April 2015 - Public - talk.mikrotik.com.au

Traffic prioritisation
by Ben Williams 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hey, I've got an RB951G-2HnD (running 6.27) on my home network, and I want to do some traffic prioritisation, because my ADSL sync maxes out at 5.5mbps. I want to: - make everything that comes from the Internet to my AppleTV high priority (Netflix :) ) - make everything to phones medium priority - make everything to my PC - which is mostly used for downloading Linux distros - low priority Without limiting the bandwidth of any of them; i.e. if nothing is going to the AppleTV, the full bandwidth should be available to my PC. If the AppleTV is wanting 3mbps, it should get all of that and the traffic to my PC should be limited to whatever's left. Is that possible? I'm not much of a networking guy, and I'm sure there are proper terms to explain what I'm wanting to achieve :) (Am I talking about QoS? Is it a queues thing?) - Ben --

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COA with Freeradius and Mikrotik
by Paul Julian 13 Apr '15

13 Apr '15

Hi guys, we are making some major changes to our authentication and billing and want to implement the COA feature so that any plan changes mid cycle for customers can be pushed to the LNS. I know that Mikrotik supports COA by using the inbound radius options and it should do what we want but what I can't seem to find enough information on is how the radius server actually triggers the update to be sent to the LNS, can anybody here shine any light on that for me at all ? We really want to get this going as I hate having to kick somebody off just for their queue to change, but just can't seem to connect the dots..... Thanks Paul

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Graphing IPv4 vs IPv6 traffic
by Purdon, Bob 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi All, I'm interested in comparing the volume of IPv4 and IPv6 traffic entering my home network - ideally by graphing it with Cacti. My edge router is an RB1100AHx2, with a PPPoE connection to my ISP and a couple of ports uplinking to gigabit switches. Unless I'm mistaken, there are no objects in the SNMP MIB for this. I looked at exporting flow data, but it seems flow export is only supported for IPv4. I guess at a pinch I could subtract the IPv4 volume (from the flow data) from the interface counters (IPv4+IPv6) and get something fairly close. Kind of messy though. I could probably whack in some firewall rules to simply count traffic and ssh to the router every 5 minutes to pull the numbers. Also kind of messy. Has anyone done this before? Any suggestions on a relatively simple (and reliable) way to do it that I've overlooked? Cheers.

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Optimal wireless settings
by Jason Hecker (Up & Running Tech) 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

The other day I was on a job an noticed I was able to transfer data from my laptop to a server over Wifi at around 15MB/s. This was to an Aerohive AP in the next room. Even in the same room I have trouble getting close to 10MB/s on with my Mikrotik AP's. In general, what settings on the Mikrotik devices in AP mode will achieve the greatest throughput? Can it vary depending on the model? --

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