a "CPU platform".
I vaguely remembered about a "white label switch platform" but apparently it has a different name.

Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:33 pm

I vaguely remembered about a "white label switch platform" but apparently it has a different name.

That would be ONIE
https://opencomputeproject.github.io/onie/overview/

pe1chl · Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:33 pm

Correct. Maybe MikroTik should, now that they are working on this, provide an ONIE install file as well.

Amm0 · Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:16 pm

Correct. Maybe MikroTik should, now that they are working on this, provide an ONIE install file as well.

An iPXE script would work for both ONIE and KVM. An iPXE script could fetch RouterOS via HTTP & be invoked via ONIE or PXE support in KVM/etc. If documented... iPXE install be the fewest steps on most CHR[X86/AArch64] platform since it widely support in bootloaders.

e.g. less disk images/ISOs, more iPXE scripts

ivicask · Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:16 pm

Getting POE FW upgrade fail on 7.15, had same even on 7.14 stable.

TomSF · Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:29 pm

Oh... This one is kind of a nightmare! 😳

RouterOS scripting is missing some control structures, one of these being :exit (or what ever it may be named...) to exit a scripts early, successfully. As this is missing I have a lot of script misusing :error for that purpose, which worked to date. Now RouterOS starts logging this, and my logs and me are flooded with:

script,error executing script from scheduler failed, please check it manually
Any chance we will have :exit really, really soon to fix this? Otherwise I will have a lot of work to do, implementing other (and probably a lot more complicated) workarounds to my scripts.

Starting with this Beta release, scripts fail that used to run OK. In particular, scripts run from Scheduler, Netwatch, DHCP-Client-Advanced, DHCP-Server-Advanced cause similar log entries, e.g. "executing script from scheduler failed, please check it manually", "executing script from dhcp failed, please check it manually", "executing script from dhcpclient failed, please check it manually", "executing script from netwatch failed, please check it manually". I do not see anything in the changelog that would explain this.

infabo · Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:07 pm

*) wifi - rename "available-channels" parameter to "channel-priorities" and include desirability rating for each channel;

Mikrotik, please elaborate on this. I can't find available-channels nor channel-priorities anywhere Thank you.

Amm0 · Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:31 pm

Starting with this Beta release, scripts fail that used to run OK. In particular, scripts run from Scheduler, Netwatch, DHCP-Client-Advanced, DHCP-Server-Advanced

Mikrotik changed the permissions available to these scripts recently, maybe the policy further restricted here? But these kinda scripts do not have full admin right now – netwatch's docs helps explain what allowed (and AFAIK applies to the other locations with "on" scripts attached to config):

Netwatch executes scripts as *sys user, so any defined global variable in the Netwatch script will not be readable by for an example a scheduler or other users
Netwatch is limited to read,write,test,reboot script policies. If the owner of the script does not have enough permissions to execute a certain command in the script, then the script will not be executed. If the script has greater policies than read,write,test,reboot - then the script will not be executed as well, make sure your scripts do not exceed the mentioned policies.
It is possible to disable permission checking for RouterOS scripts under /system/scripts menu.
This is useful when Netwatch does not have enough permissions to execute a script, though this decreases overall security. It is recommended to assign proper permissions to a script instead.

infabo · Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:46 pm

I see

script,error executing script from console failed, please check it manually

in log too. I can't remember seeing such an error on 7.14.

But maybe because of:

*) console - added log for script execution failures;

TomSF · Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:00 pm

Starting with this Beta release, scripts fail that used to run OK. In particular, scripts run from Scheduler, Netwatch, DHCP-Client-Advanced, DHCP-Server-Advanced

Mikrotik changed the permissions available to these scripts recently, maybe the policy further restricted here? But these kinda scripts do not have full admin right now – netwatch's docs helps explain what allowed (and AFAIK applies to the other locations with "on" scripts attached to config):
Netwatch executes scripts as *sys user, so any defined global variable in the Netwatch script will not be readable by for an example a scheduler or other users

It is possible to disable permission checking for RouterOS scripts under /system/scripts menu.
This is useful when Netwatch does not have enough permissions to execute a script, though this decreases overall security. It is recommended to assign proper permissions to a script instead.

I recall dealing with this some time ago by changing "scripts attached to config" to execute scripts that have permission checking disabled. That seemed to work until this Beta release. That was even true for Netwatch. I will let things go as is until another Beta comes out and then see what happens.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:39 am

*) wifi - rename "available-channels" parameter to "channel-priorities" and include desirability rating for each channel;
Mikrotik, please elaborate on this. I can't find available-channels nor channel-priorities anywhere Thank you.

answering my own question:

it is about the output of /interface/wifi/monitor. confused me because IMHO output is not a parameter. Maybe call it property, label, term or key (as in key/value pair). Whatever you choose: parameter is a synonym for argument in a data input operation.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:43 am

*) wifi - improve channel selection after radar detection events;

Does this fix the issue where the interface remained in "selecting channel" state after a radar event? e.g. viewtopic.php?p=1057657

Archous · Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:43 am

Updated my RB5009 today and it's lost it's ability to route certain VLANs out via VPNs from within VRFs. Not sure what's going on exactly yet. But it works fine on 7.13 (didn't try 7.14 as it would break my WAN link due to the VLAN MTU issues).

This was a problem introduced in 7.14 and needs to be addressed ASAP. VRFs are broken for us.

See:
viewtopic.php?t=205097#p1060657
posting.php?mode=quote&p=1060662
posting.php?mode=quote&p=1059546
posting.php?mode=quote&p=1059579

nichky · Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:41 am

Can BGP-VPLS has staic name? (even if disconection happen)

ToTheFull · Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:37 pm

@Mikrotik are you going to add an auto-update feature to addlist function. My lists have updated twice in as many days.
Would be great to be able to schedule it to fetch/look early in the morning etc.

Znevna · Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:40 pm

yes, this is the last feature that MikroTik devices needed, a broken half baked adlist.

ToTheFull · Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:45 pm

Thats my choice like I don't have a choice to use half the crap people ask for ??

Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:46 pm

Guys ...

Znevna · Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:47 pm

Oh, the reply wasn't directed at you, sorry @ToTheFull.

Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:23 pm

@Mikrotik are you going to add an auto-update feature to addlist function. My lists have updated twice in as many days.
Would be great to be able to schedule it to fetch/look early in the morning etc.

adlist updates every 1 hour, but in upcoming versions you will be able to change it

FIPTech · Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:49 pm

@Mikrotik are you going to add an auto-update feature to addlist function. My lists have updated twice in as many days.
Would be great to be able to schedule it to fetch/look early in the morning etc.
adlist updates every 1 hour, but in upcoming versions you will be able to change it

Please add a Whitelist if possible.

ToTheFull · Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:00 pm

@Mikrotik are you going to add an auto-update feature to addlist function. My lists have updated twice in as many days.
Would be great to be able to schedule it to fetch/look early in the morning etc.
adlist updates every 1 hour, but in upcoming versions you will be able to change it

@normis I was using the fetch function and storing the file local hence no change. Yes 1 hour is very aggressive, good plan.
Thanks.

Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:45 pm

What's new in 7.15beta6 (2024-Mar-08 08:23):

*) certificate - added support for importing pbes2 encrypted private keys with aes128;
*) chr - fixed bogus messages printed out while booting up the system (introduced in v7.14);
*) chr - fixed Xen and Vultr missing ethernet (introduced in v7.14);
*) ethernet - fixed default names for CRS310-8G+2S+ device (introduced in v7.14);
*) lte - make interface persistent (unused interface configs can be removed, allow to export and examine current configuration without the device present);
*) package - reduced package size for SMIPS;
*) poe-out - improved firmware upgrade stability for AF/AT controlled boards;
*) qos-hw - added congestion avoidance support for 98DX8xxx, 98DX4xxx, 98DX325x switch chips (CLI only);
*) qos-hw - added WRED support for compatible switches;
*) route - rework of route attributes;
*) sfp - improved system stability for CR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe (introduced in v7.14);
*) ssh - added passphrase option for host key import;
*) vrf - fixed VRF interfaces being moved to main table after reboot (introduced in v7.14);
*) wifi-qcom - improved regulatory compliance for L11, L22 devices;
*) wireguard - added peer "name" field and display it in logs;
*) wireguard - do not attempt to connect to peer without specified endpoint-address;

Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:02 pm

Upgraded rb5009 / AX2 / AX3 to 7.15b6

I see this in AX3 upon inspection of logs (same on AX2 but not for RB5009)

What script ?

Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:12 pm

holvoetn please create and send to support@mikrotik.com supout.rif file.

Upgraded rb5009 / AX2 / AX3 to 7.15b6

I see this in AX3 upon inspection of logs (same on AX2 but not for RB5009)

What script ?

Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:16 pm

holvoetn please create and send to support@mikrotik.com supout.rif file.

Done - SUP-146311

ToTheFull · Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:40 pm

holvoetn please create and send to support@mikrotik.com supout.rif file.
Done - SUP-146311

Did this happen on your ax2 as well ?

ToTheFull · Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:41 pm

Sorry I didn't read it properly

massinia · Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:02 pm

hAP ac2 doesn't download the Adlist from URL...
SUP-146323

cowgirl · Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:45 pm

What's new in 7.15beta6 (2024-Mar-08 08:23):

*) sfp - improved system stability for CR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe (introduced in v7.14);

I can confirm CR2004-1G-2XS-PCIe is coming up again with 7.15beta6. Updated from 7.13.5.

Please back port this patch to 7.14.x

marekm · Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:57 pm

For example here in PL the law requires all ISPs to redirect gambing listes that don't pay taxes listed as https://hazard.mf.gov.pl/ to 145.237.235.240 which shows a warning that the Big Brother (Ministry of Finances) is watching.
How is that even possible? Has https:// not reached PL yet? or are PL citizens trained to ignore certificate errors when browsing?

It only works for plain HTTP of course, the browser gets a 302 redirect to the message. For HTTPS it's just a timeout, the redirector only responds to requests on port 80. But that's enough to be compliant.

It's really a security theater made by politicians (of the formerly, no longer after 8 years, ruling party), but the authorities are serious and threaten non-compliant ISPs with fines. Their favourite name to check is apparently one with some German "umlaut" letters so we have to handle IDN properly too.

TomSF · Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:02 pm

Mikrotik changed the permissions available to these scripts recently, maybe the policy further restricted here? But these kinda scripts do not have full admin right now – netwatch's docs helps explain what allowed (and AFAIK applies to the other locations with "on" scripts attached to config):

I recall dealing with this some time ago by changing "scripts attached to config" to execute scripts that have permission checking disabled. That seemed to work until this Beta release. That was even true for Netwatch. I will let things go as is until another Beta comes out and then see what happens.

I just installed beta6 and the issue is still there. I am guessing that the permissions assigned to scripts attached to the config are being applied to the scripts they execute, even if those scripts are set to not require permissions. This is in conflict to the MT documentation which says to do exactly what I am doing to get around the permissions assigned to scripts attached to the config.

AndiiiHD · Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:36 pm

Unfortunately for this model, there are only 2 fan speeds available - Fans on ( 13k RPM ) and off.
There was a software change in system health - *) health - changed default "fan-min-speed-percent" from 0% to 12%; We will fix this setting for CRS310 in the next RouterOS versions.

To get the system working as before you need to set the minimal fan speed to 0% :
Code: Select all
sys health/settings/set fan-min-speed-percent=0

Would it be possible to get such a fan speed setting for SwitchOS too? Its always max speed with SwitchOS on CRS310-1G-5S-4S+ and you cannot change it.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:36 pm

beta6

 16:32:04 script,error executing script from console failed, please check it manually
 16:32:06 system,error,critical error while running customized default configuration script:

Amm0 · Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:17 pm

I see this in AX3 upon inspection of logs (same on AX2 but not for RB5009)

What script ?

While no line numbers, the message does vary depending on where a failure happens. Some bad code in /system/script get you:
"executing script script14 from winbox failed, please check it manually"

Your image shows "script from console". Were you using the CLI to do anything around the time of your log? e.g. Maybe if something gets by the syntax checker, and get a runtime error from CLI, it also logs? I could NOT repo an error with bad code at CLI ... but the "from console" is telling I think.

Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:19 pm

Nothing was open. SImply upgrade and reboot.
You can see from the log entries I wasn't logged in ... only about 5 minutes later when I went in to check the logs.

fichte · Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:34 pm

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is it only for me or is the adlist feature not working correctly? There are no match counts?

pe1chl · Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:43 pm

Maybe it is only you that did not increase the cache size?

herbrico · Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:06 pm

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is it only for me or is the adlist feature not working correctly? There are no match counts?

First, do you use doh. If you use doh, it won't work. How big is your cache? I have about 400000 domains and for that it takes about 48 MB, so calculate how much you need.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:22 pm

free-hdd-space: 0
total-hdd-space: 15.2MiB

0 free space on beta6. Well played!

MT I beg you, I want to continue using my Chateau LTE12.

fichte · Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:47 pm

@herbrico good to know ;-) i had doh, it works now. chatch size is set to 1.000.000 KiB.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:18 pm

Excellence. Didn't survive a reboot. now netinstall ahead. this space issues. second netinstall in a week because of this.

lubomirs · Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:06 pm

**************, do you test your soft before update?, beta6 Briked arm devices

can't recover from netboot neither

If I want to test, I update to beta, but if not, I just "*************" update to beta.

infabo · Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:23 pm

Tried to netinstall 7.15beta6 with no luck on Chateau LTE12. Did not boot afterwards either. So I netinstalled 7.13.5 and device now running again.

Yes, I switched to "testing" branch first time in years. 7.13 was already tough to swallow and then 7.14. Now I go YOLO as testing branch has the fixes first. LOL

As always with YOLO-actions: they don't last long. Fun while it lasts.

Bye testing channel. You'll not see me anytime soon. Horrible experience.

spookymulder84 · Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:35 am

*) wireguard - added peer "name" field and display it in logs;
*) wireguard - do not attempt to connect to peer without specified endpoint-address;

Definitely two welcome features! Thank you!

pe1chl · Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:45 am

Bye testing channel. You'll not see me anytime soon. Horrible experience.

"testing" channel is only for people prepared to live with problems, interruptions, and netinstall.
It is more worrying that the same thing is happening in "stable". There are 2 main problems here:
- the denial of problems caused in 15.3MB/16MB devices by growth of the monolithic "routeros" package + one of the wifi packages
- the fact that "rc" versions are promoted to "stable" without sufficient time for bugs to be reported and weeding out of known bugs.

Probably code should only be labeled "stable" to the outside world when it has sufficiently been fieldtested.
People continue to see "stable" as a label of code quality, rather than a label of release cycle.

eworm · Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:46 am

The scripting part crashes in 7.15beta6 several times a day:

script;error script error: error - contact MikroTik support and send a supout file (10)

Did not yet open an issue, will have to do that later today.

pe1chl · Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:42 am

Are you sure that isn't just reporting of script errors that were always there but you never noticed?
It looks like from this version on, when a script is running in the background (i.e. not started from console) you now see those errors in the log, while in the past it just silently failed.

infabo · Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:47 pm

Rename "stable" channel to "main". "testing" to "nightly". problem solved.

pe1chl · Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:50 pm

"testing" is more like "weekly", but indeed it could be solved with a rename to a less suggestive name.
too often, people interpret "stable" as "stable operation, recommended install".

npeca75 · Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:25 pm

*) media - added support for DLNA;

the most pathetic thing is that DLNA is intended for home users, and most of home users running smaller MT devices which simply does not fit with 16M flash
OK, you could at least run DLNA on your backbone router with 40 or 100G links .... :)
how sad is this decision
Clearly, marketing department is to be blamed

gze100 · Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:55 pm

What's new in 7.15beta6 (2024-Mar-08 08:23):

*) chr - fixed Xen and Vultr missing ethernet (introduced in v7.14);

It has been fixed so far, but you get no local console anymore.
System starts and you can login remotely without any problem. The system seems to work except the local console.
You can open a console in winbox. That's still possible. Please see attached screenshot. Support ticket is already open for that.
Thank you so far for all of your effort dealing with that problem. I appreciate that.

hagoyi · Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:38 pm

*) dns - added support for "adlist";

Is it just dynamic writes to RAM or are all domains stored in NAND (and wears it out)?

rpingar · Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:59 pm

Hetzner has both Dedicated and Virtual AMPERE ARM64 servers available. CHR images are coming in next betas, currently we only release ISO for bare metal Ampere servers, such as these: https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ampere+altra

Hi Normis,
any performance test on this platform?

regards

infabo · Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:01 pm

Tried to netinstall 7.15beta6 with no luck on Chateau LTE12. Did not boot afterwards either. So I netinstalled 7.13.5 and device now running again.

Yes, I switched to "testing" branch first time in years. 7.13 was already tough to swallow and then 7.14. Now I go YOLO as testing branch has the fixes first. LOL
As always with YOLO-actions: they don't last long. Fun while it lasts.

Bye testing channel. You'll not see me anytime soon. Horrible experience.

Me fool did not change back to stable channel in settings and did not disable the auto-update scheduler script.

So after netinstall yesterday of 7.13.5 I had exactly 680kb free space and after auto-update I am today on 7.15beta6 and free space ZERO bytes. So we can say: straight loosing quite 700kb of disk space just of what? Modern SMB? DLNA? ADLIST? 🤔

Znevna · Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:02 pm

All of them, because we need them. Who cares if there's not enough space for the router to function as a router.
Make your devices Open Source friendly! So we can run our bought MikroTik routers as routers without extra crap that we don't need.

chojrak11 · Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:36 pm

Also new feature - IP/DNS/Adlist:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ ... DNS-Adlist

WOW!!! That is going to be a gamechanger! But you need to improve it. It doesn't seem to be able to parse entries like this:

||a.ib.gazeta.pl^
||achcdn.com^
||ad.bitbay.net^
||ad.docer.pl^
||ad.facetpo40.pl^

For example: https://adguardteam.github.io/Hostlists ... ter_14.txt

It also doesn't parse bare domain names:

0-01x-merchandise.554217.xyz
0-0llx.12313123.xyz
0-0lx.1231312.xyz
0-0lxmarket.5767435.xyz
0-0lxmarket.8796556.xyz
0-finanzierung.com
0-lix.6900845.xyz

For example: https://adguardteam.github.io/Hostlists ... ter_18.txt
Without those two formats the Adlist feature is basically unusable.

Also, comments in Winbox aren't displayed and there's no "Comment button"; please add, that helps with knowing which url is what.

Please add an easy way of adding exceptions (i.e. I have a blocklist that breaks some sites, so there should be another tab "Exceptions" where I can add a domain name so that it is ignored if present in any of the blocking list).

Please add buttons to enable/disable individual list.

And finally, please add status for each list - such as "Loaded", "Disabled", "Error", the last one showing in red when DNS cache size setting is too low to load the list. The out of memory is unexpected - I firstly not realized why number of rules was so small, should have been over 600 thousand, but it loaded only 23 thousand.

The memory consumption of this feature is indeed very large. My source text files with rules are 25.5 MiB in total, and they took 130 MiB in RouterOs' DNS cache. Maybe you should implement it differently, for example as a suffix tree, or another kind of trie for compact storage and fast lookups.

Thanks!

miku · Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:25 pm

Hi,
I have hAP ac lite and of course too little memory to load the entire Adlist. But based on it, I created my own file, containing about 16,000 items. After loading, the DNS cache is 2300 KiB. I tested the effectiveness on d3ward: 56%, 79/140 blocked.
I selected the rules for browsing mainly Polish websites, so I estimate the effectiveness at more than 80%.

ToTheFull · Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:48 pm

I'm getting about 97% coverage on my hap ax2 I think it's near 1 million hosts. But apple is being bypassed, on pi-hole it doesn't, not 100% sure why yet.

 /ip/dns/print

         max-udp-packet-size: 4096
         query-server-timeout: 2s
          query-total-timeout: 10s
       max-concurrent-queries: 100
  max-concurrent-tcp-sessions: 20
                   cache-size: 131064KiB
                cache-max-ttl: 1w
      address-list-extra-time: 0s
                          vrf: main
                   cache-used: 114725KiB

/ip/dns/adlist/print
Flags: X - disabled 
 0   url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists/main/hosts/pro.txt" ssl-verify=no 
     match-count=36331 name-count=979734 

 1   file=apple.txt ssl-verify=no match-count=32 name-count=2

t0mm13b · Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:16 pm

Tried to netinstall 7.15beta6 with no luck on Chateau LTE12. Did not boot afterwards either. So I netinstalled 7.13.5 and device now running again.

As always with YOLO-actions: they don't last long. Fun while it lasts.

Bye testing channel. You'll not see me anytime soon. Horrible experience.
Me fool did not change back to stable channel in settings and did not disable the auto-update scheduler script.

So after netinstall yesterday of 7.13.5 I had exactly 680kb free space and after auto-update I am today on 7.15beta6 and free space ZERO bytes. So we can say: straight loosing quite 700kb of disk space just of what? Modern SMB? DLNA? ADLIST? 🤔

Interesting the size of the modules increased in size, that would explain somewhat storage getting zero bytes free - magic!

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Kanzler · Sun Mar 10, 2024 3:34 pm

But apple is being bypassed, on pi-hole it doesn't, not 100% sure why yet.

Maybe you have iCloud Private Relay enabled?

miku · Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:04 pm

@fichte
The lists you are using are in the wrong format, not suitable for MikroTik

For example:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPiLi ... /Hypotirol
||1hypotirol.com^
||bbpotirol.com^
||bypotirol.com^
...

Spidermila · Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:18 pm

re "*) package - reduced package size for SMIPS;" in beta6, it doesn't seem enough. There are no files to delete on the AP and yet I can't do the upgrade. The only way still is to upload the main package manually, reboot, then upload wireless package and reboot again.

[xxx@MikroTik] > system/resource/print
                   uptime: 3m51s
                  version: 7.13.5 (stable)
               build-time: Feb/16/2024 17:35:17
         factory-software: 6.44.5
              free-memory: 6.4MiB
             total-memory: 32.0MiB
                      cpu: MIPS 24Kc V7.4
                cpu-count: 1
            cpu-frequency: 650MHz
                 cpu-load: 4%
           free-hdd-space: 7.4MiB
          total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB
  write-sect-since-reboot: 938
         write-sect-total: 28093680
        architecture-name: smips
               board-name: hAP lite
                 platform: MikroTik
[xxx@MikroTik] > /file/print

[xxx@MikroTik] > /system/package/update/download
            channel: testing
  installed-version: 7.13.5
     latest-version: 7.15beta6
             status: ERROR: not enough disk space, 7.4MiB is required and only 7.4MiB is free

ToTheFull · Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:43 pm

But apple is being bypassed, on pi-hole it doesn't, not 100% sure why yet.
Maybe you have iCloud Private Relay enabled?

We don't use the function ie not subscribed. it just says (Private Relay (Beta) Upgrade) I've noticed that when you goto select manual dns, the ipad has my router ip as well as the dns I am using like....
192.168.88.1
1.1.1.1
Why is it filling in 1.1.1.1 as well ?
tried turning off the private address settings etc, still the same.
Previous setup was telling the router to handout the dns via dhcp. When I just powered up pi-hole on 192.168.88.8 then pointed my pc at the it i'm not getting any resovlv. But using dig I get a reply... will test more later!

pool range 192.168.88.100/200

chojrak11 · Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:08 pm

@fichte
The lists you are using are in the wrong format, not suitable for MikroTik

For example:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPiLi ... /Hypotirol
||1hypotirol.com^
||bbpotirol.com^
||bypotirol.com^
...

They need to implement this format, without it the feature is basically unusable. A lot of users would need to write converters from world's de facto standard into Mikrotik standard. It's better when they to implement the correct parser once and all of us can just use it. Same for bare domain names.

pe1chl · Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:57 pm

They need to implement this format, without it the feature is basically unusable. A lot of users would need to write converters from world's de facto standard into Mikrotik standard. It's better when they to implement the correct parser once and all of us can just use it. Same for bare domain names.

As I wrote above, they need to have an (optional) regexp that extracts the interesting part from the supplied line of text.

ToTheFull · Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:38 pm

Maybe you have iCloud Private Relay enabled?
We don't use the function ie not subscribed. it just says (Private Relay (Beta) Upgrade) I've noticed that when you goto select manual dns, the ipad has my router ip as well as the dns I am using like....
192.168.88.1
1.1.1.1
Why is it filling in 1.1.1.1 as well ?
tried turning off the private address settings etc, still the same.
Previous setup was telling the router to handout the dns via dhcp. When I just powered up pi-hole on 192.168.88.8 then pointed my pc at the it i'm not getting any resovlv. But using dig I get a reply... will test more later!

pool range 192.168.88.100/200

I forgot to add the router ip to the DHCP/Networks/DNS Servers. Now it only dishes out 192.168.88.1 Doh!!

Amm0 · Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:15 pm

They need to implement this format, without it the feature is basically unusable. A lot of users would need to write converters from world's de facto standard into Mikrotik standard. It's better when they to implement the correct parser once and all of us can just use it. Same for bare domain names.
As I wrote above, they need to have an (optional) regexp that extracts the interesting part from the supplied line of text.

If you're going to run some a regex over on all the entries... then what's the difference from a scheduled script that adds them to /ip/dns/static (which supports regex already on entries)?

Now when my 16MB routers don't upgrade because of more half-baked new features... I could see how a "||mikrotik.com^" in adlist block file might be useful vs. listing everything separately. ;)

msatter · Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:02 am

@Amm0, default support for big files read from storage. RegEX is indeed all being used to recognize different types of entries and extract only what is needed. That it should be 0.0.0.0 "or NXD" is a parameter that could be separated from what is set in the file.

Example of a domainPosix: "^.+\\.[a-z.]{2,7}"

Amm0 · Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:48 am

@Amm0, default support for big files read from storage. RegEX is indeed all being used to recognize different types of entries and extract only what is needed. That it should be 0.0.0.0 "or NXD" is a parameter that could be separated from what is set in the file.

Example of a domainPosix: "^.+\\.[a-z.]{2,7}"

Ah. It's resolving thousands of regex's per query I was worried about... Y'all talking about some "on-load" action that runs a regex over the downloaded adlist to pull out the hostname. Not the "runtime" resolver side parsing the hostname-as-regex for each query. Allowing AdGuard or Pi-Hole formats would seem to be a good call.

I just wish they'd add the missing PTR record to /ip/dns/static BEFORE adding new features like adlist — without PTR records Mikrotik DNS is largely unusable for me, as PTR records are needed for DNS-SD/mDNS.

noradtux · Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:01 am

I just wish they'd add the missing PTR record to /ip/dns/static BEFORE adding new features like adlist — without PTR records Mikrotik DNS is largely unusable for me, as PTR records are needed for DNS-SD/mDNS.

Though one cannot explicitely define PTR records, it will generate suiting PTRs from A- and AAAA-records. Good enough?

msatter · Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:23 am

@Amm0 Read the file in chunks, put each chunk into an array. Then filter the array to obtain higer processing speed. Mikrotik can make that work in the background so that the load is not too high.

You have to wait then before the complete list is read in. Now it cuts each line into two parts and domain name hast be clean on bot ends.

PTR is seen as a record that can be retrieved on the fly. Then for static entries it would no harm to be able to define that also instead of the automatic version used currently.

pe1chl · Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:50 am

As I wrote above, they need to have an (optional) regexp that extracts the interesting part from the supplied line of text.

If you're going to run some a regex over on all the entries... then what's the difference from a scheduled script that adds them to /ip/dns/static (which supports regex already on entries)?

Differences:
- the regex to be used in adlist would only be called when receiving the file from the web. after evaluation, static DNS names result and a lookup would not cause more regexp evaluation effort
- the adlist puts the domain names only in the (RAM) cache, while running a script that adds static records will put them in flash storage, expanding the size of the in-flash configuration database (which will not reduce when you decide to stop using this method and delete all the records)

With a proper, more generic, implementation (that is why I think it should be called "hosts" rather than "adlist") it can even be used to add static records to DNS from a hosts file, resolving them not to 0.0.0.0 but to actual addresses, allowing to sync to large local hosts lists without affecting the flash.