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falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Nystral posted:

Does anyone have a number I can use to contact Roc-noc? they haven't responded to my query via the form yet.

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falz
Jan 29, 2005

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EoIP +42. From the manual:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Interface/EoIP#Notes posted:

Note: EoIP tunnel adds at least 42 byte overhead (8byte GRE + 14 byte Ethernet + 20 byte IP)
Works ok, slows router down a bit. Just enabled one for a customer (not yet in prod) and got decent speeds on an RB1200. Having strange MTU issues, haven't fully troubleshot yet but when testing 1500byte do-not-frag packets across the tunnel, 1501 says requires frag (normal), 993 - 1472 seem to get dropped (the path between is another provider's network which passes some Cisco ME3400/7600 w/ 1600 MTU). MTU 992 works as expected. :iiam:

Seems like a bug, will confirm later next week.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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It has some type of setup wizard that should get you up and running right away. From there you can tweak it if you desire.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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thebigcow posted:

Finally got around to plugging my R751G-2HnD. Is 47 out of 60 MiB normal memory usage when only one computer is running a few torrents?
Memory is used by the packages you have installed and # of routes in table. Network throughput won't affect it. Their cheaper ones tend to have 64 or 32mb of RAM which is indeed tight but fine if you're not putting 50k routes in its RIB.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I've upgraded many many routerboards from 4.x to 5.x. Once, one had to be manually power cycled, then it came up fine. It wouldn't hurt to go to 4.17 first, and ensure the firmware (/system routerboard print; /system routerboard upgrade) is up to date as well.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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There's probably a few ways to get the software uploaded. I always just ftp upload the new package, reboot, '/system routerboard upgrade', reboot.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Odd. Bad download/md5? If FTP upload was binary mode used? Like Dave, I've never had an upgrade issue that couldn't be fixed by a power cycle.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Can you confirm that the serial console and settings work properly on another device? 115k is the default for Mikrotik, 9600 for pretty much any other router (Cisco, Juniper, etc).

You could try this procedure: http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Netinstall

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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http://www.balticnetworks.com/mikrotik-rackmount-adapter-for-routerboard-rb-750-series-triple.html

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Nystral posted:

Tom is a great guy and incredably responsive.

I got a RB493 + r52Hn and trying to set it up and running into some issues due to my complete lack of knowledge of what I just go myself into.

I want to create a total of 4 VLANs
Eth1 and WLAN in VLAN 1
Eth2, 4, and 6 in VLAN 2
Eth3, 5, and 7 in VLAN 3
Eth 8 and 9 in VLAN 4

VLAN1 cannot communicate to any other VLAN
VLAN 2 and 3 can communicate with 4 but no each other.

* Using winbox I got a DHCP server running and serving out IPs on 192.168.88.0/24 off eth1. Will I have to create DHCP "servers" for all interfaces?

* How do I create a vlan for the above interfaces? Initally it looks like I'm stuck with creating different "vlan segments" for each interfac and then assigning them to the same VLAn vs creating one vlan and assigning several inerfaces to it.

* can I create a virtual AP with a second SSID and assign that to VLAN 2? How?
Do you actually need them to be VLANs, or just unique within the Mikrotik? If you don't need tagged frames to leave the Mikrotik, just setup bridge groups with the ports as members, put the IP addresses you want on each bridge interface, then a firewall rules with default deny to block.

Virtual AP is pretty much the same, bridge your virtual interface to whatever bridge interface.

Not posting any sample code for this, it's pretty pointy-clicky if you're using winbox.

If you do need VLANs it's kind of annoying to configure trunk ports - to have multiple VLANs interfaces created- one for each vlan+physical interface combo. I seem to have this example documented already:
code:
/interface bridge
 add name=bridge-vlan101
 add name=bridge-vlan102

/ip address
 add address=10.0.1.1/24   interface=bridge-vlan101
 add address=10.0.255.1/24 interface=bridge-vlan102

/interface vlan
 add interface=ether4 name=ether4-vlan101 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=101
 add interface=ether4 name=ether4-vlan102 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=102

 add interface=ether5 name=ether5-vlan101 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=101                                                                                
 add interface=ether5 name=ether5-vlan102 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=102

/interface bridge port
 ; one untagged vlan per physical interface
 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether4
 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether5

 ; one or more tagged vlan per physical interface
 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether4-vlan101
 add bridge=bridge-vlan102 interface=ether4-vlan102

 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether5-vlan101
 add bridge=bridge-vlan102 interface=ether5-vlan102

falz fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Aug 28, 2012

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I think RB1200 does as well, both for AES-128 only(?) I think. Documentation and confirmation seems to be hard to come by. If you need cheap crap to fit your needs, there's some embeded Cyrix (I think) x86 CPU that has built in crypto. Not remembering its exact name/model/etc though.

Edit: v just suggesting if he has no budget which is my assumption since he's looking at Mikrotik.

falz fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Oct 4, 2012

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Also, you should look at Juniper's SA SSLVN appliances. They're the best VPN devices I've experienced and have given the best user experience since you can do all sorts of fancy stuff and don't have to launch a traditional VPN client if you don't want to. Licensing can get expensive but it should be per concurrent user.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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We used a few and switched to more directional Mikrotik antennas. They're fine for a shorter point to point link (we could get 70mbps fdx on a ~1km link) Depending on what you're looking for, look at Ubiquiti instead. What are you trying to do?

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Yea they'll be more than fine as long as you have line of sight.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Your choices are whatever is unlicensed in your country, 5ghz is your best choice though. I'd just do:

* Qty 2 Nanobridge M5 22dBi
* Qty 2 Lightning Surge Protection
* Optionally Qty 2 RF Armor

Set it to WDS bridge mode, MTU to 2024, you'll have a layer2 bridge that you can trunk over between buildings. You can adjust freq from 10-40mhz to get different speeds. Should cost you a few hundred $.

Or get Ubiquiti Airfiber if you can find it, should be much easier to come by this spring. $3k gets you a 24ghz ~750mbps FDX link. MTU currently limited to 1500 but will be fixed in a firmware update at some point in the near future.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Check out tessco.com, although their stuff is over priced. Others that are more reasonable that have less selection of antenna mounts: balticnetworks.com, streakwave.com, skywalker.com, doubleradius.com, wlanparts.com.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Curious what you'd do with 2000 (or whatever a pallet is) cheap-rear end routers?

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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What model? Some batches of R751's would flake out, but it could be fixed by powering it up with a higher voltage power supply (24vdc?) then back to the 12vdc that it came with. Somehow this was a permanent fix.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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MikroTik has a splash setup page for new/home users. For provisioning many, you can just paste a stock text config with a few variables changed.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I haven't really used the web interface that much, but I think it may show it there. Otherwise it does in winbox.exe (which runs nicely under WINE if you're not a windows user).

As for VPN performance, it depends on model and the type of encryption used. I haven't heard of any major issues, some of the upper models (rb1x00) have crypto offload.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Actual VLANs and tagging are a pain in the butt in RouterOS. To keep things locally only you could just use different bridges and interfaces. To do tagging you have to mess with bridges, vlan interfaces, physical interfaces. to simply create vlan101 and 102 and tag on interfaces ether4 and ether5:

code:
/interface bridge
 add name=bridge-vlan101
 add name=bridge-vlan102


/interface vlan
 add interface=ether4 name=ether4-vlan101 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=101
 add interface=ether4 name=ether4-vlan102 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=102

 add interface=ether5 name=ether5-vlan101 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=101                                                                                
 add interface=ether5 name=ether5-vlan102 use-service-tag=no vlan-id=102


/interface bridge port
 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether4-vlan101
 add bridge=bridge-vlan102 interface=ether4-vlan102

 add bridge=bridge-vlan101 interface=ether5-vlan101
 add bridge=bridge-vlan102 interface=ether5-vlan102
So add the bridge int, add vlan int *per physical int*, bridge them all together. Blah.

Oh and if you wanted these vlans to to l3:
code:
/ip address
 add address=10.0.101.1/24 interface=bridge-vlan101
 add address=10.0.102.1/24 interface=bridge-vlan102

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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You could enable more logging topics on the tik, but really it sounds like troubleshooting step by step- ping gw, ping routed IP, ping hostname, telnet to a TCP port, etc.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Sounds like an MTU issue. You need yo ensure path MTU discovery works end to end (basically don't block ICMP). You could manually mangle packets in routeros to do that too but blegh.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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They support several different types of VPNs. Are you talking point to point between sites or client VPNs for you to occasionally connect to a site?

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Sure you can do GRE or IPIP tunnels and encrypt with IPSec for the site to site links. That would allow you to run IGP (ospf) to allow traffic to other sites to follow other tunnels if you want to. However, depending on the # of sites you'll run in to scalability issues. 3 sites = 3 VPN tunnels on each router (9 configs), 4 = 16 configs, etc. I don't think RouterOS has any cisco-style DMVPN that I believe deals with that situation.

Hub and spoke would be better if you had a logically central site, possibly a data center, where you could have a VPN to redundant routers at that location so each spoke site would only require two tunnels to a well connected/well peered up ISP.

For client VPN you can take your pick - OpenVPN, PPTP, IPSec client.

Also you should get some real point to point layer 2 connection if you want VOIP to work properly between sites. Trusting random DSL or cablemodem connections over the internet probably won't turn out so well. My $.02.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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RouterOS runs on x86 too. A few of the rb1xxx's have crypto offload as well.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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SIP natively has NAT issues. Does their SIP device support a STUN server? That would allow it to determine its public IP to put in the SIP header instead of its actual rfc1918 private IP.

The sonicwall could've been doing some fuckery to rewrite the header with appropriate public IP.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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You may want to check to see if your SIP device supports STUN/Nat server entry anyway so you don't have to mess with the router's config to make it work (other than the NAT entry inbound)

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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All of their routers run the same software and have the same features. There are some differences in license levels though.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Upgrade to the latest 6 (6.4) before downgrading to see if it works there.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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IP-> DNS-> allow remote requests

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I was going to say the same thing, then realized that 'cheap copper gig ports' is the reason for tikswitch.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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jeeves posted:

This is the reason my job (a local ISP branching out into heavy wireless infrastructure work) wants to use Mikrotik-- cheap gigabit switch that can maybe do router things. Basically they're trying to stop relying on Procurve 2980s and such.
Let's just stop you right there and save the trouble- switch to Ubiquiti for all of your bridges+p2mp stuff, use Cisco switches - 2950g are $40 (100mb ports) or 4948 ($800) / 2970g ($300) if you need gig copper. 3560-poe are only $250ish too and can power RocketM5-Ti nicely for p2p or sectors. For routing, some Cisco 3825 ($200 w/ 1gig ram). You'll be in much better shape than replacing all your tik poo poo in a year after lots of pain.

Prices are ebay-style.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Or WINE, works fine there.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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is spanning-tree enabled on the bridge?

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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add devices, if they're routeros add auth and it can see their interface. if not add the SNMP info and they can see their interface traffic. draw lines between things and specify which interface that line is associated with and it will display traffic on the link every few seconds.

That's about all Ive ever used it for, works fine for that.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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Change your remote site wireless link to a routed /30. Won't fix your bug but that traffic and broadcast traffic will no linger be making GBS threads up the airwaves.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I would guess some HP or Dell Powerconnect (non-force10) switch would be least expensive.

falz
Jan 29, 2005

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I read RouterOS changelogs almost exclusively to see hilarious bugs that exist on the CCR boxes. Oh, and I guess on all boxes.

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falz
Jan 29, 2005

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They were too busy designing moustache t-shirts to QA on their CCRs.

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