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Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
So, I just picked up a Mikrotik, and things have been going great with it so far except for one little thing. I picked the device up because I thought that my Asus RT-N16 was rebooting and the Mikrotik is now doing the same. It got a random watchdog restart. I've read a few things on the Mikrotik website about it and some of their forums, but there was no solid reasoning for it. Did anyone else run into this and narrow it down to exactly what was causing it?

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Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Well, one of the things is I've had the Asus for awhile and I figured it was just at the end of its rope. I've had it in some pretty warm conditions, so I believed that may have been the case. This is however making me rethink what could be causing it, going to go get a UPS after work. The modem is on the same power outlet and doesn't have a problem, is why I didn't think that route before. Does the supout have something that may indicate power as the cause? I took a quick look over it and didn't see anything related to that.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
So, are one of you guys from Roc-noc? Thanks Tom.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
So, I figured that I would pick up a VPN to do some secure connection stuff online. I seem to be having a problem getting the PPTP functioning correctly. So far, I'm able to get it connected very slightly modifying this guide here http://wiki.hidemyass.com/Mikrotik_Router_PPTP_and_L2TP_Setup however I can't get any data to flow into PPTP after it connects. Is this something with my VPN or is it something that I have jacked up in the routing/firewall? The interface does show that it's attempting to send data. The Tx is way higher than the Rx.

Anyone have any ideas?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
It's not Hidemyass, it's something different but practically uses the same method. It was the only thing I could locate that was populating a guide to use for the VPN server, I'd prefer to use something else, but it's my first time using a VPN connection on anything other than automated processes and was trying to just simply get it working, then looking at an alternative. It did a fairly good job at how to route traffic over to it, as RouterOS feels a lot different than anything I've used Cisco wise. Just taking random stabs at it. Let me see if I can get a config when I swing back to it.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
This is probably a pretty dumb question, but haven't been able to be 100% based on licensing rules and such.

I've got a 951-2Hnd or something or another with an L4 license and 5.25 ROS. I heard something about not being able to upgrade versions with that license unless it's one behind. What can I actually upgrade to, or am I stuck with 5.25 unless I fork out extra dollars?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Could use deductive reasoning in the switch port area to know what was and wasn't there.

I think documentation would be the only solution here. I looked and didn't see anything either, but we probably overlooked something somewhere. I use the etherx-function schema.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
So kind of unrelated to the RouterOS but moreso on the hardware, I was hoping to get an idea or best cost to link up two houses that are about 150ft apart with LOS. Is it as simple as getting two SXT2Lites and pointing them at each other for the physical aspect? Don't wanna blow money on something that might not work when it first gets cranked up.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
My experience has been with the Mikrotik routers and I have set them up at home. Checking out the Nanobeam loco either M5 or M2, and look like good products at a good price. Fresnel zone might be difficult to deal with if that's the case. Is it possible to get a different device for a smaller span or has a larger spread? Or am I worrying about nothing?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Is there any word on whether or not they intend to do prepackaged multicore mips processors, or further move Tilera down in price? I'm looking for something that compares to the ERL/ERX from Ubnt and Mikrotik seems like it's missing a sweet spot in that area.

My RB951G-2HnD is dying with all the queues and my VPN I have set up on it, and need something a bit stronger.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Anyone have an opinion on the Edgerouter X? I'm trying to decide whether there is specifically any reason to get the ERL over this?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Bought a couple of hAP lites to use as a managed router at a few "customers" sites (read friends) and so far so good. The wifi distance doesn't seem to be as good, but tolerable.

Since these things seem pretty good, could someone school me in the finer nature of creating a wireless mesh? If I were to set out several of these to create a wireless mesh with something like these, is there a way to make sure I still get a full 100Mbps from say one of the ethernet ports? I remember reading something about wireless is half duplex, but using different chains or antennas to alleviate it. It's all confusing.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

drk posted:

Good luck? I can fairly reliably get about 100Mbps (actual throughput, not link rate) over 802.11n dual-chain on my 951G. In a traditional mesh, each extra hop should cut the throughput in half. Wifi is half duplex, so picture it this way: if you have 3 wifi routers in a mesh, with router 2 essentially acting as a repeater from router 1 (connected to the internet or other wired network) to router 3 (the wifi AP you are wired into), while router 2 is receiving from router 1, it cant also send to router 3. Thus, for traffic from 1->3, 2 is constantly switching between receiving and transmitting, cutting your throughput in half. Maybe there are creative ways around this using multiple chains and and multiple frequencies, but I would be pretty surprised to see 100Mbps over mesh on 802.11n, especially using something low end like a hAP lite.

This is kind of what I needed to know, I figured there could be an option with a wireless mesh that had two antennas or something that would use one to transmit for "backhaul" and one to do wireless AP, the haps might not be the best, was just curious overall.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
On the Mikrotik forums, Normis is mentioning the "upcoming release" of a dual band home product, and requesting information on how to do their SSIDs. I'm personally excited for 5ghz AC. Hooray.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Awesome, didn't know that existed, but I only follow announcements. oops.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Home AC stuff is supposedly scheduled for sometime this half of the year, I might suggest borrowing something or waiting to see how they pan out, alternatively the haplite is pretty decent as a hold over.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Looks like they released the CCR1072. Multiple cores, but doesn't seem like some of the services are properly multithreaded. ex. BGP

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

thebigcow posted:

MOAR CORES *uses two*

The bigger deal is that its all SFP+ except for a single gig Ethernet port for setup and it has redundant power supplies with fancy clip things to hold the cords. I don't know where it compares to it's competition at 3k but it seems at that price point dealing with Latvian QA isn't worth the savings.

Price/performance is awesome compared to some of the access devices that we use here, but that's apples to oranges. Can't compare Cisco/Ciena support to Latvia.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
It almost sounds like that you've hit the physical interface speed, what devices are you using?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Running into a couple of things that cursory googlefu is failing me on, or perhaps i'm not wrapping my head around the information right.

NAT64 - I don't see anything specifically mentioning this on the wiki, is it a function that's there, but might be labeled as something else?

DHCPv6 - For the life of me, I can't manage to get a host to pull in a DHCPv6 address, but I've been hearing that the Mikrotik implementation is half baked, I'm not sure exactly what I'm missing here. I definitely want to be able to see what leases are handed out.

IPv6 Hostnames - When DHCP hands out addresses, it's able to get a reflection of what the hostname that currently has the IP address, any word on that here?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
So apparently they managed to add the ability to add RSA keys to RouterOS. For whatever reason, I still can't get the things to function right. I still get incorrect passkey, even when the key isn't set up with one? Has anyone successfully got them to work?

I'm generating them with Putty and using Winbox to transfer them over there, and add them. I also tried the command line and still didn't work.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Interestingly enough, I'm able to scp something generated by ssh-keygen that is rsa and get it to work. Putty still is a mystery, though.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
Q3 came and went, no home AC Tik's. Sad.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

Phayray posted:

I'm looking for a new gigabit/wireless router for home use - is this the go-to model for what I need? http://routerboard.com/RB951G-2HnD

Anyone else have one of these? What do you think?

I've got two of them set up, and they do pretty well and have good signal. I've had problems with the new haplites signal dropping where it wasn't strong enough, but these were fine. That is entirely anecdotal though. Apparently, there are supposed to be new versions of them capable of doing AC on the horizon, that they pushed out, so if you don't need it right away, it may be worth waiting.

From a router standpoint, I've saturated the processor using qos, ipsec tunnels, and firewall rules. Should be able to do up to 100mb if you don't overdo it.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
http://routerboard.com/RB962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

HAP AC page is up on routerboard.com, seen prices on streakwave for 106 + shipping.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
I think at this juncture that we should add Ubiquiti in the thread title and first page. They generally are pretty close in their price/performance/function and inhabit the same market space, plus we also talk about them a lot.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
CCRs (get the one based on your port needs) should be able to handle that based on your requirement.

Ubnt Edgerouter or Edgerouter Pro would probably be the competitor in this space/price.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

thebigcow posted:

I think there's still a free version of vyatta if you need another option.

VYoS is the open source community fork of Vyatta.

https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page

Here's the article detailing IPsec tunnel blah blah

https://wiki.vyos.net/wiki/GRE/IPsec

Hope this helps.

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
In relation to MaskPumpkin's stuff earlier, what does the ending of these mean/do?


add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting connection-mark=no-mark dst-address-type=!local in-interface=LAN new-connection-mark="DSL Connection" per-connection-classifier=both-addresses:2/0
add action=mark-connection chain=prerouting connection-mark=no-mark dst-address-type=!local in-interface=LAN new-connection-mark="3G Connection" per-connection-classifier=both-addresses:2/1

I don't understand the both-address:2/0, and 2/1, anyone shed some light?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

SamDabbers posted:

New thread title?

Mikrotik: Purely a software fuckup

:parrot: ROS 7 anytime now. :parrot:

:negative:

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
That reminds me, how do you guys handle BGP if you're using these for full tables? ASR1k/9k?

Atreus
Sep 20, 2005
zennik,

Do you have any recommendations on Alcatel stuff that might be economical enough to purchase for home labbing/use that gives good feelings for TiMOS? We're going to start using more 7750's here and I need something as economical and analogous as possible so I can get a better feeling for it and be ahead of the curve on it.

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Atreus
Sep 20, 2005

redeyes posted:

I just rebooted my 5Ghz RB911G AP and suddenly it has a password I don't know. This makes me unhappy. It has always lived behind my firewall

[edit] Well that is loving nice, its got an unknown default password now, after a reset. I did the 6.43r23 firmware.

[edit] Aaand all I had to do was upgrade Winbox. It was telling me I had the wrong password before (there was none).

This poo poo hosed me up to, instead of prompting the winbox update like it had in the past. You're not alone. I nuked my TIK back to default and when it still wouldn't let me in, I realized it was Winbox. Hooray for backups.

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