Skip to end for actual question. Otherwise: I have a spare/test Mikrotik 951G 2HnD here at home. We've been through many adventures together. I trust it. I think it trusts me. Today I thought: CAPSMAN looks interesting! I took my trusty spare router, did the reset thing and put it into CAP mode. Configured up another router as a manager and it all worked swimmingly. Still have to figure out multiple SSIDs and VLANs, but that is for another day. Tired but happy, and wanting to revert my trusty spare router back to default settings for our next adventure, I pressed the reset pin while plugging in the power, waited the usual few seconds until the ACT light started flashing, and released the pin. The unit remained in CAP mode. Huh. Repeat. Repeat carefully. Repeat even more carefully. Repeat. Repeat. Speak gently to router and repeat. Speak forcefully to router and repeat. Apologise to router and repeat. Sigh. So I read numerous web pages, as one does. It seems a lot of people have difficulty distinguishing flashing LEDs from solid LEDs, distinguishing mode buttons from reset buttons, locating small holes, counting to five, coordinating their limbs etc, but these defects do not apply to me. I have reset this specific router many dozens of times. Possibly hundreds. It has always returned faithfully to a usable default configuration. OK, dragged out NetInstall (Linux version, yay!). It duly sent a new copy of RouterOS7 over to my little friend. Which remained in CAP mode. Kind of expected, so I repeated the process with "-r" to clear the configuration. And finally, finally, my little friend and I fell sobbing into one anothers' arms. So. Did I miss something? Is there a special trick for getting out of CAP mode? Is this behaviour possibly even intended? Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (kauer@nullarbor.com.au) work +61 2 64957435 http://www.nullarbor.com.au mobile +61 428 957160
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