Category: Mikrotik
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Mikrotik Layer3 Gateway Load Balancing
This is a topic I’m increasingly receiving questions on, so it seems time for a quick post about it 🙂 *EDIT – turns out it is not such a quick post :P* I say Layer 3 in the heading because I’m talking about load balacing at the network layer, not at layer 2 (bonding). The…
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RouterOS v5.0rc4 Released
Well, RC4 dropped yesterday and here is what they have to say about it: *) radius – fixed Disconnect and CoA response signature generation; *) winbox – make double click work in text fields again; *) winbox – allow to drag windows outside of main one to the left; *) winbox – make some settings…
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MUM Colombia 2010 Live
You guys can browse over to here and watch the Colombian action live. Hopefully you guys can speak Spanish…cause I can’t under stand a word of it.
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Mikrotik X86 Interfaces Always Appear Running
I just recently noticed that some of my server based mikrotiks were showing “R” by ethernet interfaces that I knew were down. I did some quick searching and found that on X86 installs by default there is an option “disable-running-check” enabled. What this does is make the interface appear to always be running. As a…
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Mikrotik – Use The Serial Port To Connect To Other Equipment
It’s sometimes useful to connect the serial port on your Mikrotik over to another piece of network equipment. I don’t need it very often, but it is quite useful for out of band management. The wiki article is here. I made a quick video showing how to connect to a Cisco device. I’m using a…
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Mikrotik ROS4.13 Changelog
Change log is here. *) added USB power reset feature; I know several people will be happy to see this feature. It allows you to reboot 3G modems attached to the mikrotik without having to reboot the whole router. Some people were experiencing issues with the initialization of the modem, so this should fix the…
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Mikrotik ROS V5rc3
Looks like a slew of emergency repairs. The change log is here. *) wireless nv2 – fix stalls on encrypted 11n links using high rates; *) wireless nv2 – fix encryption related kernel crash; *) sstp – fixed memory leak; *) fixed problem – bad boot/kernel crc was reported on powerpc boards when in fact…