Tag: pppoe

The following is a short but useful script which allows your system note to output recent info regarding router health and/or other details you might be interested in. Special thanks to Werner Venter for showing me the  ‘Cool Console‘ script which was modified and extended upon for this post.

IPv6 prefix delegation support comes to PPPoE in RouterOS version v5.10* so for those of you ready to jump onboard this release, here’s my attempt at a best-practice way to set it all up. IPv6 has been around in RouterOS for a while now, but the specific feature that was introduced is called “DHCPv6 Prefix … Continue reading IPv6 over PPPoE – RouterOS v5.10 →

A quick scriptlet I whipped up for a friend tonight to allow them to retrieve an IP addess from a specific PPPoE interface. Handy for updating DynDNS entries among other things. :local wanip [/ip address get [/ip address find where interface=pppoe-wan] address]; :set wanip [:pick $wanip 0 ([:len $wanip]-3) ]; #whatever you want to do … Continue reading Scriplet: Grabbing PPPoE IP Address →

Came across an interesting (yet to be verified) bug today. The info: RouterOS v4.10 running on x86 server Site runs both a hotspot and PPPoE server on the same interface. Users can decide to login via the captive portal (which most do) or for those who understand and wish to use a pppoe connection, they … Continue reading Bug spotting – PPPoE and Hotspot →