Yes I have had an RB532a for years that has been rock solid running as an access point.

So I recently purchased an RB750GL as my core router for my home network.

Im running the stock config with RoS 6.1 and it reboots at least every two hours, sometimes every hour, its really aggravating.

Anyone know of issues with the RB750GL? Should I get a refund??

I am assuming the watchdog is rebooting it. (if watch dog is disabled the unit locks up)

Only changes I have made is that I have added some address lists and some drop rules for them.
I am running the default config. 192.168.88.0/24

We have heaps of these in the field and they never give any trouble. Having said that, I dont have any with 6.1

some thoughts ...

- do a factory reset and reconfigure
- turn on more logging and try to find the issue
- roll back to a previous OS

none of these are difficult and wont take long. I would say there is almost zero chance of you having a faulty unit.

good luck

Well, I actually found the problem. It was apparently a bad dc power adapter that shipped with the unit.

In all fairness to Mikrotik, I got this "like new" off ebay.


After putting a replacement dc power supply of 12v 1000ma in, the unit ran all night and is still currently up.

I know its a bit early to say for sure, but Im betting that was the problem.




[update] It was indeed to early, the damn thing is still rebooting.

Ok I believe I have resolved my RB750GL rebooting issue.

I was using the onboard Mikrotik Web Proxy and the default settings I believe were to 128k max cache object size which I believe was resulting in excessive read/writes to flash/ram

So I reduced the max object size to 8kb and the router hasnt rebooted once yet.

I have it configured to an x86 squid proxy connected via Gigabit on the lan, so when its getting burst transfers from that squid box, I imagine the onboard proxy gets slammed pretty hard.

So, Ill continue to monitor the unit through tommarow and see how things turn out.

I also removed ntp server and disabled smtp, I dont need them.

(some people on other threads had suggested this might help alleviate the RB750GL rebooting/max cpu issues)

UPDATE:

Confirmed, I have had zero issues with rebooting since making those changes I mentioned in my previous reply.

Hope someone else finds this thread useful.

I do find it strange that this issue does not affect my old RB532a, yet does affect the newer product.

But they are totally different devices. So, go figure.