

IPv6 Router Advertisements (RA) are used for SLAAC and in MikroTik it is. But it does seem like it would be useful. As of RouterOS v7.7 it still uses legacy iptables for packet filtering instead. I have to think that if routerOS is really just a linux OS that this would not be terribly difficult, but I don’t know enough about iptables or where/how routerOS stores this state to be able to make much progress on this myself…. “Hey, you, router! Launch this process here in the background, and if I don’t come back within the next and kill you, I want you to replace whatever I’ve done with the iptables rules with this file, which is a known-good-enough config”. Something like a shell command that says:

Most major network operating systems have something like this (Cisco IOS XR calls it “commit confirm” - that’s the one I’m most familiar with…)Įven if there was some way to do this with a script, it would still be really useful. Is there some way that you can muck about with iptables in a “temporary” way such that if you screw up(*) and do something stupid like lock yourself out of the router, you can fix it by just doing a reboot instead of a full-on factory reset?
