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Concentric

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I just got a mikrotik routerboard. I want to use it as my primary router for my fiber connection. Every time i try to input my log in details it still wont connect. never used a mikrotik before.Currently got my fiber running on an old netis router with just the ppoe username and password. is it a different method with the mikrotik?
 
Mikrotik tends to be a bit more complicated. Did you look at recipes online?
 
Hamish McPanji said:
Mikrotik tends to be a bit more complicated. Did you look at recipes online?
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ye im a complete noob. what are recipes? im not trying to do anything fancy for now...just trying to get an internet connection.
 
davidc75 said:
but i did manage to connect with my other router....
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Aaah okay.

By other you mean a third router? Not the original working one.

Any errors in the logs?

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I don't have one in front of me but the PPPoE interface is virtually "attached" to the WAN gateway port.

Maybe post a screenshot of the PPPoE screen? Could be something obvious.

Did you reset to the default configuration?
 
Like Ronnie has here. But you need to also nat your traffic.

Also add default route isn't the best way. Rather create it statically.

If you up and running, start looking at getting a good firewall up ASAP.
 
HApyM3al said:
Like Ronnie has here. But you need to also nat your traffic.

Also add default route isn't the best way. Rather create it statically.

If you up and running, start looking at getting a good firewall up ASAP.
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The default config on these "home versions" should just work out of the box with masquerading and Natting, Default routes and Deny All incoming firewalls setup already.
 
I need to setup something that seems simple to me in my mind but I don't work intimately enough with RouterOS to be able to do it quickly and easily.

Would someone be prepared to quote on writing the necessary scripts based on the requirement below?

High Level Requirement:
- Two ISP's; ISP1 active 17h55 - 23h45; ISP2 - active 24/7
- Approx 24 devices on the network

I want to
- create two pools of IP addresses
- assign about 18 of the devices to the one pool and the rest to the other pool
- Force devices in Pool 1 to use ISP1 during it's active time period (the rest of the time use ISP2)
- Force devices in Pool 2 to use ISP2 all the time

So I know that I need to do the following:

a. Setup the Pools
b. Manually assign the devices to respective pools (via Static IP's)
c. Create Mangle Rules and Mark the traffic from the pools/devices in order to
d. Use the Marks to route the traffic to the respective ISP's

The reason for this is that ISP1 is uncapped but constrained to 10 meg - the other is capped but runs at 40, and there are 4 specific devices that I want to be running on the 40 meg line all the time (the 10 meg uncapped ISP is fine for the kids YouTube and Netflix).

PS I currently have simple queues and scripts in place that switches to the appropriate ISP on a time based schedule.
 
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get rid of the 10mb line, use the savings of that to bump the 40mbps line to "uncapped" and then just QoS the kids usage down to 10mbps during those hours?
 
halfmoonforever said:
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get rid of the 10mb line, use the savings of that to bump the 40mbps line to "uncapped" and then just QoS the kids usage down to 10mbps during those hours?
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No, 'cos I use the 10 meg account at another site during the day (with about 8 users hanging off it), it's dirt cheap (it's one of those original Vox Fatpipe specials) and has ton of rollover data effectively making is uncapped during the day.

:D besides, I know that the Mikrotik can do this I just don't have the time to go dig and figure out how to set it all up
 
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