Manual:RouterOS6 news

General

• Updated drivers and kernel (to linux-3.3.5);
• Configurable kernel options in /ip settings and /ipv6 settings menu (ip forward, rp filters etc)
• Arp timeout can be changed in /ip settings
• Neighbor discovery can be disabled by default on dynamic interfaces in /ip neighbor discovery settings menu
• Show last-logged-in in users list
• GRE supports all protocol encapsulation, not just ip and ipv6;
• DNS rotates servers only on failure
• Slave flag shows up for interfaces that are in bridge,bonding or switch group;
• DNS cache logs requests to topics "dns" and "packet";

PPP

• SSTP can now force AES encryption instead of default RC4
• added bridge-path-cost & bridge-port-priority to ppp profiles
• added last-logged-out to ppp secrets
• hotspot, ppp - support multiple address-lists
• Only 2 change mss mangle rules are created for all ppp interfaces;

Firewall

• New all-ether,all-wireless,all-vlan,all-ppp interface matchers
• Priority matcher
• New change-dscp options from-priority and from-priority-to-high-3-bits
• New Mangle Actions snif-tzsp,snif-pc

DHCP

• DHCP client now support custom options
• DHCP v4 client now have special-classless option for add-default-route parameter
• Possibility to add DHCP relay agent information option
• DHCPv6 DNS option support

IpSec

Significantly improved Road Warrior setup usage with Mode Configuration support.

Detailed configuration example can be found in the manual.

Full list of new features:

• Mode Conf support (unity split include, address pools, DNS)
• Ipsec peer can be set as passive - will not start ISAKMP SA negotiation
• Xauth support ( xauth PSK and Hybrid RSA)
• Policy templates - allow to generate policy only if src/dst address, protocol and proposal matches the template
• Peer groups
• Multiple peers with the same IP can be used.
• For peers with full IP address specified system will auto-start ISAKMP SA negotiation.
• generate-policy now can have port-strict value which will use port from peer's proposal

Certificates

• CA keys are no more cached, every CA operations now requires a valid CA passphrase. Use set-ca-passphrase for scep server to cache CA key in encrypted form;
• for certificates marked as trusted=yes, CRL will be automaticly updated once in hour from http sources;
• Ipsec and SSTP respects CRLs
• SCEP server/client support

Routing

• added OSPF use-dn parameter
• Changed BGP MED propagation logic, now discarded when sending route with non-empty AS_PATH to an external peer
• Connected routes become inactive when Interface goes down. It also means that dynamic routing protocols will stop distributing connected routes without Active flag.

Queues

• improved overall router performance when simple queues are used
• improved queue management (/queue simple and /queue tree) - easily handles tens of thousands of queues;
• /queue tree entries with parent=global are performed separately from /queue simple and before /queue simple;
• new default queue types: pcq-download-default and pcq-upload-default;
• simple queues have separate priority setting for download/upload/total;
• global-in, global-out, global-total parent in /queue tree is replaced with global that is equivalent to global-total in v5;
• simple queues happen in different place - at the very end of postrouting and local-in chains;
• simple queues target-addresses and interface parameters are joined into one target parameter, now supports multiple interfaces match for one queue;
• simple queues dst-address parameter is changed to dst and now supports destination interface matching;

Compact configuration export

Now by default configuration is exported in compact mode.

To make full config export verbose parameter should be used:

/export verbose file=myConfig

Tools

• FastPath support
• Renamed e-mail parameter tls to start-tls
• Fetch tool now has HTTPS support
• Added ipv6 header support for traffic generator
• Flash can be partitioned on routerboards and separate versions can be installed on each of them