Re: [Mikrotik] Winbox Window

2014-09-30 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
The trick is to first DISABLE the 'load last session' option in the Winbox loader, then go into the respective session, arrange the windows accordingly and then press exit. Now ENABLE the 'load last session' for the particular router and go back in and the settings should be retained. -O

Re: [Mikrotik] DHCP server + Firewall

2014-01-24 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
So I was wrong, thanks for the correction Butch -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: Butch Evans For others that answered, the rule that Ty posted IS the right format and in the right chain. ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.but

Re: [Mikrotik] DHCP server + Firewall

2014-01-23 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
Your rule will only work in the forward chain, DHCP packets aren't routed . Sent whilst mobile... Ty Featherling wrote: Can someone confirm that you CANNOT manage traffic FROM the DHCP Server on a Mikrotik with IP Firewall? To test this I added the rule: add action=log chain=output disable

Re: [Mikrotik] Push routes to PPTP VPN Client

2013-11-11 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
Suwanto, what you could do is assign a specific IP address range for the VPN clients, then add a routing rule to either block them or to route back via their own route. -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butch

Re: [Mikrotik] wiki.mikrotik.com

2013-10-10 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
I think will work for the Wiki. https://www.mikrotik.com/client/registeruser.php -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Hancock Sent: 10 October 2013 14:51 To: Mikrotik discussio

Re: [Mikrotik] Need copy of 4.9 to restore system

2013-08-06 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
I thought version 4 only went as far as 4.17? -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of ralph Sent: 06 August 2013 15:10 To: 'Mikrotik discussions' Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Need copy of 4.9

Re: [Mikrotik] Version 6.1 Script vs 5.xx

2013-07-01 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
Just set Outlook to NOT remove line breaks. -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Jerry Allen I hate Outlook at times :) On Jun 28, 2013, at 11:12 AM, "Jerry Allen" wrote: > For some

Re: [Mikrotik] MicroUSB in RB2011

2013-05-29 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
I was going to use it to power a USB 3G modem with the appropriate adapter. -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Tayeb Meftah hey guys, what's the use of the Micro USB controler in RB2

Re: [Mikrotik] Redirecting x.com to y.com

2012-04-17 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
Just enable the web proxy and add the required domains to the access section with a redirect to the site of your choice. I do this for all port 80 when a client has not paid. They get to my 'suspended account' page. -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mail

Re: [Mikrotik] SSH bots

2012-04-03 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
Thanks Andrew. So what you're saying is that I can regularly download a list of my local IP addresses, then scrub them with the appropriate RouterOS settings and then upload to a FTP server for automatic download/update from my customers' routers? -- Regards Hilton -Original Message-

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik Windows File server

2012-01-25 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
We have installed this and I am thinking of using it to dump logs and queue usage stats. plug a 250GB usb drive to alleviate the loss of info after a reboot. Let's see what happens. - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman [mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 25,

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik UPNP

2011-11-22 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
No the solution is to use Google Groups that will filter out the 'out of office' replies. Or at least most of them. -- Regards Hilton -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent: 22 November

Re: [Mikrotik] RB750, Switch settings, Doh

2011-08-09 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
I "think" ether1 cannot be used in 'slave' mode but other than that... -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Jeromie Reeves Ok so /someone/ mixed up so

Re: [Mikrotik] Wake on Lan?

2011-07-16 Thread Hilton J. Ralphs
I use it every day to switch on various computers. Works like a dream. -- Regards Hilton Sent from Samsung Mobile Chupaka wrote: RouterOS can send WoL packets - have anybody tested it? 2011/7/16 Jeromie Reeves > You can do WOL from the 'net. You need to put the target in the DMZ > generally a

Re: [Mikrotik] torch, can we see destination domain name

2010-11-04 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
What you need to do is switch on the web proxy, then create a log prefix especially for this and watch the results. You'll soon see who is using what. If however you already know which IP is the culprit, then just redirect only this via the web proxy for further analysis in the logs. I've attac

Re: [Mikrotik] remove unused routing mark name

2010-10-11 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Won't a reboot sort this out? -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Damai What I want to delete is the routing-table name, so when I access via winbox and want to change to another routing table, it doesn't show up all the unused routin

Re: [Mikrotik] Stable release ?

2010-08-29 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Couldn't agree more, 4.11 seems to be very stable. -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Chris Gotstein Been running 4.11 on all our APs for quite a while now. Been very

Re: [Mikrotik] ROS v4.6

2010-07-09 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
No use 4.5 or 4.6 is pretty stable but I run 4.10 on my own routers and so far so good. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Rory McCann So would the general consensus be that 4.TEN is the best build to run in the 4 series or is there another build

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik Hotspot Authentication for IPv6 dual-stacked clients

2010-06-10 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Thanks Andrew! -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies (Pty) Ltd 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Cox Just some heads up for anyone who's interested in my wo

Re: [Mikrotik] XBox

2010-05-31 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Come on Josh, Rick is asking you for help. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Josh Luthman I don't get any phone calls about it. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 1:57 PM, RickG wrote: > Its strange because I hear XBox works fine on my network (it

Re: [Mikrotik] [IPsec and Cisco ASA]

2010-05-21 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Thanks Kurt, whilst I don't have a Cisco box, your config helped me connect two Mikrotik routers together, something I was having a problem with. Thanks again. -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.bu

Re: [Mikrotik] Was 3.31 retracted?

2010-05-02 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
No it was only available on request. -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mai

Re: [Mikrotik] Redundant Gateway on Bridged Network

2010-04-28 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Rory, you need to look at L2TP and then possibly EOIP in the tunnel. This would keep your subnets intact. Just create a netwatch to check the wireless link and when it fails fire up the L2TP client to 'phone home'. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message

Re: [Mikrotik] Hairpin NAT

2010-04-21 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I'm sure there's supposed to me another rule. Something like masquerade your local IPs to that destination port (80). -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Rory McCann Jo

Re: [Mikrotik] Simple QoS Setup

2010-04-05 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Not sure why that guy is using the bridge like he is but there is a new mangle mark called "no mark" which is essentially everything you don't specifically mark. So mangle traffic for HTTP (connection and packet marking) and then set-up queues for HTTP and "no mark", giving HTTP the higher prior

Re: [Mikrotik] Hello List! Dynamic DNS question

2010-04-01 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I only use Sam's (changeip) scripts on all my routers. Works like an absolute charm. Josh what did you battle with? -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Josh Luthman ChangeIP has a MT script and service. I could not get it to work reliably wi

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik v5 beta finally!

2010-03-31 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
else who understands the proper way to start a signature! -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Butch Evans Why they are making these upgrades free, or if it will continue is something that is unclear (at least to me

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik v5 beta finally!

2010-03-31 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Loaded it just now and mixed results. -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Cox Woohoo! Been looking forward to this for so long :-D Oh and no this isn't an April

Re: [Mikrotik] 802.11N - WPA breaks it?

2010-03-22 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Yes but only if you are stupid enough to generate silly three character passphrases. Do the maths, a 26 character PSK will take AGES to crack, especially if you're using a combination of all 26 letters, upper and lower case (52) plus numbers (10), plus extended ACSII (32 looking at my keyboard).

Re: [Mikrotik] Moron Question....

2010-03-21 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You will need it set if any of your clients connect via a VPN and then want to reach another user on the same subnet. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com

Re: [Mikrotik] IP Pools

2010-03-19 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
TJ, why the need for the fragmented IP ranges? Unfortunately as Josh previously suggested you won't be able to make it into a /23. If you need 500 odd addresses you either need to have an address range of; 192.168.0.0/23 Usable IPs 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.1.254 Or 192.168.2.0/23 Usable IPs 192

Re: [Mikrotik] help me, how to forward ports!

2010-03-15 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
It works now and it's called hairpin NAT. I just setup an example to test for the OP. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Josh Luthman Sent: 15 March 2010 19:41 Nor do I. Butch told me that is what causes the problem that he and I share. =

Re: [Mikrotik] help me, how to forward ports!

2010-03-15 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You need to add these rules; /ip firewall nat add chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.0.100 protocol=tcp dst-address=!192.168.0.0/24 dst-address-type=local /ip firewall nat add chain=srcnat action=masquerade protocol=tcp src-address=192.168.0.0/24 dst-port=21,20 This s

Re: [Mikrotik] ftp behind nat

2010-03-15 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I think you need port 20 AND 21 and then perhaps enable it under /ip /services. -- Regards Hilton 082.572.9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Vadkan Jozsef Does routeros need an ftp conntrack modu

Re: [Mikrotik] script to check email for dns updating

2010-02-12 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Anto, this is exactly how changeip works. Create a free ChangeIP domain name and then in your abc.com zone, create a CNAME to point to that new 'domain'. Easy. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik VPN Hardware

2010-02-04 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I'm afraid I don't but at HQ there must be at least 30 users. All sites have 4mb DSL connections with 512kb upload. -- Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies -Original Message- From: Chris Gotstein Do you know about how much bandwidth you are pushing throug

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik VPN Hardware

2010-02-04 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I have a client with 4 remote sites connecting via L2TP. Across the tunnels I run POP3 mail, RDP sessions to terminal server including printing back to local printers and file sharing. www breakout is at each site. HQ is RB433AH, others are RB433. No hassles so far. -- Regards Hilton J

Re: [Mikrotik] Ethernet port traffic not graphing

2010-02-02 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Tools, Graphing, Interface Rules. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Scott Reed Sent: 02 February 2010 14:53 To: Mikrotik discussions Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Ethernet p

Re: [Mikrotik] Script not running on schedule

2010-01-15 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I decided to try one of the R52N cards in my home router to use as an AP. It's c...@p. My cell phone constantly disconnects due to the wireless suddenly becoming "unavailable". The old R52H card never gave me a second's worth of trouble in the last two years. I'm sorry now that I moved it onto

Re: [Mikrotik] multiple networks on one cable...

2010-01-14 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Most switches operate at the data link layer and therefore don't know about layer 3 issues like IP addresses. Your IP packets would be encapsulated in a frame with only MAC addresses being known to the switch. So having said all this I don't think you will have an issue. -- Regard

Re: [Mikrotik] Script not running on schedule

2010-01-13 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Are you simply referencing the script in question in the scheduler or are you trying to run the script within the scheduler? The latter won't work in the later versions. In terms of the policies, I have write, read, policy and test checked. Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technol

Re: [Mikrotik] 493 Master Port Issue

2010-01-13 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You can't use ether1 in the switch configuration (I think because it's POE). Basically it's ether1 for WAN and ether2 - 9 for a simple 8 port switch Regards Hilton J Ralphs Think Technologies From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com

Re: [Mikrotik] ssh tunneling routeros

2010-01-10 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You may want to check this out; http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=33603&hilit=ssh -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- Can I somehow SSH tunnel to a RouterOS? ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.co

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

2009-12-16 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
But then you run into different MAC address issues. Perhaps a better way is to export the various sections (as opposed to a root export) and then import (paste) in the correct order (i.e. first import the part where you change the interface names then firewall rules). -- Regards Hilton +2782-5

Re: [Mikrotik] HTML only email WAS: Re: OSPF

2009-12-14 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
No Any admin worth his salt won't be using HTML to compose emails regarding a technical issues on a technical mailing list. Talk about a fau'par! Keep the HTML email for sending love letters to your Granny. For heaven's sake man do these people not k

Re: [Mikrotik] Mikrotik DNS server can't resolve www.google.com

2009-12-10 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I've now switched to Google DNS and no problems (of course) but now I can't use the OpenDNS content filter. Sigh! -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Wha

Re: [Mikrotik] IP addresses - assign to bridge or to wlan?

2009-12-09 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
-Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Butch Evans > If you bridge, the IP belongs on the bridge. If you will be routing, > the IP goes on the interface (obviously). >> What's the difference between assi

Re: [Mikrotik] Content Filtering

2009-12-06 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Assuming of course your IP address is static. If it's dynamic then you need a computer on the inside that is always on to update the IP. Unfortunately unlike changeip.com or dyndns.com opendns.com requires a https connection to update its clients. Unless of course someone's managed to get this

Re: [Mikrotik] .Q tagging

2009-11-17 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
You need to search through the Mikrotik forums as there is definitely information about this somewhere there. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Doug Clark Sent: 17 N

Re: [Mikrotik] Proxy-Arp

2009-11-03 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
.com) Hilton J Ralphs wrote: > Yes this is how it works. > Hrm, something isn't right then somewhere because this behavior doesn't exhibit itself on the rest of my network(s). Its just this one router. ___ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik

Re: [Mikrotik] Proxy-Arp

2009-11-03 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
Yes this is how it works. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Kriss (Nebonet.com) Anyone have the problem where proxy-arp will cause a tik to prevent other ip addresse

Re: [Mikrotik] Another poll: How are you controlling access to your routers?

2009-10-27 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
I simply don't enable port 22, well at least from only a 192.168.0.0/16 range. If I need to access the router via SSH I just connect via VPN and then SSH from there. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- From: Butch Evans In my classes, I discuss a particular method of c

Re: [Mikrotik] Watchdog usage

2009-10-19 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
The IP needs to be somewhere on the LAN preferably. The default gateway would be the most obvious but if your internet comms are down, you don't want the router rebooting every five minutes. So yes the IP of an AP would be good. What is not good is that your watchdog-timer is set to 'on' and it'

Re: [Mikrotik] Watchdog usage

2009-10-19 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
According to the manual the system will reboot after 6 sequential pings to the given IP address fail. My experience is more with the hardware watchdog timer as mentioned in my previous post. This certainly works and more than often I'm not even aware that there was a problem (behind a router an

Re: [Mikrotik] Watchdog usage

2009-10-19 Thread Hilton J Ralphs
If you set the 'watchdog-timer=yes', it will reboot the routerboard if it is unresponsive for more than a minute. This should work for you. -- Regards Hilton +2782-572-9619 -Original Message- On Behalf Of Josh Luthman I had a RB493 lock up today creating some down time. Would it be w