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RouterBOARD 500 Series

User's Manual

Rev. L (31-Jan-2006)

Copyright

Copyright © 2003-2006 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 500 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 treated  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 

[email protected]

.

Caution

To avoid damage of the system, use the correct DC input voltage range.

Summary of Contents for RouterBOARD 500r5 Series

Page 1: ...e 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 treated 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 war...

Page 2: ... Output Ports 6 LAN1 Port with PoE 6 LAN2 Port 6 LAN3 Port 6 DB9 Serial Port 7 LEDs 7 Power LED 7 User LED 7 MiniPCI LEDs 7 User s Guide 7 Assembling the Hardware 7 Powering 7 Booting options 8 Onboard NAND Storage Device 8 Internal Storage Device 8 Booting from network 8 Operating System Support 8 System Architecture 8 MikroTik RouterOS 9 Linux 9 RouterBOOT 9 Boot Loader Configuration 9 Configura...

Page 3: ...RouterBOARD 500 Series User s Manual System Board View RB532c RouterBOARD 532 complete build Top view Bottom view RB532p1 RouterBOARD 532 low power 12V edition Top view Bottom view 3 ...

Page 4: ...layout diagram shown Block Diagram 4 CPU Onboard RAM Power Supply 12 48V PoE 6 22 25 56V power jack 6 22 25 56V power header GPIO pins CF connector Onboard Flash NAND Serial port User LED 100BaseTX port 1 with PoE in PCI Ethernet Controller 100BaseTX port 2 2 MiniPCI slots Daughterboard connector Ethernet Controller 100BaseTX port 3 ...

Page 5: ...m x 14 0 cm 5 51 in x 5 51 in Weight 140 g 4 9 oz Temperature Operational 20 C to 70 C 4 F to 158 F Humidity Operational 70 relative humidity non condensing Power consumption 2 3W without extension cards Maximum 4 25 14W with base voltage 3 3V Daughterboard Options RouterBOARD 564 RouterBOARD 502 Ethernet Six VIA VT6105 10 100 Mbit s Fast Ethernet ports supporting Auto MDI X No Ethernet ports Mini...

Page 6: ...also be switched to 12V non standard PoE powering switching JP3 JP4 JP5 and JP6 to the 2 3 position CAUTION If JP3 and JP4 are switched to the 2 3 position and a standard 48V PoE injector is used the board will be irreparably broken and exchange will not be covered by the warranty The RouterBOARD 51 power injector may be used to power the board with up to 100m 330 ft long Ethernet cable See Connec...

Page 7: ...correctly See the following section on how to choose the correct setting Also the Jumper Index chapter of this manual describes all possible jumper positions 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 on top of it if you have one Connect other peripherals and cables You can also order a pre asse...

Page 8: ...he kernel source Internal Storage Device The RouterBOARD may be started from a CompactFlash module or a Microdrive hard drive At least two partitions must exist on the device first of which being the ELF image the board is to be booted from normally it is a Linux kernel appended with the kernparm ELF section that specifies the root partition name and optionally other kernel parameters of your choi...

Page 9: ...e the respective section for details on this protocol Supported OSs MikroTik RouterOS starting with version 2 9 GNU Linux 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 hardware RTS CTS flow control N...

Page 10: ...nt CPU frequency not the one set but the one actually active reset configuration whether to reset all the boot loader settings to their respective default values yes no no by default 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 p...

Page 11: ...ng system you can use the remote upgrading application available on www routerboard com This program boots the RouterBOARD from network and upgrades the loader Note that the upgrade may only take place within the same broadcast domain i e there must not be any routers between the Windows based machine and the upgradable RouterBOARD You can download from www routerboard com a special disk image thi...

Page 12: ...terBOARD 500 daughterboard connector proprietary pinout J6 RJ45 Fast Ethernet 100Base TX port 1 with IEEE802 3af PoE extension 1 Data TX 2 Data TX 3 Data RX 4 PoE power 5 PoE power 6 Data RX 7 PoE power 8 PoE power J7 IEEE1149 1 Boundary Scan Architecture JTAG connector 1 TRSTX JTAG Test Reset 2 TDI Test Data Input 3 TDO Test Data Output 4 E_TMS EJTAG Test Mode Select 5 TMS Test Mode Select 6 TCK ...

Page 13: ...I 2 LED 12 Green MiniPCI 2 LED J12 External Ethernet port header 1 Link LED 2 VCC 3 3V 3 Data TX 4 Data TX 5 Data RX 6 PoE power 7 PoE power 8 Data RX 9 PoE power 10 PoE power 11 Speed LED 12 VCC 3 3V J13 Power jack 6 22V or 25 56V DC positive contact is the central pin J14 Power header 6 22V or 25 56V DC positive is a square contact J15 MiniUPS daugterboard female header proprietary pinout J16 Ex...

Page 14: ...et standard operation Open Normal operation according to IEEE802 3af Power over Ethernet standard Closed Disable PoE control for passive PoE injectors Button Index S1 During the bootloader initialization sets the default 266MHz CPU frequency see the RouteBOOT section for more details User defined button GPIO1 RxD signal only useful when serial port is not used S2 Force immediate reboot Ethernet Ca...

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