how to structure network routing

RouterOS General
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Hi

I need some advise on how to do the routing on my network.

We are a very big wireless user group and run all our access points and client routers in bridge mode and use the 192.168.1.xx ip’s. problem is we running out of ip’s. I need to know what is the most effective way to manage this problem and with the least amount of efforts. we have lots of ftp, game servers, and other servers on the network that needs to stay a constant ip’s, for people to access them. these servers are hosted by individuals on the network and not in one location.

Is it possible to have dhcp on the access points assigning maybe 192.168.1.xx and 192.168.2.xx on another access point but still able to operate as if it was one network? Bare in mind we have about 7 High sites and each high site has minimum 3 wireless interfaces 2.4 omni, 5ghz sector and 5ghs grid to link to the next high site.

Perhaps natting is required or something, hope the pro’s can help me out. I am a bit of a noob when it comes to this so detail explanations required with an example if possible.

Thanks in advance

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well, you may use 192.168.0.0/23 instead of 192.168.1.0/24 addressing

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EDIT - Ha to slow read above :slight_smile:

just run a larger subnet so network such as 192.168.0.1/23 will do the trick.
in mtik devices just put in new address with network 192.168.0.xxx/23 or 192.168.1.xxx/23)

range will now be 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.254 with broadcast of 192.168.1.255

I would suggest asking Q’s like this in the Begginers forum first.

Cheers

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Bridging such a large network is not wise. It is better to turn each point into router, with separate subnet for each interface. Set routing among points so traffic flows around and that is it.

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any wiki tutorials for this example?