{"id":2361,"date":"2010-11-17T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2361"},"modified":"2010-11-15T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T17:01:33","slug":"mikrotik-x86-interfaces-always-appear-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=2361","title":{"rendered":"Mikrotik X86 Interfaces Always Appear Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just recently noticed that some of my server based mikrotiks were showing &#8220;R&#8221; 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 &#8220;disable-running-check&#8221; enabled.  What this does is make the interface appear to always be running.  As a byproduct if the interface always appears to be running, any IP addressing and routing is also still valid.  This means that your router will still thinks this is a valid path.<\/p>\n<p>With a quick command, you can revert this behavior to normal opperation:<br \/>\nIn the below command I specified all three of my interfaces at once.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"gs-code\"><code class=\"language-plaintext\">\/interface ethernet set 0,1,2 disable-running-check=no<\/code><\/pre>\n<p><figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/mtk-running-check\/1.jpg\" title=\"Running\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here's the before - All ethers appear to be running, do they not?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/mtk-running-check\/2.jpg\" title=\"command\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Issue the command to set it back to normal<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/mtk-running-check\/3.jpg\" title=\"complete\" width=\"640\" height=\"440\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All is right with the world...the voices in my head are quited.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just recently noticed that some of my server based mikrotiks were showing &#8220;R&#8221; by ethernet interfaces that I knew were down. I did\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikrotik","category-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2361"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2367,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361\/revisions\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}