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PhireSide said:
Anyone here had any experience with the Mikrotik range of wireless AP's? Coming from a Unifi AP AC LR, what would I miss if I got one of these?

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Having everything manageable from one system (Winbox) would be nice, but I have heard the Mikrotik stuff can be tricky to setup and get going. Also, I think the Unifi stuff has spoilt me but my unit seems to be flaking more and more lately, granted it is 7 years old now.

Probably eyeing something like the u6-Lite if I don't decide to go the Tik route.
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Not too bad to setup.
But I would rather get a newer Unifi.
Use Mikrotik for routing and Unifi for WiFi.
 
I hope this information helps someone in the future - I spent a bit of time stuck on this.

I'm running DHCPv6 relay on a MikroTik and needed devices to use their DHCPv6-assigned addresses instead of SLAAC addressing.

To prevent the Mikrotik from advertising the prefix information while still sending Router Advertisements (so devices can get a default gateway), you need to disable the autonomous flag (A-Flag) under /ipv6/nd/prefix

Example:
/ipv6 nd prefix default
set autonomous=no

Alternatively, use advertise=no and add prefix in /ipv6/nd/prefix manually with whatever parameters you need.
 
5/22 13:57
RouterOS 7.19 [stable]

What's new in 7.19 (2025-May-22 10:53):

*) arm64 - fixed possible transmit queue timeout on CCR2216, CCR2116, RDS2216;
*) arp - added warning, when "Published" ARP entry used on an interface with "reply-only" ARP mode enabled;
*) bgp - added input.filter-community;
*) bgp - fixed excessive CPU usage;
*) bgp - fixed input.accept-community;
*) bgp - fixed memory leak on receiving notify and closing session;
*) bgp - improved performance on BGP input;
*) bonding - added setting for LACP active/passive modes;
*) bridge - added new STP monitoring fields for bridge and ports (Tx/Rx BPDU, Tx/Rx TC, forward/discard transitions, last topology change, message-age, max-age, remaining-hops, bridge-id);
*) bridge - fixed bridge port hang when using invalid port IDs;
*) bridge - fixed dhcp-snooping in QinQ setups;
*) bridge - fixed issue when local MACs were removed unnecessarily;
*) bridge - fixed minor memory leak on link down;
*) bridge - fixed multicast packet flow on hardware offloaded bridge which acts as "multicast-router";
*) bridge - improved default bridge and port layout on console and GUI;
*) bridge - improved stability in case of configuration error (introduced in v7.15);
*) bridge - moved "TCHANGE" logs from bridge,stp to bridge,stp,debug;
*) bridge - offload VXLAN only if another HW offloaded port exists in the bridge;
*) bridge - properly flush bridge hosts when bonding is used as bridge port and loses hw-offloading status;
*) bridge - rename "ports" to "interface" under MDB table for configuration consistency with other menus;
*) bridge - renamed STP monitor fields (port-number to port-id, designated-port-number to designated-port-id, designated-bridge to designated-bridge-id);
*) bridge - show designated-* monitor field for all port roles;
*) bridge - show warning instead of causing error when using multicast MAC as admin-mac (introduced in v7.17);
*) bth - properly specify "in-interfac...
 
DStvNothingOn said:
5/22 13:57
RouterOS 7.19 [stable]

What's new in 7.19 (2025-May-22 10:53):

*) arm64 - fixed possible transmit queue timeout on CCR2216, CCR2116, RDS2216;
*) arp - added warning, when "Published" ARP entry used on an interface with "reply-only" ARP mode enabled;
*) bgp - added input.filter-community;
*) bgp - fixed excessive CPU usage;
*) bgp - fixed input.accept-community;
*) bgp - fixed memory leak on receiving notify and closing session;
*) bgp - improved performance on BGP input;
*) bonding - added setting for LACP active/passive modes;
*) bridge - added new STP monitoring fields for bridge and ports (Tx/Rx BPDU, Tx/Rx TC, forward/discard transitions, last topology change, message-age, max-age, remaining-hops, bridge-id);
*) bridge - fixed bridge port hang when using invalid port IDs;
*) bridge - fixed dhcp-snooping in QinQ setups;
*) bridge - fixed issue when local MACs were removed unnecessarily;
*) bridge - fixed minor memory leak on link down;
*) bridge - fixed multicast packet flow on hardware offloaded bridge which acts as "multicast-router";
*) bridge - improved default bridge and port layout on console and GUI;
*) bridge - improved stability in case of configuration error (introduced in v7.15);
*) bridge - moved "TCHANGE" logs from bridge,stp to bridge,stp,debug;
*) bridge - offload VXLAN only if another HW offloaded port exists in the bridge;
*) bridge - properly flush bridge hosts when bonding is used as bridge port and loses hw-offloading status;
*) bridge - rename "ports" to "interface" under MDB table for configuration consistency with other menus;
*) bridge - renamed STP monitor fields (port-number to port-id, designated-port-number to designated-port-id, designated-bridge to designated-bridge-id);
*) bridge - show designated-* monitor field for all port roles;
*) bridge - show warning instead of causing error when using multicast MAC as admin-mac (introduced in v7.17);
*) bth - properly specify "in-interfac...
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7.19 is now the latest update you can get on any of the channels.
The dev channel is running 7.19rc3 which is older than 7.19.

RouterOS v7 has a very different dev cycle to v6. The v6 days were wild in comparison.
 
RouterOS 7.19.1 [stable]
May 26th 2025, 07:51
What's new in 7.19.1 (2025-May-23 17:27):

*) certificate – fixed support for certificates imported or added in RouterOS v7.4 or earlier (introduced in v7.19);
*) console - improved stability when a running script is removed;
*) container - stability improvements;
*) disk - fixed RAID component size to match the value in the superblock;
*) disk - improved handling of RAID spare disks;
*) disk - improved stability when using RAID;
*) ethernet - fixed flow-control for RB5009;
*) iot - fixed incorrectly shown LoRa payload RSSI values;
*) poe-out - fixed PoE-out reset when inserting specific SFP modules on RB5009;
*) poe-out - upgraded firmware for 802.3at PSE controlled boards (the update will cause brief power interruption to PoE-out interfaces);
*) routing-filter - use zero as default as-path length (allows matching empty as path);
*) sfp - correctly classify 100Mbps modules as "100M-baseFX";
 
Anyone experiencing any stability issues on 7.19.1?

I've now had the router lock up twice this weekend where I needed to do a power-off restart to get it back up again. Earlier today it hung as well but recovered (was unresponsive to pings for 1-2mins) so I don't know what to make of this. Nothing in the logs and everything else with the router seems to be working as it should.

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What's new in 7.19.2 (2025-Jun-20 10:55):



*) bfd - fixed socket leak;

*) bgp - fixed withdraw when input.accept-nlri is non-existent;

*) btest - properly close unsuccessful TCP test sockets;

*) console - added prompt to /disk/format command;

*) disk - do not allow to start Btrfs replace command when a Btrfs replace process is already running;

*) disk - improve disk file system detection;

*) hotspot - allow only "http:" and "https:" schemas in dst field;

*) iot - added LoRa interface recovery mechanism;

*) iot - LoRa stability improvement;

*) iot - LR8G/9G firmware update;

*) ip-service - fixed "print count-only interval" when dynamic entries are added (introduced in v7.19);

*) ip-service - fixed setting services by name (introduced in v7.19);

*) ipsec - fixed responder on key exchange compute failure (introduced in v7.19);

*) ipv6 - do not show IPv6 FastPath as active when connection tracking or IPsec is used;

*) l2tp-ether - fixed interface creation/removal process;

*) lte - added support for R11e-LTE6 v039 firmware release;

*) lte - do not dial further if modem detects eSIM without profiles;

*) lte - fixed eSIM management function for mmips and mipsbe architecture CPUs;

*) lte - fixed eSIM provisioning for servers that do not send content-length in the HTTP response;

*) route - fixed destination ordering for SNMP;

*) route - fixed SNMP probing of IPv6 routes;

*) route - make routing table print faster with hw-offload, gateway and blackhole queries;

*) switch - fixed ACL rules when ports are not specified (fixes dynamic rules for RoMON);

*) switch - fixed advertise and speed settings for ether1 on RB5009 (introduced in v7.19.1);

*) webfig - improved screen reader support for WiFi fields in Quickset;

*) webfig - make combobox accessible to screen readers;

*) webfig - more space to branding logo;

*) wifi-qcom - fixed beacon loss issues and improved stability for IPQ-6018;

*) wifi-qcom - improved regulatory compliance;

*) winbox - fixed "Last Topology Change" for bridge port monitor;
 
7.19.3 dropped:


*) bridge - allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled;
*) iot - LoRa LNS stability improvement;
*) lte - AT modems, fixed typos in commands sent to modem when APN with authentication is used (AT+CGAUTH; AT$QCPDPP);
*) lte - R11e-LTE and R11e-LTE6, fixed possible crash on device unexpected removal or during RouterOS shutdown;
*) mpls - improved stability when handling VPLS packets;
*) radius - fixed RADIUS client section becoming unresponsive when RadSec is configured, but server is not responding;
*) radius - fixed wrong RadSec port number in logs;
*) radius - properly verify certificate when RadSec is used;
*) sfp - added sfp-power-class and sfp-max-power monitor values for QSFP;
*) supout - added IPv6 NAT section;
*) switch - fixed ACL rules with "redirect-to-cpu" (introduced in v7.19.2);
*) switch - fixed bonding issues after switch reset (introduced in v7.18);
*) switch - fixed port blocking with spanning tree on EN7523 switch (introduced in v7.19);
*) swos - changed firmware file location (URL) for software update checks;
*) system - reduced RouterOS ARM package size;
*) winbox - show/hide corresponding fields when switching RADIUS client mode between RadSec and UDP;
 
PhireSide said:
7.19.3 dropped:


*) bridge - allow IPv6 FastPath when dhcp-snooping is enabled;
*) iot - LoRa LNS stability improvement;
*) lte - AT modems, fixed typos in commands sent to modem when APN with authentication is used (AT+CGAUTH; AT$QCPDPP);
*) lte - R11e-LTE and R11e-LTE6, fixed possible crash on device unexpected removal or during RouterOS shutdown;
*) mpls - improved stability when handling VPLS packets;
*) radius - fixed RADIUS client section becoming unresponsive when RadSec is configured, but server is not responding;
*) radius - fixed wrong RadSec port number in logs;
*) radius - properly verify certificate when RadSec is used;
*) sfp - added sfp-power-class and sfp-max-power monitor values for QSFP;
*) supout - added IPv6 NAT section;
*) switch - fixed ACL rules with "redirect-to-cpu" (introduced in v7.19.2);
*) switch - fixed bonding issues after switch reset (introduced in v7.18);
*) switch - fixed port blocking with spanning tree on EN7523 switch (introduced in v7.19);
*) swos - changed firmware file location (URL) for software update checks;
*) system - reduced RouterOS ARM package size;
*) winbox - show/hide corresponding fields when switching RADIUS client mode between RadSec and UDP;
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Updated 2 devices and all good.
 
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