HELP!: pppoe 738: the server did not assign an ip address

RouterOS General
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I dont know What happened.
I come to log on and i get this error:

TCP/IP CP reported error 738: The server did not assign an address.

i have done absolutely nothing to cause this. i didnt change anything.


my pppoe server gives out ip address from a pool:

[admin@grnzne-inet] ip pool> print
 # NAME                                                       RANGES                         
 0 dhcp-pool-1                                                192.168.0.100-192.168.0.200    
 1 webbox                                                     192.168.0.100-192.168.0.200    
 2 pppoe-pool                                                 192.168.1.100-192.168.1.250

and heres my nat:

[admin@grnzne-inet] ip firewall nat> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0 X ;;; masquerade hotspot network
     chain=srcnat src-address=192.168.0.0/24 action=masquerade 

 1   ;;; allow pppoe users inet
     chain=srcnat src-address=192.168.1.0/24 action=masquerade 

 2 X ;;; masquerade hotspot network
     chain=srcnat src-address=192.168.0.0/24 action=masquerade 

 3 X chain=dstnat in-interface=ether2 dst-address=0.0.0.80 protocol=tcp action=redirect 
     to-ports=8080 

 4 X ;;; ;;; intercept all DNS requests 
     chain=dstnat protocol=udp dst-port=53 action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.0.1 
     to-ports=0-65535 

 5   ;;; ;;; Transparent Proxy 
     chain=dstnat dst-address=192.168.0.1 protocol=tcp dst-port=80 action=redirect 
     to-ports=3128 
[admin@grnzne-inet] ip firewall nat>

HELP!

2

anybody?
i am deseperate cause NO ONE can login.

even pptp wont assign an address

i dont know what went wrong

3

i may have fixed it.

well at least i am getting an ip.

what i did was under profile i selected the pppoe-pool i created in LOCAL ADDRESS and REMOTE ADDRESS

i could swear that when it was working REMOTE ADDRESS didnt have anything selected.

maybe thats what was missing?

4

If you don’t have anything in “remote address”, the router (PPPoE server) doesn’t know what ip address(es) to hand out to connecting clients. So the error message is perfectly legitimate and that definitely was the cause of your problem.

What led to this change (that remote address was empty now) is of course out of my insight into this :wink: …

Best regards,
Christian Meis

5

right. so what about local address? does it need that?

i was looking at the winbox pool screen and everytime someone logs in they are given TWO ips.

P.S. i could have sworn it worked with NOTHING in the remote address section when i first set it up. as long as its working now i am totally cool!