Hey all!
Hoping someone can give me some assistance with my Mikrotik SXTsq Lite5. I've successfully flashed it with ARDEN and can access the initial configuration page on 192.168.1.1 (where you setup a password and your callsign). After entering my details, the node reboots, tells me a 10.x IP and then I'm never able to access it again under that IP.
When I run a packet capture, I see it's doing a DHCP request out the Ethernet port, and when I connect it to a network with a DHCP server, I see it successfully negotiates an IP, but I can't ping or log into it. The node is alive though, since it successfully negotiates ARP.
What I think is happening, is the initial configuration is setting the Ethernet port as a WAN port and then restricting access because it considers the port 'unsafe.' Unfortunately this device only has a single Ethernet port, and it doesn't seem to broadcast a WiFi SSID in this initial configuration so I'm never able to access it.
Is there a way to tell the initial configuration that the Ethernet port should be considered part of the 'LAN'?
73,
Hoping someone can give me some assistance with my Mikrotik SXTsq Lite5. I've successfully flashed it with ARDEN and can access the initial configuration page on 192.168.1.1 (where you setup a password and your callsign). After entering my details, the node reboots, tells me a 10.x IP and then I'm never able to access it again under that IP.
When I run a packet capture, I see it's doing a DHCP request out the Ethernet port, and when I connect it to a network with a DHCP server, I see it successfully negotiates an IP, but I can't ping or log into it. The node is alive though, since it successfully negotiates ARP.
What I think is happening, is the initial configuration is setting the Ethernet port as a WAN port and then restricting access because it considers the port 'unsafe.' Unfortunately this device only has a single Ethernet port, and it doesn't seem to broadcast a WiFi SSID in this initial configuration so I'm never able to access it.
Is there a way to tell the initial configuration that the Ethernet port should be considered part of the 'LAN'?
73,
I've just flashed two SXTsq Lite5 this morning, without any problems.
After you've entered your callsign and password, you must change back your ethernet connection from the fixed IP address to "automatic" (DHCP). Once the AREDN software is completely started, you shold be able to access it.
Assuming you use a windows PC, you can check the ip of the antenna using ipconfig in the command window. And sometimes it helps to either run ipconfig /release and ipconfig /renew to refresh your computer's ip settings, or simply disconnect the LAN cable for a moment and plug it back in..
Hope this helps :-)
Best 73s,
Kurt HB9XCL
How are you trying to access the SXT ?
" I connect it to a network with a DHCP server,"
The SXT is a DHCP server. If you plug the SXT into a workstation,
it will give the workstation an IP address on the LAN of the SXT.
"it considers the port 'unsafe.' "
Is 'it' the SXT? or is 'it' your workstation? or ?
Or does your workstation think the SXT is 'unsafe'.
I am not familiar with anything thinking anything is 'unsafe'.
Please elaborate further.
I think "the initial configuration" of a single port AREDN device is
73, Chuck