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Script job killer – MikroTik RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/09

After reading [WayBackScript job killer – MikroTik RouterOS I put lines like these into a few of my frequently running scripts:

/system script environment get systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand
:global systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand

:local scriptsOfTypeCommandCount [$systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand];

:if ($scriptsOfTypeCommandCount > 4) do={
  $outputError value=("$scriptName; too many runnings commands ($scriptsOfTypeCommandCount); bailing out early");
  :return -1;
}

They in turn use this underlying function:

:local scriptName "Function.systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand.rsc"
/system script environment remove [ find where name="systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand" ];

:global systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand do={
  :local result [:len [/system script job find where type=command]];
#  :put "result=$result"
  :return $result;
}

## Example:
## /import scripts/Function.systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand.rsc
## :put [$systemScriptJobCountTypeIsCommand];

–jeroen

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On my research list: connecting Fritz!Box devices together into a virtual PBX

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/29

I’ve some Fritz!Box devices on various locations that each provide VoIP access and either ISDN or PSTN lines.

Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to join them together into a virtual PBX?

I’m not sure how it’s possible and what you need for it, so here are some links that should make my future research on this easier:

–jeroen

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Mikrotik – viewing when users logged in/out (on/off) when logging is high-volume

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/27

When logging on a Mikrotik is high-volume, then you need to have either:

  • separate logging actions (they end up in logging buffers each having the same name as the action) and logging rules for specific information that you want to retain
  • log to file in stead of memory

Since my devices have plenty memory, I made a separate accountAction with a rule sending the topic account to accountAction which I then can query like either of these:

/log print detail where message~"logged"

/log print detail where message~"logged" && buffer=accountAction

Here is the /system logging export condensed result:

/system logging action add name=accountAction target=memory
/system logging add action=accountAction topics=account

–jeroen

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Mikrotik functions -> hopefully I can translate this to the new syntax

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/21

Reminder to self as it would be useful to have these Mikrotik functions in the new function syntax:

–jeroen

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New steps for Slack on Twitter: “@thorduri 😣 You can always disable emoji conversion in Preferences > Emoji > Convert my typed emoticons to emoji. 👍”

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/18

After: @thorduri You can always disable emoji conversion in Preferences > Emoji > Convert my typed emoticons to emoji. [WayBack]

We live in the form-over-function era [WayBack], so of course this setting is not reachable by URL, only reachable by using these steps:

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Blacklist Filters on MikroTik RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/08

Some blacklist filters you can use on Mikrotik RouterOS devices:

You might consider to use these instead of action=drop:

–jeroen

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some notes on L2TP IPSEC on Mikrotik

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/01

For debugging purposes:

/log print where buffer=memory && (message~"l2tp" || message ~"L2TP"))

This will result in an answer like this:

13:43:59 l2tp,info first L2TP UDP packet received from 93.184.216.34
13:43:59 l2tp,ppp,info,account l2tp-jeroenp logged in, 192.168.73.239
13:43:59 l2tp,ppp,info <l2tp-l2tp-jeroenp>: authenticated
13:43:59 l2tp,ppp,info <l2tp-l2tp-jeroenp>: connecteda

Some links for when you cannot get connections to work:

Before digging deeper, check the output of settings like these:

/system logging add topics=ipsec

/ip ipsec policy group print
/ip ipsec peer print
/ip ipsec remote-peers print
/ip ipsec proposal print
/ip ipsec installed-sa print

It will give you answers like these (note that a Mac OS X 10.9.5 won’t connect with camelia encryption algorithms and not do better hashing than sha1):

> /ip ipsec policy group print
Flags: * - default
# NAME
0 * default
1 pfs-modp1024


> /ip ipsec peer print
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic
0 address=0.0.0.0/0 local-address=:: passive=no port=500 auth-method=pre-shared-key secret="someLoooooooongPasssssword" generate-policy=port-override policy-template-group=default exchange-mode=main-l2tp send-initial-contact=yes nat-traversal=yes
hash-algorithm=sha1 enc-algorithm=aes-256,aes-192,aes-128,3des dh-group=modp1024 lifetime=1d dpd-interval=2m dpd-maximum-failures=5


> /ip ipsec remote-peers print
0 local-address=37.153.243.243 port=4500 remote-address=93.184.216.34 port=15390 state=established side=responder established=22m16s

> /ip ipsec proposal print
Flags: X - disabled, * - default
0 * name="default" auth-algorithms=sha1 enc-algorithms=aes-128-cbc lifetime=30m pfs-group=modp1024

> /ip ipsec installed-sa print
Flags: A - AH, E - ESP
0 E spi=0x965F243 src-address=93.184.216.34:15390 dst-address=37.153.243.243:4500 state=mature auth-algorithm=sha1 enc-algorithm=aes-cbc auth-key="7f15b06179d0365cd8b7d8f046201703b2ba93f1" enc-key="ffc56f51397f60002d4bc3d7b95f14ede7eaa542" addtime=oct/17/2016 13:43:58
expires-in=36m34s add-lifetime=48m/1h current-bytes=24928 replay=128

1 E spi=0xE0A95C3 src-address=37.153.243.243:4500 dst-address=93.184.216.34:15390 state=mature auth-algorithm=sha1 enc-algorithm=aes-cbc auth-key="bd936b323131dea53d26791829640471c03154bc" enc-key="cb1a3e3b21d033c39390aa48b7efe64e835fc404" addtime=oct/17/2016 13:43:58
expires-in=36m34s add-lifetime=48m/1h current-bytes=3120 replay=128

In order to switch away from default as Policy Template Group, you will have to:

  1. add a new IPSec group (in /ip ipsec policy group)
  2. add a new IPSec proposal (in /ip ipsec proposal) with the same PFS group name as the policy group.
  3. add a new IPSec policy (in /ip ipsec policy group) with (under General) the same group name as the policy group. *and* (under Action) the same proposal name as the proposal.

Some links on hardening IPSEC with DH algorigthm:

Miscellaneous links:

–jeroen

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Mikrotik date and time calculations

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/29

Some ideas for date and time calculation:

It should get better (and verifyable) implementations in stead of these Julian (not Gregorian!) date conversions:

Notes:

–jeroen

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exporting firewall config – MikroTik RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/28

Example:

/ip firewall filter export file=ip-firewall-filter.rsc

This exports the Filters parts of the IP Firewall into a file named ip-firewall-filter.rsc in the user-space root of the Mikrotik router file system that you can access through the Files menu entry in WinBox or by external access through FTP or SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).

–jeroen

via: exporting firewall config – MikroTik RouterOS

 

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Manual:CRS examples – MikroTik Wiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/22

The Cloud Router Switches support three types of mirroring. Port based mirroring can be applied to any of switch-chip ports, VLAN based mirroring works for all specified VLANs regardless switch-chip ports and MAC based mirroring copies traffic sent or received from specific device reachable from the port configured in Unicast Forwarding Database.

Port Based Mirroring

The first configuration sets ether5 port as a mirror0 analyzer port for both ingress and egress mirroring, mirrored traffic will be sent to this port. Port based ingress and egress mirroring is enabled from ether6 port.

/interface ethernet switch
set ingress-mirror0=ether5 egress-mirror0=ether5

/interface ethernet switch port
set ether6 ingress-mirror-to=mirror0 egress-mirror-to=mirror0

Source: Manual:CRS examples – MikroTik Wiki [WayBack]

This allows you to torch traffic from a specific port despite that port being grouped to a master-port.

Via: Torch not working with CRS226-24G-2S+ – MikroTik RouterOS [WayBack]

But, when using Bridge, all ports share a single 1 gbps link to the CPU, so your layer 2 performance will suffer horribly.

If you need to see all the traffic from a single port when using Master/slave port configuration, use port mirroring.

–jeroen

 

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