MikroTik RouterBOARD 600 Quick Setup Manual

RouterBOARD 600
Quick Setup Guide and Warranty Information

Assembling the Hardware

First use of the board:
● In most cases you do not need to use any additional boot devices, as you
can boot the RouterBOARD from the onboard NAND memory. You can also
install one or two CompactFlash modules or Microdrive hard drives, which
you can use as an alternative boot device (in J301 slot only) or additional
storage media (in any or both slots);
● Insert MiniPCI cards on the board itself, and on the daughterboard if you
have one;
● Install the board in a case, connect and secure the daughterboard and
connect antenna wires, if needed;
● Connect other peripherals and cables.

Powering

The board accepts powering from either the power jack or the LAN1 Ethernet
port:
● direct-input power jack J901 (5.5mm outside and 2mm inside diameter,
female, pin positive plug) accepts 10..56 V DC.
● LAN1 Ethernet port J701 accepts 38..56 V DC input (at the board; higher
voltage needed to compensate for power loss on long cables; 48V
suggested) from Power over Ethernet injectors. The board works with
IEEE802.3af compliant 48V power injectors.
The maximum output of the power supply to the extension cards is normally at about 25W (7.5A at 3.3V), however with
appropriate cooling, the onboard power supply is capable to provide higher power output to the extension cards.

Booting process

First, RouterBOOT loader is started. It displays some useful information on the onboard RS232C asynchronous serial port.
The serial port is set by default 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 User's manual. The loader may be configured to boot the system from the onboard NAND, and/or from
network. See the respective section of User's manual on how to configure booting sequence and other BIOS parameters.
DHCP or BOOTP (configurable in loader) protocols allow the RouterBOARD 600 series board to get an initial IP address, and
provide the address of a TFTP server to download an ELF boot image from. It is especially useful for software installation.
See the User's manual for more information and protocol details. 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 – they must be on the same Ethernet switch).
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rev. A (30-Oct-2007)