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1. or for attaching a modem or any other RS232 serial device TxD pin 3 of this port has 5V DC power when idle RTS and DTR signals are not connected Note that the device does not fully implement the hardware RTS CTS flow control so it is suggested to try to disable hardware flow control in the terminal emulation program in case the serial console does not work as expected and if it does not help make a new cable using the pinout given in the User s manual LEDs Power LED Power LED is on when the board is powered User LED User LED may be programmed at user s option It is lit by default when the board starts up then it is turned off when the bootloader runs kernel Status LEDs Five LEDs LD 501 505 may be used to show bootup activity wireless signals and user programmed values User s Guide Assembling the Hardware First to use the board e Insert MiniPCI cards and connect antenna wires if needed e Install the board in a case e Connect other peripherals and cables Powering Power options e J801 power jack 10 28V DC supports overvoltage protection e Power over Ethernet PoE on the J602 LAN1 Ethernet port 10 28V DC 18 28 V suggested non standard PoE powering support The board has a direct input power jack J801 5 5mm outside and 2mm inside diameter female pin positive plug and can as well be powered with PoE All power inputs are always active but only one should be used at the same time2. EVICO cc civecetacinccsamenteeetatateiateenstnaandastansetnseinantenwenebewanataasteusaanes E ts da ds Wg So AA ee E A o ee a eee PU de Uan Ue a o o A e O o PS Ei A oa POE o OE O E DEO Serial POTE PI A o o UE o e o PUE IIA A a AAA e A OE E II E lateness eeenatuae Uat a as eu ceca anand nue ceo A A PI EE asec ieee snbeeeanwenes SS A ace E ides adda E A A E mene A A e e rence ai oo A ASS the OA ria dopo me la PE E E T E EE E REO es O o ea a a a h eaaa iaa En Gnboard NAND Storie Bid els iran Me T OM MONO E earan AE T E E REN a ale DS I P E E EE EEE ee N E A T S EAEE RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual System Board View RB411 Site poz a E sveo RET gr E C802 C825 ll i h A A D802 0801 z ARR Bolas F 1 ee feh coom osm zosm cocm osm ra Top view Bottom view System Board Layout CPU O LED1 LED2 LED3 LED4 LEDS LAN 1 100BaseTx with PoE in Onboard RAM Onboard Flash NAND Serial port User LED Speaker RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual Specifications AA ro A era 2 bases eros AR7130 BOOM CPU Ethernet Oe 10 100 Mb s Fast Etnemet ports supporting AMO MDI Minipcrsiot one maea Type mime sot Power obti ns Power over Ethernet 12 28V DC except power over datalines P Power jack 9 28V DC Dimensions macs waoe O see Hardware Guide Memory and Storage Devices Onboard Memory The board is equipped with 32 MB DDR onboard memory On
3. RouterBOARD 411 User s Manual Rev A 31 Jan 2008 Hii ene ws lt M a N w h y Y aie A CN x cet Veit Y Copyright Copyright 2003 2008 MikroTikls SIA This manual contains information protected by copyright law No part of it may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without prior written permission from the copyright holder Trademarks RouterBOARD RouterOS RouterBOOT and MikroTik are trademarks of MikroTikls SIA All trademarks and registered trademarks appearing in this manual are the property of their respective holders Limited Warranty Hardware MikroTikls SIA warrants all RouterBOARD 411 series equipment for the term of one year from the shipping date to be free of defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service All parts will be repaired or replaced with similar or functionally equivalent parts by MikroTikls SIA during the warranty term except in case the returned parts have mechanical electrical or other accidental or intended damages caused by improper use or due to wind rain fire or other acts of nature Parts or systems must be shipped pre paid to our facility in Riga Latvia All items must have a Return Material Authorization RMA which you can get by contacting us via email telephone or fax RMA must be printed signed and enclosed with the shipment also the RMA number must be written on the package itself Parts sent without following the proper procedure will be tre
4. RouterBOARD 411 is equipped with a reliable 14W onboard power supply with overvoltage protection 9 28 V DC input voltages are accepted but when powered over long cables it is suggested to use at least 18V The system is tested with 24V solar wind RV systems with 27 6 charge voltage Overvoltage protection starts from about 28V up to 100V so the board will not be damaged if connected to a 48V or 60V power line RouterBOARD 411 series boards are compatible with non standard passive Power over Ethernet injectors except power over datalines and accept powering over up to 100m 330 ft long Ethernet cable connected to the Ethernet port J602 The board does not work with IEEE802 3af compliant 48V power injectors The maximum output of the power supply to the extension cards is normally at about 3 3A Booting options First RouterBOOT loader is started It displays some useful information on the onboard RS232C asynchronous serial port which is set to 115200bit s 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity by default The loader may be configured to boot the system from the onboard NAND module or from Ethernet network See the 5 RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual respective section of this manual for how to configure booting sequence and other boot loader parameters Onboard NAND Storage Device The RouterBOARD may be started from the onboard NAND storage chip As there is no partition table on the device the boot loader assumes the first 4M
5. al console via the onboard serial port at the boot time The loader Supports booting from the onboard NAND device and from a network server see the respective section for details on this protocol Boot Loader Configuration Loader parameters may be configured through the onboard RS232C DB9 asynchronous serial interface To connect to it use a standard null modem cable By default the port is set to 115200bit s 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity Note that the device does not fully implement the hardware RTS CTS flow control so it is suggested to try to disable hardware flow control in the terminal emulation program in case the serial console does not work as expected and if it does not help make a new cable using the pinout given in the Appendix To enter the loader configuration screen press any key or only Delete key or Backspace key see the note for the respective configurable option depending on the actual configuration just after the loader is asking for it RouterBOOT booter 2 12 RouterBoard 411 CPU frequency 300 MHz Memory size 32 MB Press any key within 2 seconds to enter setup RouterBOOT 2 12 What do you want to configure boot delay boot key serial console boot device cpu mode reset configuration format nand upgrade firmware board info boot protocol do memory testing exit setup choice Fy ee Ge RaQ iD E SE Os you RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual To select a men
6. ated as those not to be repaired or replaced due to the above mentioned conditions Items proved to be free of defects in our lab will be returned to the customer at the customer s expense Those that do meet the warranty repair requirements will be repaired or replaced and returned to the customer s location at our expense extending the warranty term for the time the items are being shipped to and from our facility and replaced or repaired Manual This manual is provided as is without a warranty of any kind expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranty of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose The manufacturer has made every effort to ensure the accuracy of the contents of this manual however it is possible that it may contain technical inaccuracies typographical or other errors No liability is assumed for any inaccuracy found in this publication nor for direct or indirect incidental consequential or other damages that may result from such an inaccuracy including but not limited to loss of data or profits Please report any inaccuracies found to docs mikrotik com RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual Table of Contents AR AE OCC Er ni CU eae en sauces o O ER A a MA AU Dn qe 1 80 2 9 OPC ONO OOO O O o o SS A BRE rta ad cata PP o UC O cc vaat erential ese E E E EE renteleass Saa ES o PO AA E A e eo o o oo O RT Memory and Storage DEVICES scrape tio SODA METE os Onboard NAND Storage D
7. board NAND Storage Device The boards are equipped with one 64MB NAND nonvolatile memory chip Extension Slots MiniPCI Slots The board has one MiniPCI Type IIIA slot with 3 3V only power signaling It also accepts MiniPCI Type IIIB standard cards The board has been tested to operate with high power cards if ambient temperature and adequate cooling is ensured NOTE that RB411 currently does not support Senao 8602 cards Atheros AR5211 or older chipset and Prism chipset based cards Supplied power for the extension cards excluding CPU and onboard Ethernet ports 3 3V 3 3A max Input Output Ports LAN1 Port with PoE This Fast Ethernet port is recognized as the first LAN interface It is compatible with passive non standard Power over Ethernet The board accepts voltage input from 12 to 28 V DC It is suggested to use higher voltages for power over long cables because of better efficiency less power is lost in the cable itself and power supply is more efficient See Connector Index for pinout of the standard cable required for PoE All cables made to EIA TIA 568A B cable specifications will work correctly with PoE Note that this port supports automatic cross straight cable A RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual correction Auto MDI X so you can use either straight or cross over cable for connecting to other devices DB9 Serial Port The RS232C standard male DB9 asynchronous serial port may be used for initial configuration
8. ding is supported also from MikroTik RouterOS The procedure is described in the MikroTik RouterOS manual Appendix Serial Null modem Console Cable with Loopback DBOf Function DBOf DB25f 1 4 6 CD DTR DSR 1 4 gt 6 6 8 4 20 2 RxD 3 2 3 TxD 2 5 GND 5 7 7 8 RTS CTS 7 8 4 5 RouterBOARD 411 Series User s Manual Connector Index Joco bate Came Dee alr rece Data SSCS sfr Grense Da SSS no oun OOS S S loen SSS foen OS opos power oponer 7 po poner Button Index S301 Software reset button Ethernet Cables RJ45 Color Function RJ45 pin for Straight cable RJ45 pin for Crossover cable Pin MDI EIA TIA568A MDI X EIA TIA568B 1 Green TX Data 1 3 2 Green White TX Data 2 6 3 Orange RX Data 3 1 4 Blue 4 4 5 Blue White 5 5 6 Orange White RX Data 6 2 7 Brown F 7 7 8 Brown White 8 8 13 60 12 55 D3 10 90 x2 7 60 6 40 y 200 ERE O a er o S 1 60 18 13 33 23 36 10 66 99 105 105 Scale 1 2 1 Unspecified R 2 Unspecified tolerances exept p 3 DIN7168 FINE Description Extemal 112 ee Nominal Internal 1712 RB411 dimensions IT12 Others T12 2 Z 3 Hole coordinates with 6 01 unspecified tolerances ZMIER aia code 30 120 03 s all coordinative dim s RBA4 dim snee O 1000 0 6 countersunks 1000 1200 ited 25008
9. iB form a YAFFS filesystem and executes the file called kernel stored in the root directory on that partition Booting from network Network boot works similarly to PXE or EtherBoot protocol and allows you to boot a RouterBOARD 411 series computer from an executable image stored on a TFTP server It uses BOOTP or DHCP configurable in boot loader protocol to get a valid IP address and TFTP protocol to download an executable ELF kernel image combined with the initial RAM disk inserted as an ELF section to boot from the TFTP server s IP address and the image name must be sent by the BOOTP DHCP server To boot the RouterBOARD computer from Ethernet network you need the following e An ELF kernel image for the loader to boot from you can embed the kernel parameters and initrd image as ELF sections called kernparm and initrd respectively e A TFTP server which to download the image from e A BOOTP DHCP server may be installed on the same machine as the TFTP server to give an IP address TFTP server address and boot image name See the RouterBOOT section on how to configure loader to boot from network Note that you must connect the RouterBOARD you want to boot and the BOOTP DHCP and TFTP servers to the same broadcast domain i e there must not be any routers between them RouterBOOT The RouterBOOT firmware also referred as boot loader here provides minimal functionality to boot an Operating System It supports seri
10. u point press the indicated key Pressing Enter selects the option marked with Configurable Options boot delay how much time to wait for a key stroke while booting 1 9 seconds 2 second by default boot key which key will cause the loader to enter configuration mode during boot delay any key lt Delete gt key only any key by default Note that in some serial terminal programs it is impossible to use the Delete key to enter the setup in this case it might be possible to do this with the Backspace key serial console to configure initial serial console bitrate 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 38400 57600 115200 115200 bps by default boot device initial boot device boot over Ethernet boot from NAND boot Ethernet once then NAND boot from NAND by default You can also select boot chosen device option to boot from the device selected immediately without saving the setting cpu mode whether to enter CPU suspend mode on WAIT instruction power save regular power save by default Most OSs use WAIT instruction during CPU idle cycle When CPU is in suspend mode it consumes less power but in low temperature conditions below 0 C it is recommended to choose regular mode so that overall system temperature would be higher reset configuration whether to reset all the boot loader settings to their respective default values yes no no by default format nand perform a low level NAND format D
11. uring this operation all previously marked bad sectors are retested to find out if they are faulty indeed upgrade firmware receive a new boot loader image using XModem protocol over serial line or using DHCP BOOTP and TFTP protocols through the Ethernet network upgrade firmware over ethernet upgrade firmware over serial port board info prints the serial number boot loader version CPU frequency memory size and MAC addresses of the onboard Ethernet ports boot protocol network booting protocol bootp protocol dhcp protocol bootp protocol by default do memory testing performs a full memory test Boot Loader Upgrading The boot loader is needed to initialize all the hardware and boot the system up Newer loader versions might have support for more hardware so it s generally a good idea to upgrade the loader once a newer version is available You can upgrade the loader through the onboard serial port using XModem protocol programs available for all major OSs For example you can use HyperTerminal for Windows or Minicom for Linux to upload the boot loader Alternatively if you have a DHCP BOOTP and TFTP servers available you can specify the loader image as a boot image and choose the bios upgrade over ethernet option in the boot loader configuration menu The loader will get the image from the TFTP server and upgrade itself The most current loader image is available for download on www routerboard com The boot loader upgra
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