Mikrotik Newsletter 29

The PDF can be found here.

PCQ Rewrite:

I’m trying to think of how the masks would be useful. I can envision connections to a group of web servers all sharing a rate limit. Though you could just do that with a mangle rule.

SwOS 1.3
*) added ability to specify ethernet ports from
which it is allowed to connect to the switch;
*) fixed problem – reboot sometimes made switch unresponsive;
*) fixed problem – Hosts table were not shown sometimes;
*) fixed problem – sometimes it didn’t respond to ARP requests
or responded with big packets;
*) fixed problem – remote web interface didn’t work well over VLANs;

USB LCD Support

UPS

Software made for Mikrotik
Right now there is just a couple of crummy iPhone apps 😛

Tips
It looks like they are now starting a new section in the newsletter “Hidden Features”. They will be showcasing lesser known features. This time around they are doing SNMP write. A cool tip they show you is how to run a script via a SNMP write command.