
There are 2 ways to obtain a license - using WinBox or RouterOS command line interface: As a result, a CHR ID number will be assigned to your account on the account server and 60-day trial created for that ID. To do that you have to enter your username and password and the desired license level you want to acquire. Initial upgrade from the free tier to anything higher than that incurs CHR instance registration on the account server. Once you have a trial license, all the work with the license is done on the account server - here it is possible to upgrade license to a higher tier unless it is p-unlimited already. From there, it is possible to upgrade the license to a higher tier. You can even break it down and keep typing ? to see what parameters the tool/command takes.After the initial setup, a CHR instance will have a free license assigned. ip/address add address 172.16.52.20 /30 interface= ether2īeyond this it is fairly simple as you can just go to / and type ? and for any area such as /tool just type ? and you can see a list of possible commands. Replace ether2 with the interface # and /30 with your subnet mask. The command below will print the interface name along with the MAC address. This is essential so you don't mess up your routing especially if you have more than one NIC. You should set the new password first, before putting the router online, because the default is blank and you should have a secure password. You can also get a free 60-day trial which will remove the speed limit for that time.

HP D元60e) will just not boot it.Īlso be warned that not having the right license will mean a speed limitation of just 1mbit on CHR. One particular notorious problem vendor is HP's server line (eg. This is a nice way of letting you know that your BIOS sucks/is not compatible with what I believe is syslinux that is installed as the boot loader. One note as well if you are trying to do a baremetal install you may get an error "Error Loading Operating System" or the normal "No OS drive detected" from your computer/server's BIOS. Many people may not be aware that you can turn commodity hardware into a Mikrotik OS and there are various options which is "CHR" (Cloud Hosted Router) which is a VM image meant for Virtualization only (seriously, I've tried to dd the image to a physical server and it just crashed as it does not contain any drivers for physical).
