From 44663f0c38331860e9b68294b90228164889b997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Hesse <mail@eworm.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:02:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] log-forward: use comparison for ids

This was introduced with RouterOS 7.22beta1.
---
 log-forward.rsc | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/log-forward.rsc b/log-forward.rsc
index 26a23761..29e63ed8 100644
--- a/log-forward.rsc
+++ b/log-forward.rsc
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
   :global LogForwardRateLimit;
 
   :global EitherOr;
-  :global HexToNum;
   :global IfThenElse;
   :global LogForwardFilterLogForwarding;
   :global LogPrint;
@@ -38,6 +37,9 @@
     :error false;
   }
 
+  # LogForwardLast is not initialized, by intention: we want
+  # to catch *0 on first invocation!
+
   :if ([ :typeof $LogForwardRateLimit ] = "nothing") do={
     :set LogForwardRateLimit 0;
   }
@@ -51,7 +53,6 @@
 
   :local Count 0;
   :local Duplicates false;
-  :local Last [ $IfThenElse ([ :len $LogForwardLast ] > 0) [ $HexToNum $LogForwardLast ] -1 ];
   :local Messages "";
   :local Warning false;
   :local MessageVal;
@@ -63,14 +64,13 @@
   :set LogForwardIncludeMessage [ $EitherOr $LogForwardIncludeMessage [] ];
 
   :local LogForwardFilterLogForwardingCached [ $EitherOr [ $LogForwardFilterLogForwarding ] ("\$^") ];
-  :foreach Message in=[ /log/find where (!(message="") and \
-      !(message~$LogForwardFilterLogForwardingCached) and \
-      !(topics~$LogForwardFilter) and !(message~$LogForwardFilterMessage)) or \
-      topics~$LogForwardInclude or message~$LogForwardIncludeMessage ] do={
+  :foreach Message in=[ /log/find where .id>$LogForwardLast and \
+      ((!(message="") and !(message~$LogForwardFilterLogForwardingCached) and \
+        !(topics~$LogForwardFilter) and !(message~$LogForwardFilterMessage)) or \
+       topics~$LogForwardInclude or message~$LogForwardIncludeMessage) ] do={
     :set MessageVal [ /log/get $Message ];
     :local Bullet "information";
 
-    :if ($Last < [ $HexToNum ($MessageVal->".id") ]) do={
       :local DupCount ($MessageDups->($MessageVal->"message"));
       :if ($MessageVal->"topics" ~ "(warning)") do={
         :set Warning true;
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@
       }
       :set ($MessageDups->($MessageVal->"message")) ($DupCount + 1);
       :set Count ($Count + 1);
-    }
   }
 
   :if ($Count > 0) do={