November 2019 - Public - talk.mikrotik.com.au

State of 3G/4G fallback on MikroTik?
by Karl Auer 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

We need to quote to a client for two routers capable of running a VPN between two sites - easy, that's a MikroTik. But they want a fallback to 3G/4G so that the site that falls back keeps Internet access AND so that the VPN keeps running. What's the state of MikroTik 3G/4G fallback? Last I looked it seemed very roll-your-own, and supported only a few very specific dongles... Ideally it would work like the (vastly more expensive) Merakis and just fail everything over to the secondary link if the primary fails, where "fail" would be either a ping test or interface down. That said, I'm OK with a solution that needs more work, as long as once done it is set-and-forget. Any pointers? Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer(a)nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 GPG fingerprint: 887A DA07 4DCC EE76 B413 27D4 C638 4189 6CF0 D556 Old fingerprint: 8454 EE43 6215 B6DD 1B4D 9D8D 984D 7BA1 7378 A38D

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Axiom Cyber Shield
by Philip Loenneker 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi all, After seeing their presentation at the Melbourne MUM, we've been having a look at Axiom Cyber Shield. Is anyone on here using it and happy to provide some feedback, on-list or off-list? It certainly sounds like a good product, but I only seem to be able to find sales pitch information, not unbiased reviews. Regards, Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet 40-50 Innovation Drive, Dowsing Point, Tas 7010, Australia P: 1300 792 711 philip.loenneker(a)tasmanet.com.au<mailto:philip.loenneker@tasmanet.com.au> www.tasmanet.com.au<http://www.tasmanet.com.au/>

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Re: [MT-AU Public] upgrade from RB2011UiAS to something faster - RB450Gx4 ?
by Chris Herrmann 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Sounds like the RB3011 will fit the bill... I don't quite need to push 1.8Gbps per stream :) The RB3011/4011 are both more $$ than the RB450Gx4 or 750Gr3. If the extra $ are necessary to meet what i want then that's fine, but if the smaller unit will do it - then that would be better as it's smaller... presumably lower power and cheaper. @Russell I think the VLAN on switch chip might be the thing that tripped me up with one of the other units I played with, in which case the 3011 would be a better option? Cheers, Chris

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RB760iGS with PS180-T VDSL SFP
by Darryl Ross 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hey All, I have a client that has 8 sites, all of them are going to be ethernet handoff (FTTC or HFC) except for one site that is going to be FTTB (VDSL). I'm planning on dropping RB760iGS into each store. I see on the duxtel site that the VSDL SFP module has passed compliance testing in September, does that mean it's now been approved for use on the NBN or just that its compliant with the specs? Anyone had issues running one in the desktop MTs? -Darryl

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NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC
by Chris Herrmann 24 Nov '19

24 Nov '19

Thanks everyone, HFC is alive again... and I'm up and running. Thankyou for all the suggestions. A couple of things tripped me up: * My attempt to use a different native VLAN didn't work - DHCP wouldn't pick up an IP because it was coming with no VLAN tag / nothing, but the interface was set to a different native VLAN. It's not in the bridge so i figured it really wasn't a big deal. * It kept using the old ADSL connection as the default route. Both had a routing cost of 1, but the new route had a flag "DS" instead of DAC and would only route to the next hop. I ended up modifying the routing cost of the ADSL to get around this. Now the ADSL is higher than the NBN, so effectively it's unused (which is fine). I'll leave the ADSL connected for a while until I'm satisfied that the NBN is actually working ok. * IPSEC just got really unhappy. It refused to connect on either the old WAN or new WAN. in the end I moved the VPN to the new WAN, but the thing that messed it up was that the /ip ipsec policy just borked - they had the old sa-src-address in there. So I updated that using /ip ipsec policy edit 1 sa-src-address <update to new IP> peer peer1 #This had become null and wasn't working after that it all started working and it's working well now. I've compared backups of the config and it looks like it freaked out and corrupted the peer value, and then because there was no peer it didn't update the sa-src-address values. getting 92/40 so pretty happy with that... so long as HFC doesn't fall over again... Cheers, Chris

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Re: [MT-AU Public] Public Digest, Vol 69, Issue 4
by kevin＠scottsip.com.au 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

According to AussieBroadband DSL Mode/Interface Type: Ethernet Wan Internet Connection Type: Dynamic or IPOE or DHCP No VLAN ID So as you have done so already isolate ether10, remove it from the bridge... use dhcp client for ether10 Set up a route to 0.0.0.0 via ether10 (IP Address allocated to the nic) Set up a masquerade rule to use ether10 as the new outbound wan port. You may also need to change or add a few DNS settings depending on the provider. Go to grc.com and use shields up in case you have inadvertently opened up your firewall and network to the outside world Block anything that you need and happy internetting. Regards, Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Public <public-bounces(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au> On Behalf Of public-request(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au Sent: Saturday, 23 November 2019 12:00 PM To: public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: Public Digest, Vol 69, Issue 4 Send Public mailing list submissions to public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to public-request(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au You can reach the person managing the list at public-owner(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Public digest..." Today's Topics: 1. NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC (Chris Herrmann) 2. Re: NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC (Chris Herrmann) 3. Re: NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC (Andrew Oakeley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:36:34 +1100 From: Chris Herrmann <chrisherrmann7(a)gmail.com> To: public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: [MT-AU Public] NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC Message-ID: <CAE+JXUWyiz1K_GVvGxUgymEhezOS0KOWjkSUL9+7f7wdb=9cmA(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi guys, Aussiebroadband HFC NBN getting installed today. Does anyone have some pointers for what I'm missing... What I need to achieve is port10 acting as a DHCP client on Native VLAN. I've broken port 10 out of the bridge, and set it to native / default VLAN 11 (because I don't want it on the default VLAN 1). What I can't work out, is how to tell it to make the interface act as a DHCP client (which I'm guessing should in turn build default routes etc etc etc)? I've tried creating a VLAN interface under the physical but this doesn't have any DHCP client options either... I don't need PPPOE - I just need DHCP. Any suggestions? Thanks! Chris ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 14:38:56 +1100 From: Chris Herrmann <chrisherrmann7(a)gmail.com> To: public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC Message-ID: <CAE+JXUX3T7ngpU5Ag_pAs+KU06Lon8Q4AxRD42He-d+0xoGbZQ(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" d'oh /ip dhcp-client now I just need the nbn outage in my area to go away... On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 14:36, Chris Herrmann <chrisherrmann7(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Aussiebroadband HFC NBN getting installed today. Does anyone have some > pointers for what I'm missing... > > What I need to achieve is port10 acting as a DHCP client on Native VLAN. > > I've broken port 10 out of the bridge, and set it to native / default > VLAN > 11 (because I don't want it on the default VLAN 1). > > What I can't work out, is how to tell it to make the interface act as > a DHCP client (which I'm guessing should in turn build default routes > etc etc etc)? > > I've tried creating a VLAN interface under the physical but this > doesn't have any DHCP client options either... > > I don't need PPPOE - I just need DHCP. Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Chris > ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 03:48:46 +0000 From: Andrew Oakeley <andrew(a)oakeley.com.au> To: MikroTik Australia Public List <public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au> Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC Message-ID: <MEXPR01MB0855EA427FFD1CB8C796106DF4490(a)MEXPR01MB0855.ausprd01.prod.outlook. com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Don't forget to add the following on that interface too - Drop All firewall rule on the input chain - masquerade rule on the outbound traffic from that interface in NAT Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Public <public-bounces(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au> On Behalf Of Chris Herrmann Sent: Friday, 22 November 2019 11:39 AM To: public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au Subject: Re: [MT-AU Public] NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC d'oh /ip dhcp-client now I just need the nbn outage in my area to go away... On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 14:36, Chris Herrmann <chrisherrmann7(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > Aussiebroadband HFC NBN getting installed today. Does anyone have some > pointers for what I'm missing... > > What I need to achieve is port10 acting as a DHCP client on Native VLAN. > > I've broken port 10 out of the bridge, and set it to native / default > VLAN > 11 (because I don't want it on the default VLAN 1). > > What I can't work out, is how to tell it to make the interface act as > a DHCP client (which I'm guessing should in turn build default routes > etc etc etc)? > > I've tried creating a VLAN interface under the physical but this > doesn't have any DHCP client options either... > > I don't need PPPOE - I just need DHCP. Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Chris > _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Public mailing list Public(a)talk.mikrotik.com.au http://talk.mikrotik.com.au/mailman/listinfo/public_talk.mikrotik.com.au ------------------------------ End of Public Digest, Vol 69, Issue 4 *************************************

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NBN DHCP interface config example for Aussiebroadband HFC
by Chris Herrmann 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Hi guys, Aussiebroadband HFC NBN getting installed today. Does anyone have some pointers for what I'm missing... What I need to achieve is port10 acting as a DHCP client on Native VLAN. I've broken port 10 out of the bridge, and set it to native / default VLAN 11 (because I don't want it on the default VLAN 1). What I can't work out, is how to tell it to make the interface act as a DHCP client (which I'm guessing should in turn build default routes etc etc etc)? I've tried creating a VLAN interface under the physical but this doesn't have any DHCP client options either... I don't need PPPOE - I just need DHCP. Any suggestions? Thanks! Chris

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upgrade from RB2011UiAS to something faster - RB450Gx4 ?
by Chris Herrmann 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Hi all, I've been using the rb2011 for several years now, happy user. I'm about to get faster internet (NBN - please stop snickering), so I'm looking at models that will handle higher throughput and after people's recommendations. Things I care about... * I'm running a few VLANs. there was one rb or Hex model that I played with that didn't handle VLANs as well as the 2011 but I can't remember the reason now. Might have been a software switch and not hardware or something like that. * IPSEC - the 2011 tops out around 16Mbit before it flakes out in my experience. Would like to get more throughput.. if I look at the RB450Gx4 specs and pick the worst-case IPSEC throughput, it claims to do 20Mbit which is better than my real-world experience with the RB2011. * Non-IPSEC NAT - would like it to comfortably handle 100Mbit * I'm running a few other things but nothing that should be too taxing (logging, not a huge number of policies, only a little bit of mangling). * Don't want wifi on it * Don't need POE * Would love to be able to export / import my RB2011 config and have that work :) but I'm guessing it'll have to be a rebuild based upon prior experience switching models. Cheers, Chris

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