I was in the process of swapping a 433ah for a 450g and am experiencing some of the same trouble. I copied the config from the 433 to the 450g and it doesn't work. The port I have as ether1 showed up red in winbox.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Scott Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 05:25:33PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote: >> I posted this on the MT forum but I wanted to throw it out here too. Thanks. >> >> First I exported in imported the RB-750's config into the RB-750G but >> the RB-750G didn't seem to be getting a DHCP address from the Motorola >> Surfboard cable modem on it's Ether1-Gateway port. I had a link light >> but no connectivity, the RB-750G wouldn't even respond to a ping from >> the internet. Then I tried the RB-750G with the default config (after >> \system reset) and it still wouldn't work. Again I had a link light >> but no connectivity in or out. Next I disabled the RB-750G's DHCP >> client on the Ether1-Gateway port and manually configured it for the >> public IP address that the Surfboard has been giving out via DCHP >> for years. It's a dynamic IP address but it never changes even after >> widespread system wide outages experienced by the cable company. That >> seems to be our address. Anyway, Even with the IP address manually >> configured I still couldn't get any connectivity. >> > > When I migrated a config from a 750G to a 450G, I found that the > names of the ethernet ports were applied to the wrong physical port. > > When I plugged a cable into physical port 1 on the 450G, the RouterOS > showed a link on the interface named 4_tower_lan. 4_tower_lan was > physical port 4 on the 750G. I had to figure out which port showed > a link with a cable plugged in and rename the interfaces so that > the configuration of IP address and DHCP clients would be on the > correct physical ports. > > -- > Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin > [email protected] > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
