DHCP & Scopes

RouterOS General
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Good Day,

We presently have a windows server based system which takes care of our DNS & DHCP, we have different VLAN’s setup which our switches take care of, so different buildings of our campus are on different sets of IP Addresses, like 10.10.10.0/24, 10.10.20.0/24, 10.10.30.0/24 etc.

RIght now the DHCP scopes are setup on the windows server, is something like this possible on RouterOS? We are looking to change a few things to improve our campus network performance, and I am looking at this as an option.

I would also like to setup another caching DNS server, but I am not sure yet if this will help us.

Thanks!

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The scope is the network.

You can forward the dhcp or authoritatively answer the dhcp request but only one dhcp server should be on the same layer 2 network. You can set the DNS servers and check the box to answer requests which will allow you to use the mikrotik as a DNS caching server.

I highly recommend using the dhcp setup wizard for configuring the dhcp which will setup the networks, service, & pools for each network that your putting dhcp on. You will have to choose an interface then a subnet then the other settings for each network that the router will be doing dhcp on.