MikroTIk Newsletter No. 39

In this MikroTik newsletter issue:

New products-
*first RouterBOARD with fiber optic support - RB2011LS, from $89
*18dBi 5Ghz SEXTANTG-5HnD with GigE, $119
*price drop for OmniTikUPA-5HnD with PoE output- only $99!

*new way to easy configure your Router- Quickset

*MUM China 2012 - Beijing, October 17
*MUM Indonesia 2012 - Jakarta, October 20-21
*MUM Australia 2012 - Sydney, October 24

Download the newsletter here:
http://download2.mikrotik.com/news-39.pdf

Download MikroTik RouterOS v5.15

Mikrotik v5.15 is better then v 6.0 beta. What's new in 5.15 (2012-Apr-20 13:11):

*) ssh - added option "/ip ssh always-allow-password-login" which will allow
password based login for users using public key;
*) snmp - moved disk oids shown in console from "/system resoure" to "/store disk";
*) certificate manager - added PKCS#8 support for key import;
*) lte - support for modems which utilize sierra_net driver with product ID 0x68a3,
serial interface is no longer accesable for those modems;
*) quickset - added AP mode;
*) smb - fixed authorization problems, shares should now be browsable;
*) dhcp client - revert NTP settings on dhcp client disable;
*) dhcp server - use DNS server from DHCP client (broken in v5.13);
*) sstp - made it working on Pentium 4 again;
*) webfig - fixed uptime column in hotspot active users list (and other places as well) ;
*) webfig - hide design skin button if user does not have
sensitive & policy permissions;
*) webfig - do not allow to upload/download files
without write/read & ftp permisions;
*) webfig - fixed blank page when logout, undo, redo, hide-menu or safe-mode were hidden in skin,
*) winbox - show connection tracking max entries properly;
*) winbox - make interface name sorting more stable;
*) winbox - do not reset user password when changing it's properties;
*) rb1200 ether6,ether7,ether8 did not support big packets when linked at 10/100Mbps;

http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html

Download MikroTik RouterOS v6.0beta1

v6.0beta1 includes many changes, we suggest it for testing environment until you are confident that it works with necessary configuration.


Please, submit all reports to support@mikrotik.com (include suppout.rif file)

What's new in 6.0beta1 (2012-Apr-13 15:26):

*) updated drivers and kernel (to linux-2.6.38.2);
*) improved interface management (scales well for up to thousands of interfaces and more);
*) improved queue management (/queue simple and /queue tree) - easily handles tens
of thousands of queues;
*) improved overall router performance when simple queues are used -
at least double the performance of v5, even bigger improvements on multicore systems;
*) very small overhead for packets that miss simple queues,
but simple queues are present in the system;
*) pcq queue is NAT aware (just like "/queue simple" and "/ip traffic-flow";
*) in "/ip firewall mangle" can specify "new-priority=from-dscp-high-3-bits";
*) new default queue types: pcq-download-default and pcq-upload-default;
*) simple queues have separate priority setting for download/upload/total;
*) slave flag shows up for interfaces that are in bridge,bonding or switch group;
*) global-in, global-out, global-total parent in /queue tree is
replaced with global that is equivalent to global-total in v5;
*) simple queues happen in different place - at the very end of
postrouting and local-in chains;
*) simple queues target-addresses and interface parameters are joined into one
target parameter, now supports multiple interfaces match for one queue;
*) simple queues dst-address parameter is changed to dst and now supports
destination interface matching;
*) dns cache logs requests to topics "dns" and "packet";

Download MikroTik RouterOS v6.0beta1 at http://www.mikrotik.com/download.html