Re: [Mikrotik] x86 Ethernet problems with ROS 6.x

2014-07-23 Thread Craig Baird
One is in a 1000XL and the other in a 2200XL. I guess I'll try downgrading to 5.26. They were both at 4.x previously. Thanks for your help! Craig Quoting Scott Lambert : On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:30:25PM -0600, Craig Baird wrote: A few months ago I upgraded a couple of x86 router

[Mikrotik] x86 Ethernet problems with ROS 6.x

2014-07-21 Thread Craig Baird
A few months ago I upgraded a couple of x86 routers to RouterOS 6.x, and have since had something strange happen with both. Out of the blue, the routers will get into a state where one ethernet port cycles between no-link and 1Gbps about once per second or two. Rebooting the router fixes

Re: [Mikrotik] Bridge Ports showing with an S on version 6.7

2014-02-05 Thread Craig Baird
I have several tower sites where I'm bridging APs. I'm graphing the individual interfaces in the bridge using Cacti. Looking at the graphs, they all look very different. If it were truly acting like a hub, I think you'd see practically the same graph on every interface. Craig Quoting T

Re: [Mikrotik] Bridge Ports showing with an S on version 6.7

2014-02-05 Thread Craig Baird
I don't think that's right. What you're defining is a hub (repeating everything out every port). MT bridges do learn. In general networking terms, a switch is considered to be a multiport bridge. In the MT world, I've always assumed the difference between switching and bridging to be as

Re: [Mikrotik] Use of RB2011 in outdoor environment - WAS: major problem with rb751u-2hnd routers

2014-01-16 Thread Craig Baird
I have two in outdoor boxes on our wireless network. They ran through the summer with no trouble--Southern Utah desert 95+ degrees almost every day, often going over 100. Not sure what the temp was in the boxes, but there is an APC UPS with them, so it would have been pretty toasty. We a

Re: [Mikrotik] Fastest Wireless ?

2013-02-07 Thread Craig Baird
Exalt ExploreAir, 80 MHz channels. 500 Mbps full duplex. Plugged into MT at both ends. :) Craig Quoting Rick Smith : no, I'm open ... I'd LIKE to keep mikrotik on both ends of the links. just need options to consider. On Feb 7, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: Keeping unlicensed?

Re: [Mikrotik] 1:1 NAT strangeness

2013-01-22 Thread Craig Baird
Thanks Butch. That's what I needed. Looks like the MT documentation needs to be revised... Craig Quoting Butch Evans : On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 13:47 -0700, Craig Baird wrote: I have a router that I've configured to do 1:1 NAT, using the following config: add action=netmap ch

[Mikrotik] 1:1 NAT strangeness

2013-01-21 Thread Craig Baird
I have a router that I've configured to do 1:1 NAT, using the following config: add action=netmap chain=dstnat disabled=no dst-address= \ in-interface=ftth-vlan5 to-addresses=172.20.2.2 add action=netmap chain=srcnat disabled=no src-address=172.20.2.2 \ to-addresses= It all works as e

Re: [Mikrotik] dhcp alert

2012-05-01 Thread Craig Baird
I have seen some devices "leak" DHCP out through the WAN, but not actually give out any IPs. Specifically, I've seen numerous Cisco PIX firewalls do it, and I've also seen a couple of Belkin routers behave this way. They trigger Mikrotik's DHCP alert, but they aren't actually giving out I

Re: [Mikrotik] OSPF Route Flapping

2012-02-06 Thread Craig Baird
Is it really necessary to have all clocks synced via NTP? Not doubting you, but I've been running OSPF on my network for years now without using NTP on my MT routers. Generally everything works properly. I've occasionally seen issues with two routers syncing up, but it's generally solved

Re: [Mikrotik] MT switching

2012-01-17 Thread Craig Baird
, Craig Baird wrote: Quoting Josh Luthman : Double check that the 493 even has a switch on it. IIRC, 493Gs have two switch chips. If you have to do software bridging 130 megs might be a bit much for it. That's why I'm looking at using the switches rather than bridging. I'm ho

Re: [Mikrotik] MT switching

2012-01-17 Thread Craig Baird
1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Craig Baird wrote: Quoting Josh Luthman : Double check that the 493 even has a switch on it. IIRC, 493Gs have two switch chips. If you have to do software bridging 130 megs might be a bit much for it. That'

Re: [Mikrotik] MT switching

2012-01-17 Thread Craig Baird
Quoting Josh Luthman : Double check that the 493 even has a switch on it. IIRC, 493Gs have two switch chips. If you have to do software bridging 130 megs might be a bit much for it. That's why I'm looking at using the switches rather than bridging. I'm hoping that using the switches wil

[Mikrotik] MT switching

2012-01-17 Thread Craig Baird
Can anyone comment on the switching capabilities in MT routerboards such as the 493G? Any gotchas I should be aware of before I try using it in critical applications? I've been using bridging, but I seem to be bumping up against a "throughput ceiling" of about 130 Mbps. I'm trying elimin

Re: [Mikrotik] OSPF default route problem

2011-12-09 Thread Craig Baird
just have to live with it for now, or replace MT's with more reliable hardware. -- Blake Covarrubias On Friday, December 9, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Craig Baird wrote: Yes. When both BGP peers are up and running, the Mikrotiks directly connected to the Ciscos both have a default route from t

Re: [Mikrotik] OSPF default route problem

2011-12-09 Thread Craig Baird
oting "can...@believewireless.net" : Do the Mikrotiks connected to the BGP routers show they are getting the default route from the Cisco they are connected to? On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Craig Baird wrote: The Ciscos are receiving the default route via BGP from the upst

Re: [Mikrotik] OSPF default route problem

2011-12-09 Thread Craig Baird
or OSPF? If via BGP, make sure you have Redistribute Default Route set in OSPF. Make sure you don't have a static default route anywhere either. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Craig Baird wrote: I've got a very weird situation that has come up lately.  Wondering if anyone has any ideas.

[Mikrotik] OSPF default route problem

2011-12-09 Thread Craig Baird
I've got a very weird situation that has come up lately. Wondering if anyone has any ideas. I've got two connections out to the Internet that enter my network in two different locations. Upstream ISP is the same on both connections. We run BGP with them via two Cisco edge routers. They

[Mikrotik] Strange simple queue behavior

2011-11-30 Thread Craig Baird
I have some EoIP tunnels that pass through a router that has some simple queues for bandwidth control. I don't want the EoIP tunnels to get throttled, but I have a fall-through simple queue that basically is supposed to catch everything that doesn't have an explicit rule and throttle it to

Re: [Mikrotik] Hacked MT router?

2011-01-05 Thread Craig Baird
ess learned via DHCP show up as dynamic as well. Do you have a DHCP client running on ether1 (/ip dhcp-client print)? -Kristian On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 13:00 -0700, Craig Baird wrote: We've got a private school on our network that has an MT router that we set up for them. For the past two day

[Mikrotik] Hacked MT router?

2011-01-05 Thread Craig Baird
We've got a private school on our network that has an MT router that we set up for them. For the past two days settings have been getting changed on it causing them not to be able to access the Internet. Specifically, a second default route has been added to the box directing traffic to o

[Mikrotik] Very odd default route problem

2010-11-24 Thread Craig Baird
A few days ago, I swapped out a Powerrouter that had a couple of bad ethernet ports for a new one. I did a backup on the old router, and a restore on the new one to transfer the config over. After installing the new router, I noticed that the LCD display was suddenly functional, displayin

Re: [Mikrotik] Squid for Video - videocache

2010-11-18 Thread Craig Baird
That site appears to be down at the moment... Craig Quoting Matt Larsen - Lists : Has anyone here tried this out? http://cachevideos.com/ I this sounds like a great idea in theory.Interested to see if it works as well in practice. Matt Larsen vistabeam.com __

Re: [Mikrotik] TTY Spam/Stolen Credit Card Scam against ISPs

2010-10-28 Thread Craig Baird
So for clarification, does the call come through the hearing impaired relay operator? Craig Quoting Matt Larsen - Lists : There is a new spam scam targeted at ISPs going around. Someone uses the TTY system for hearing impaired people (or a forgery of it) to order up a dialup account an

Re: [Mikrotik] MT strikes again - OSPF says full, but no routes

2010-06-23 Thread Craig Baird
I've seen similar stuff on occasion. I assume you've already tried rebooting both routers. Try setting the interface on one side or the other (or both) to non-broadcast, and specify the neighbor IP in nbma-neighbor. I've occasionally found this necessary to get OSPF to work. Craig Qu

Re: [Mikrotik] smtp delay

2010-05-11 Thread Craig Baird
I have found on numerous occasions that delays of 30 seconds or so can often be attributed to failing DNS lookups. IOW, if your mail server is configured to do a reverse DNS lookup on IPs connecting to it, and if those IPs are not properly reversed, you can get delays like this. Might be

[Mikrotik] Ethernet error counters

2010-01-08 Thread Craig Baird
Is there any way to see ethernet error stats in MT? Craig ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS

Re: [Mikrotik] Easiest Way to get a system backup

2009-12-16 Thread Craig Baird
obviously wouldn't work for the interface settings. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ------ From: "Craig Baird" Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 12:42 PM To: Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Easiest W

Re: [Mikrotik] Easiest Way to get a system backup

2009-12-16 Thread Craig Baird
This is one of the few major annoyances I've had with MT since we switched from StarOS several years ago. With StarOS, if you ever changed out a card, it would just come up and work. No configs were lost. Occasionally, we had issues with interfaces getting re-ordered, but the config was always

Re: [Mikrotik] QOS implementation completed phase 2 testing

2009-11-23 Thread Craig Baird
to see how it works. Is it available now? Craig Quoting Butch Evans : On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 11:34 -0700, Craig Baird wrote: However, as a WISP, our choke point is not at the edge, but rather at the AP. More specifically, the choke point is the 802.11 protocol. If I don't throttle

Re: [Mikrotik] QOS implementation completed phase 2 testing

2009-11-23 Thread Craig Baird
This is very interesting. I've looked at the NetEQ products before and thought to myself "wouldn't it be cool if I could toss out all my customer throttling queues, and just let customers use whatever bandwidth is available." The NetEQ supposedly allows for this, but at the same time, protects t

[Mikrotik] Queues and connection tracking

2009-09-08 Thread Craig Baird
Can anyone tell me if connection tracking must be enabled in order to use simple queues? Craig ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials re

Re: [Mikrotik] Removing many queues

2009-04-13 Thread Craig Baird
Yep. That works! Thanks for the help, Vegard! Craig Quoting Vegard Svanberg : * Craig Baird [2009-04-13 19:54]: Is there an easy way to remove a bunch of queues without having to do individual removes or using a comma separated list? In other words, let's say I have 500 queues

[Mikrotik] Removing many queues

2009-04-13 Thread Craig Baird
Is there an easy way to remove a bunch of queues without having to do individual removes or using a comma separated list? In other words, let's say I have 500 queues and I want to remove #200 thru #300. Is there a quick and easy way to do that? Craig

[Mikrotik] Lots of simple queues

2009-03-26 Thread Craig Baird
I've got 1,000+ simple queues that I need to set up. If possible (because I'm lazy), I would like to put them all on a single core router. But I'm wondering if a router will choke on that many queues. It's a PowerRouter, so it's got lots of horsepower, but I question whether it's a good idea to

Re: [Mikrotik] Netinstall

2009-03-24 Thread Craig Baird
I haven't looked on a 411, but I recently was playing with a Crossroads. By default it was set to NAND first, then network on NAND fail. Craig Quoting Josh Luthman : Mode? It looks to nand first wouldn't it? On 3/24/09, Randy Cosby wrote: Anyone know off the top of their head what the de

[Mikrotik] Change in simple queue behavior in v3?

2009-03-13 Thread Craig Baird
Yesterday, I replaced a router running 2.9.51 with one running 3.20. Since then, I've seen different behavior from a couple of my simple queues. Specifically, I have something like this: 0 name="proxy-server" target-addresses=10.1.1.1/32 dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 interface=all parent=none

Re: [Mikrotik] Ethernet port ordering

2008-11-08 Thread Craig Baird
Quoting Josh Luthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: With x86 it should go in order of PCI slots with onboard being first, I believe. The RB532 isn't x86. It's mips. Although I still would think it would be in order. How the daughterboard wraps around the other ports is very odd - maybe the PCI (or e

Re: [Mikrotik] Ethernet port ordering

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Baird
Good point. Thanks to both of you for your help. Craig Quoting Josh Luthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: With that being the case take note if you have to replace the board and do a backup/restore! On 11/7/08, Butch Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Craig Baird w

[Mikrotik] Ethernet port ordering

2008-11-07 Thread Craig Baird
I've got something weird going on. I just configured an RB532 with the RB564 daugterboard. Here's what I'm seeing: 0 R ether1 1500 00:0C:42:0D:58:5D enabled 1 R ether2 1500 00:0C:42:0D:58:5E enabled 2 R ether3 1500 00:0C:4

Re: [Mikrotik] Linksys wrt54g2

2008-05-23 Thread Craig Baird
I can't say anything about the g2 routers either, as I haven't used them. However, I can tell you that the v8 routers are very solid if they're running DD-WRT. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I think they are the same hardware as the GL except that they have less RAM. We have deployed over 150 WR

Re: [Mikrotik] Crashing Linksys Routers

2008-05-17 Thread Craig Baird
FWIW, we have seen equally good results with the WRT54Gv8 and DD-WRT as with the WRT54GL. I think the only difference between these two routers is the amount of RAM they have onboard (16MB vs. 8 MB), so you have to run the "micro" version on the G. The G is $10 to $20 cheaper than the GL. The o

Re: [Mikrotik] Crashing Linksys Routers

2008-05-16 Thread Craig Baird
Use DD-WRT. It works great on WRT54G v8. You have to use the "micro" version of DD. I'm not sure if you can upgrade a v6 to DD-WRT or not. You'd need to look at their website. Craig Quoting Chris Gotstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Or, you could try some of the custom firmware out there. We us

Re: [Mikrotik] waterproof ethernet coupler

2008-04-25 Thread Craig Baird
How 'bout these: http://tinyurl.com/4y2ewr Guys who have used smartBridges gear (you poor souls) will recognize these. Craig Quoting "Aaron, Network Administrator, Great Lakes Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi Everybody: I'm looking for waterproof Ethernet couplers. Something that I can

Re: [Mikrotik] [MIKROTIKLIST] Packet8 Priority Rules?

2008-04-23 Thread Craig Baird
Or you could prioritize using the DSCP bits. I know packet8 sets those, as does Vonage, and (I think) most other VoIP providers. DSCP has been the most "universal" thing that I have found when trying to prioritize VoIP. Otherwise you're stuck trying to figure out IPs or ports for every differen

Re: [Mikrotik] Part-15 lists...

2008-01-12 Thread Craig Baird
Nor to the Trango, Smartbridges, or StarOS lists. I don't think he's made any announcement. Craig Quoting Sam Tetherow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If he made an announcement, it was not posted to the MT or Equipment list. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Butch Evans wrote: I hear that Michael may