You will need to allow netinstall through your firewall to all IP addresses (public scope for the Windows Firewall).Ĭlick Net booting and enter a different IP address, which will be assigned to the router during the boot process.Ĭonnect your router port 1 directly to your computer’s ethernet port. You will need to run as an elevated user. Then Properties -> Internet Protocol Version 4 -> Properties -> Use the following IP address. In Windows 10, the adapter settings are in Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Centre I used 10.0.0.50/24, but any IP separate from your main network is OK. You need to set a static IP address on your computer for a netinstall. If, by chance, you can still connect to your router, you can find the exact model in System -> Routerboard -> Model. If you are unsure of your router’s specific model, try the netinstall process and it should identify your device. I used the MMIPS Main Package for my rev 3 hEX device (RB750Gr3). You may be offline while you do the netinstall procedure, so download netinstall and correct packages for your router before hand. Seems netinstall and the Hyper-V virtual switch don’t play nice together.

The router never deteted the netinstall program and never connected to the bootp server while Hyper-V was running. I had Hyper-V installed (for phone development) and needed to remove it first. I needed to plug my ethernet into another switch to set the IP first. My router was power cycling every 30 seconds, so Windows didn’t see the ethernet port up for long enough for me to set an IP address. There were two things which caused me problems:

I tried various ways of resetting the device. So no hope of sending it back to Duxtel to get a replacement (and I’m not sure if my pride would cope with that kind of RMA anyway). In an effort to remove packages it won’t ever need (eg: wireless and hotspot) and free up space, I aggressively removed pretty much all packages and tried to install everything from scratch.Īpparently, removing the base routeros-mmips package isn’t a wise move. There was a recent product update which improved the CPU and RAM by 4x compared to previous revision.īut the device still only has 16MB of flash memory (a micro SD card can be installed for more storage), with under 6MB free out-of-the-box. I was preparing a new Mikrotik hEX router for church.

Update mikrotik router