Is there a reason the web interface can’t tolerate a /32 WAN IP? I have problems with this if I inadvertently change a different setting, and forget it has translated this to /8 or something. /32 IP’s are quite popular now with various providers - can we get this supported?
There are some other configurations that the web interface does not support, that I’ll raise after the above one..
Also, should I be registering my Mikrotik hardware devices with my online account, or is this only for the x86 edition?
A /32 address is a single address, it has no way to get a next hop and no broadcast IP. The way routing works, no it cannot be supported in IPv4. You can get around it with something like PPPoE, but that is about it, and that only works because it uses the interface as it’s next hop and just forwards the packets over the virtual interface. A /30 is really the minimum you need in most cases for routing to work properly.
Look up IP addressing and Subneting to understand the reasons given above.
I think is a term confusion. All IPs are /32, it means that ip ip is just ONE ip, but the network around must be at lest /30 for getting 4 IP, 1 for network address, one for the gateway, one for you and one for the broadcast.
The example above is: my ip is 1.1.1.1 because the /32 means that (I think so)
Point-to-point addressing works fine in RouterOS. The main problem is finding out, that it’s actually supported, because peer address in parameter called “network” is not intuitive at all. I seriously doubt that anyone knew how to do that without looking in manual. But who even thinks about looking into manual for something as simple as adding an address should be.
Yes exactly. I couldn’t find this in any manual, but figured out through pure guesswork. In fact, I think every WAN interface I’ve configured with my Mikrotik’s have been /32’s.
To me the (other) problem is that the web interface does not allow it. It does not list /32 as a possibility, but instead it becomes /8. You change some other setting, and it wipes /8 onto your config - chaos
I am using this configuration, and an increasing number of ISP’s here in Australia are using it - I believe it is common in the US as well. In fact my cloud provider uses /32 addresses as well.
So, Mikrotik officials: thoughts on supporting /32 addresses - I can’t see any downside, and it would have plenty of upside for me on the web interface!
