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Telstra Mobile Options
by Paul Julian 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Hi All, I know this has been talked about before and I have been playing around with some options but I was hoping I could draw on some real life experiences from others. I am trying to get a decent Telstra Mobile signal in a rural area, doing my research I can see that there is a Telstra Mobile site 31 km's away which supports 3G 850Mhz and 4G 700Mhz. There is another site which is 24km away which has 3G 850Mhz and 4G 1800Mhz on it, I think the first site would be a better line of sight then the closer one. My iPhone 6 drifts between 2-3 bars of 3G and sometimes 1 bar of 4G at the location, however data speed is pretty sad at around 1.5-2Mbit/s when it actually works. Currently I am using a Routerboard 411U with a Sierra Wireless MC8705 PCIe modem and a 7dbi omni antenna which is external, I figure it's only connecting to the 850Mhz 3G as it only supports that band out of the bands available at the towers. I have thought about using the SXTLTE model as it supports 1800Mhz but would that do the job as only one site supports 1800Mhz and I am not 100% sure which site I am actually reaching at the moment ? What would people suggest in this case ? Should I upgrade to a newer modem and stick with the existing setup and if so which one ? Should I use a better antenna ? I would appreciate any suggestions as I need to get some reliable data there and am hoping to get around 5-10Mbit/s if at all possible. Thanks Paul

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BGP with multiple global route tables on RouterOS
by Philip Loenneker 23 Jan '17

23 Jan '17

Hi all, We have previously used CCRs for BGP transit peers, but found that the delay in BGP with global routes updating the routing table was slower than we would like. This was mainly due to the fact that the BGP process only runs on a single thread so even a upgrading to a CCR1072 is not going to improve it. We built a couple of CHRs with iBGP between them. They perform better because each individual core is faster than the CCR cores, but they still really struggle when there are significant changes to the route table. One of the CPU cores sits at 100% for an extended period of time while the other core sits at almost nothing, and occasionally all of the BGP peers to drop their sessions from timeouts while it is in this state. As the peers re-establish, the route table has a lot more updates to process and so we get in a bit of a vicious circle until the it can manage to get through it all. Does anyone else have experience with global route tables (preferably multiple) on RouterOS? Does anyone have any advice on how we can increase the performance? Throwing more cores at the CHRs doesn't seem like it would have much benefit, but is something we have been considering. We are open to suggestions of alternative platforms to replace or integrate with the design. Waiting for RouterOS v7 which is meant to be more multithreaded might be an option if we had an actual ETA on it.... :) Regards, Philip Loenneker | Network Engineer | TasmaNet 40-50 Innovation Drive, Dowsing Point, Tas 7010, Australia P: 03 6165 2542 | M: 0404 097 816 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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PMP Wireless Bandwidth
by Paul Julian 16 Jan '17

16 Jan '17

Hi all, We currently use a lot of Mikrotik gear for backhauls in a point to multipoint arrangement mostly with some PTP links as well. We do this as we are limited on mast space and frequency as we use the 5ghz band and PMP licensed stuff is really not possible in dense areas in which we operate. We typically bring 1 or 2 fibre connections into an area and then redistribute the bandwidth using wireless, the area is pretty busy frequency wise but we seem to have our network running nicely at the moment. We also operate under carrier licensing and take advantage of the low impact install rules, sometimes we are able to stretch that a little but that also limits what we can put on a roof within reason. We currently run on 3 frequencies in most areas, usually with a sector servicing the majority of the locations and sometimes one or two PTP links as well, it just depends on the design needed, but usually we can get away with getting to use the spectrum we need. We are starting to see NBN rolling into the areas where we cover and want to compete with our own network, we have the resources and transit and peering capacities but our wireless gear just isn't capable of delivering the bandwidth we need to aggregated backhauls to buildings that we service. I'm interested to know how other people manage this, if they have been able to, I am really not interested in providing faster than 50M plans to customers as an NBN equivalent plan, but being able to service just a handful of users at those speeds would top out any Mikrotik radio, especially on 5ghz band, or most radios that I can think of, and apart from running our own fibre or buying more I can't see any options. If we need to buy more fibre then it shoots our pricing out of reach and it would be a waste of time so I am really trying to find a way to get the most out of our wireless networks as we have quite a lot of locations we service now. Thanks Paul

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vrf on mikrotik
by Alex Samad - Yieldbroker 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hi I asked earlier, thought I would just double check. CCR1036 - looking at using this as my exterior WAN connector / Router. But I want to setup a management port (actually a VLAN) so I want to place that interface and some routes into its own VRF. I have just setup some arista switches which I have done the same - so all the management traffic traverses 1 port. I can see in /ip route vrf I can add routes to a route mark name space. How do I add all packet coming in on a specific interface to a VRF, do I use the firewall mangle table, and basically mark all the packet with the route mark I want to use. Is that it ?? Thanks Alex

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Replace Outdoor AP in Sydney
by Ben Farmer 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Hi guys, Apologies if this is off-topic, but I couldn't seem to find a more suitable place to put this. I'm looking for some remote hands who will be able to assist in replacing an outdoor access point and PoE injector at Lansvale in Sydney. Mikrotik knowledge could come in handy if we have any dramas (however I'm not expecting any, cross fingers). If anyone is able to assist, or knows of anyone who can help, please contact me off-list. Cheers. Regards, Ben Farmer.

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OSPF redistribute-connected in a VRF?
by Damien Gardner Jnr 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Hey Folks, So my project while on my week off from work has been to build Miss 7 a PC. Which takes a lot more work than you'd first think, since I want it behind something doing a LOT of filtering :D After a lot of playing, I ended up with a Sophos UTM. Those things are very cool, and they provide a free virtual appliance license for home use, so I ran it up in Xenserver, and it's working a treat. Finished the computer yesterday, and today I sat down to quickly run a VRF up between home and the DC (where the UTM is running). The kids now have their own vlan at home, instead of being mixed in with the missus and I, and all our various devices (you know, the usual, xbox, wii, various roku players, the bathroom scales, etc ;). We already have an EOIP tunnel with a few vlans between home and the DC, so I just created one more, popped it into a VRF, and created a new OSPF instance. And then things fell apart ;) So Home Router can see DC Router and vice versa over the EOIP Vlan, OSPF comes up. And then the connected routes on each end do not show. SHOULD this work? I can do static routes if I have to, but I want to do a mesh config with two routers at each end (VM's for pure tunnelling grunt, being backed up by the CRS-109's at each end when the VM's are down), so OSPF would make things easier.. I've disabled my default OSPF instance on both ends for now to make debugging easier. My config looks like: Home End: /interface eoip add allow-fast-path=no !keepalive local-address=<HOME_RTR_IP> name=EOIP_SY3_PRIMARY remote-address=<SYD_RTR_IP> tunnel-id=1 /interface vlan add interface=EOIP_SY3_PRIMARY loop-protect-disable-time=0s loop-protect-send-interval=0s name=VLAN_EOIP_SY3_KIDS vlan-id=42 /routing ospf instance add name=ospf_kids redistribute-connected=as-type-1 redistribute-static=as-type-1 \ router-id=192.168.12.18 routing-table=KIDS /routing ospf area add area-id=1.1.1.1 instance=ospf_kids name=area_kids /ip address add address=192.168.12.18/28 interface=KIDS network=192.168.12.16 add address=192.168.10.26/30 interface=VLAN_EOIP_SY3_KIDS network=192.168.10.24 /ip route vrf add export-route-targets=65535:102 import-route-targets=65535:102 interfaces=KIDS,VLAN_EOIP_SY3_KIDS route-distin 65535:102 routing-mark=KIDS /routing ospf interface add interface=VLAN_EOIP_SY3_KIDS network-type=broadcast /routing ospf network add area=area_kids network=192.168.10.24/30 DC End: /interface eoip add allow-fast-path=no !keepalive local-address=<SYD_RTR_IP> name=EOIP_WYONG_PRIMARY remote-address=<HOME_RTR_IP> tunnel-id=1 /interface vlan add interface=EOIP_WYONG_PRIMARY name=VLAN_EOIP_WYONG_KIDS vlan-id=42 add interface=vlan41 name=vlan42_KIDS vlan-id=42 /routing ospf instance add name=ospf_kids redistribute-connected=as-type-1 redistribute-static=\ as-type-1 router-id=192.168.10.25 routing-table=KIDS /routing ospf area add area-id=1.1.1.1 instance=ospf_kids name=area_kids /ip address add address=192.168.12.34/29 interface=vlan42_KIDS network=192.168.12.32 add address=192.168.10.25/30 interface=VLAN_EOIP_WYONG_KIDS network=\ 192.168.10.24 /ip route vrf add export-route-targets=65535:102 import-route-targets=65535:102 interfaces=\ vlan42_KIDS,VLAN_EOIP_WYONG_KIDS route-distinguisher=65535:102 \ routing-mark=KIDS /routing ospf network add area=area_kids network=192.168.10.24/30 If I show the OSPF routes on the sydney end, I only see the EOIP VLAN /30, and the local /29: [someguy@MikroTik] > /routing ospf route print detail 0 instance=ospf_kids dst-address=192.168.10.24/30 state=intra-area gateway=0.0.0.0 interface=VLAN_EOIP_WYONG_KIDS cost=10 area=area_kids 1 instance=ospf_kids dst-address=192.168.12.32/29 state=imported-ext-1 gateway="" interface="" cost=20 area=external Any thoughts? I've spent basically the entire day at it, and it's just not working :/ Thanks, Damien -- Damien Gardner Jnr VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust rendrag(a)rendrag.net - http://www.rendrag.net/ -- We rode on the winds of the rising storm, We ran to the sounds of thunder. We danced among the lightning bolts, and tore the world asunder

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Wireless at a Distance
by Dave Browning 23 Dec '16

23 Dec '16

Lads, Any Mikrotik device suggestions for a device we can set on a wall that’ll service WiFi clients about 40 metres away in one direction. A P2P link with a station in the middle of the serviceable area isn't an option currently, I know would be better solution. Dave Browning | Network Engineer P 07 3369 7666 Level 1, 12 Railway Tce, Milton QLD 4064 This email and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information for the exclusive use of the intended recipient. If you received this email in error please notify Sentrian Pty Ltd immediately by return email to the sender and delete the original email. We do not guarantee that this email or any attached files are free of viruses. All recipients should undertake their own virus scanning.

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New switch
by Alex Samad - Yieldbroker 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

Hi Saw this in the last email. CRS317-1G-16S+RM (coming in 2017/Q2) Sounds interesting ... any idea of pricing and throughput ? Alex Alex Samad | Network And System Manager | Yieldbroker * +61 2 9994 2893 | ( +61 438 838 143 | * alex.samad(a)yieldbroker.com<mailto:alex.samad@yieldbroker.com> This email is confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you may have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Recipients should not forward, disclose, distribute or copy this e-mail or any attachments in whole or part without the express permission of the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where they are specifically stated to be those of Yieldbroker. Yieldbroker accepts no liability for the content of this email, or for the consequences of any actions taken on the basis of the information provided, unless that information is subsequently confirmed in writing. Yieldbroker can not guarantee the integrity of this communication and shall not be liable for e-mail which may be intercepted, corrupted, lost, spoofed, delayed, incomplete, or virus infected.

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positioning filter rules
by Karl Auer 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

I have a script that adds filter rules. The rules are the sort that need to precede others, so I have "place- before=0" in the script. Mostly, that doesn't work. It fails with this message: the item referred by 'place-before' does not exist (11) This is demonstrably untrue. There are plenty of rules. It *seems* that if I manually print a rule listing before running my script, this error doesn't happen. That's not a useful solution... Stumped. Ideas? Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer(a)nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160 GPG fingerprint: 6D59 8AE6 810D 44E3 7626 7040 4DD6 F89F 3053 4774 Old fingerprint: 9DCA 0903 BCBD 0647 BCCC 2FA7 A35C 57A1 ACF9 00BB

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RB1100 Rack-Mount Ears
by Ben Farmer 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi guys, We've had a few RB's come back as of late with missing ears (I'm not sure what the techs do with them, I think they get hungry). Does anyone know of a business that sells these sorts of spares? It looks like a few in the US sell them, but I'm hoping someone local has them. Cheers! Regards, Ben Farmer

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