FarSync WAN T-Series Install Package HowTo

At this point you should have installed the MikroTik router and enabled the software with an appropriate key.  This HowTo explains what you need to do in order to add the FarSync WAN and Frame Relay packages to the router. 


Installing the Packages

The MikroTik router is updated with new packages, or new versions of the core system or packages, by FTP.  The mechanism is quite simple and very neat.  Just FTP some special package files (with an extension .npk) to the router and then reboot.  As the router shuts down, it will detect the new packages and install them.  When the router has finished booting, your router has been updated.

To use the FarSync cards, the FarSync package is required.  Also, if you want to run Frame Relay on the FarSync cards, then you also need the Frame Relay package.  This HowTo shows you how to configure a Frame Relay link, so you will need both packages.  The router has a FarSync T2P installed as the first card, and a FarSync T4P as the second.

You must download the FarSync and Frame Relay packages from the same Web page as the MikroTik core router package was downloaded from, i.e. the packages must be for the same release as the core system.  On the MikroTik Web site you will find a list of additional packages available for the router.  Download and unzip the files into a directory on a machine other than the router.  You should end up with two .npk files.  Now start an FTP client and Send the files in binary mode to the Mikrotik router.

Now re-boot the MikroTik router with the shutdown command  (type "system shutdown" or system and then shutdown).  As the router closes down, it finds the new packages and installs them.  


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Last updated: 21 Jan 2002