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Mikrotik 5.0Beta4

j2sw — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:15:45 +0000

What's new in 5.0beta4 (2010-Jun-29 15:48):

*) console - /ping command again returns number of ping responses received,
    didn't work in 5.0beta3;
*) added ability to monitor each cpu core usage;
*) added support for SATA,SCSI & USB CD-ROMs in CD installer;
*) fixed problem - IRQ balancer did not use correct CPU core
   on non auto MSI irqs after reboot;
*) fixed memory leak;
*) route - new property 'vrf-interface' (for static and dhcp routes),
    automatically updates 'routing-mark' of the route to keep it in the same
    VRF as the specified interface;

Router OS 4.10 Released

j2sw — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:36:32 +0000

What's new in 4.10 (2010-May-28 13:59):

*) added support for ethernet switch configuration in WinBox;
*) allow to configure 11n wireless rate tx powers in WinBox;
*) dhcp server - show non-printable option 82 agent-circuit-id and
   agent-remote-id values in hexadecimal notation also in winbox;
*) api - fixed '/ip/route/print', was not showing '.id' values;
*) console - fixed printing of OID values;
*) lcd - added support for AX89063

Torrent is available at:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download/routeros-ALL-4.10.torrent

Simple OSPF with Mikrotik RouterOS Part1-Setup

j2sw — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:51:43 +0000

The goal of this exercise is to show how to setup OSPF between two routerboards to enable communication between two separate IP networks. In this case we want the 2 PC’s, which are on separate DHCP networks to be able to communicate with each other via dynamic routing.

Our lab setup consists of the following hardware:
-2 RouterBoard 450’s connected together via Ethernet on ether1.
-A PC attached to port 2 of each Rb450

The configuration consists of :

Router1
Ether1 IP: 10.10.10.1/30
Ether2 IP:192.168.3.1/24
DHCP running on Ether2 handing out DHCP in the range of 192.168.3.10-192.168.3.254

Router2
Ether1 IP: 10.10.10.2/30
Ether2 IP: 192.168.4.1/24
DHCP running on Ether2 handing out DHCP in the range of 192.168.4.10-192.168.4.254

Stay tuned for the video coming soon.

What SP means on Mikrotik

j2sw — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:46:14 +0000

Ever looked on your data rates and see the letters “SP” after the data rate?

This means Short Preamble.

Mikrotik Video Hotspot setup

j2sw — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:25:52 +0000

http://www.tiktube.com/?video=131

Some basic setup on a dual radio hotspot.

Mikrotik 4.8 & 4.9 released

j2sw — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:00:38 +0000

Mikrotik has released RouterOS 4.8 7 4.9 pretty close to each other. The changlog is as follows:

What's new in 4.9:
*) fixed problem - some of the bridge ports stayed invalid after reboot;
*) console - added '/port remote-access export' command;

What's new in 4.8:
*) added support for second serial port on RB800/RB1100;
*) fixed problem - WinBox crashed while opening VAP interface;
*) dhcp server - fixed possible inactive dhcp server in case of many
   dhcp leases with address-pool enabled (broken in v4.7);
*) dhcp server - show non-printable option 82 agent-circuit-id and
   agent-remote-id values in hexadecimal notation
   (in the same way as client-id is shown);
*) api - can supply password to '/system/upgrade/upgrade-package-source/add';
*) console - fixed bug that caused "cannot set ..." error when using
    some properties in 'find' commands;
*) api - 'print' command was not showing values of some properties
    such as 'servers' in "/ip/dns";
*) show old software id in export file header;

The torrent can be downloaded from:

http://www.mikrotik.com/download/routeros-ALL-4.8.torrent

RouterOS OSPF tip

j2sw — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:25:36 +0000

One of the simplest thing someone can do when troubleshooting OSPF on a Mikrotik is to make sure all the routers participating in OSPF have the same version (ie. 3.30). Many problems will go away by simply all having the same OS version.

Mikrotik 4.7 released

j2sw — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:55:10 +0000

*) fixed problem – wireless packet bridging with nstreme enabled
sometimes was very slow on RB1xx, RB5xx and RB4xx;
*) fixed problem – ipv6 traffic was not bridged if ipv6 package was not enabled;
*) ‘/user active’ now lists type of api connections as ‘api’
*) fixed getting interface stats in dude
*) fixed metarouter stability problem on RB400s & RB750s;
*) fixed metarouter – it didn’t work on RB1000 with 2Gb;
*) fixed metarouter – it locked up on RB800;
*) fixed problem – SFQ queues did not work on interfaces (wireless) if none
of simple or tree queues were added;
*) fixed RB800 temperature;
*) silentboot feature updated;
*) multicast – fixed possible crash during PIM startup;

*) ospf – changed “/routing ospf route” to show type 2 metric instead of internal metric for type 2 external routes;
*) report platform name in “/sysrem resource”;
*) fixed problem – vlans were not working on RB750 ether1;
*) fixed mac address handling on RB750, some specific arp requests did not work;
*) more than two dns servers allowed in /ip dns;
*) sniffer and torch could process packet from other interfaces;
*) dns cache rotates order of records in reply messages;
*) ospf – fixed DR and BDR election;

Mikrotik 5 announced

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:47:55 +0000

Some of the key features:

- new kernel 2.6.32.5
- support for IPv6 over PPP
- support for MPLS over PPP
- added support for SSTP VPN
- new ssh
- ssh supports forwarding
- new Intel ethernet drivers
- updated SMP support for multicore
- new web configuration interface similar to winbox

Mikrotik OS 4.5 Released

j2sw — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:46:12 +0000

Of note from the changelog:

*) ipsec - added blowfish, twofish, and camellia encryption algorithms;
*) fixed static route removing;
*) fixed DHCP client compatibility with some DHCP servers;
*) fixed temperature monitor on RB800 and RB450G;

Get the torrent here