Haha - "Get a new one" .. only with MT.
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:22 AM Dennis Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > Get a new one. That’s what we did, replaced it and the issue went away. > Its like the 1072 has some kind of bug, or maybe a leaky cap, that > eventually causes them to do this. No matter of fiddling fixes it, we > swapped out the unit and have not have the same issue since. We have 1072s > running 15gig inbound without issues. So, while I do attest that this is > a MT (rather routeros) issue, we don’t have any data to know where it is > unless the manufacture can tell us. So far they are tight lipped. > > > > > > *[image: LTI-Full_175px]* > > > *Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer MTCNA, MTCRE, MTCWE, MTCTCE, > MTCINE, MTCSE, HE IPv6 Sage, Cambium ePMP Certified * > > Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second Edition” > > *Link Technologies, Inc* -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services > > *Office*: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net > > Create Wireless Coverage’s with www.towercoverage.com > > > > *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of * Steven Kenney > *Sent:* Monday, December 21, 2020 12:56 AM > *To:* af <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > > > Their support is behaving the same way exactly. They told me to take the > watchdog off and allow the internet to be frozen (downtime for all my > customers) whenever it happens at any random point in the day/night while I > rush to log into it with a serial cable. The absurdity of it. Luckily I > told him from day one that I have a CONSOLE SERVER and that I log all the > serial output of all my switches and routers. But even though I told them > that a couple times they still requested I plug in a serial cable and wait > for it to freeze. So I'm like .. hellooo there is a serial cable plugged > in at all times! I told him there is no output. It just reboots. I even > humored him and turned the watchdog off and we had a reboot on the weekend > while the cable was plugged in and the console was logged in. I even had > logging set to echo for a lot of things and nothing.. just a hard freeze. > > > > There is no BGP on this one and the processor is not high leading up to > the crash at all. Updated 5 times already and its just a placebo. They > need to get their shit together. > > > > [image: logo] > <https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-ed4acb70d3fb71b72aeea4066f6012bfa1e2e66e> > > <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed> > <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/> > <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1> > <https://www.youtube.com/user/WaveDirect> > > *STEVEN KENNEY * > *DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY * > > *A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON E: [email protected] > <[email protected]> | P: 519-737-9283 W: > https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-a20d49e3e6a4f958e127c88b05686fb87748d1dd > <https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=www.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-a20d49e3e6a4f958e127c88b05686fb87748d1dd>* > > > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Colin Stanners" <[email protected]> > *To: *"af" <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Monday, December 21, 2020 12:59:09 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Mikrotik 1072 Frustrations > > > > This last year, I've seen a MikroTik CCR1072 switch from long being > rock-solid to now having occasional random reboots (from watchdog) or 100% > CPU usage, which strangles the BGP process. In the latter case, > tools->profile would show the firewall taking 100% of CPU, even after > temporarily disabling all firewall filter and NAT rules and connection > tracking. Not fun. > > > > MT tech support did not seem super helpful or interested, mostly > recommending to disable watchdog (unacceptable on a production router) or > to upgrade firmware (without specifying the suspected cause of the problem > or nature of the fix). > > > > Tried 1 update, that didn't seem to help, have now tried another... > > > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 11:38 PM Steven Kenney <[email protected]> wrote: > > MIkrotik has been rock solid for me for years. Until this year and the > 1072's. Random reboots set off by watchdog timer on all of my 1072's. > Some more than others. Threads in the forum all discuss the same problem > exactly. Its a connection tracking issue.. however I need connection > tracking on one particular router. I've adjusted everything I could. > Firmware and board firmware all up to date etc. Happens randomly with low > levels of traffic, high levels of traffic, sometimes a couple times a > day, sometimes weeks. No DDOS evidence at all from upstream routers. > Configs checked and rechecked by third party experts. I graph everything > about the Mikrotik and there are no clues or anything abnormal happening > before the crash. Plenty of memory, disk space, CPU etc. Replaces all > the trannies, power cables and such. Not running BGP only OSPF on the one > that is giving me the most trouble. > > > > Even have a serial console cable plugged into them to my opengear and set > it to log pretty much everything to console including the kernel and > nothing. A hard freeze. > > > > Then there is Mikrotik support... I've never needed their support before > until now. So I put a ticket in and the shitty attitude I'm getting from > them seems like they KNOW there is something wrong with the hardware and > they are intentionally not being helpful. It is pretty clear to see with > all the people reporting this issue that there IS an issue. > > > > If this is any indication of how things are going to go with Mikrotik on > the newer hardware going forware I think its time to jump to an enterprise > level system. Juniper most likely. Shame because they are just about > keeping up with the demands with their hardware. Getting closer to 100Gbps > etc and ROS7 ... but at their current pace I think we've outgrew them. > > > > All the threads discussing this issue has been absolutely quiet when it > comes to Mikrotik jumping in to mention or try to help troubleshoot. I > think they know they had bad hardware out there and do not want to honor > warranties. I've heard rumors of bad batches of 1072's. > > > > Anyone else encounter this? > > > > [image: logo] > <https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-ed4acb70d3fb71b72aeea4066f6012bfa1e2e66e> > > <https://www.facebook.com/ruralhighspeed> > <https://www.instagram.com/wave.direct/> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wavedirect-telecommunication/> > <https://twitter.com/wavedirect1> > <https://www.youtube.com/user/WaveDirect> > > *STEVEN KENNEY * > *DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY & CONTINUITY * > > *A: 158 Erie St. N | Leamington ON E: [email protected] > <[email protected]> | P: 519-737-9283 W: www.wavedirect.net > <https://imsva91-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wavedirect.net&umid=D7E8655E-B6F3-F705-88EA-2A08303811DF&auth=079c058f437b7c6303d36c6513e5e8848d0c5ac4-3ca9c8d0ac0d6566b9daf27839af27539533a38d>* > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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