Dear All,
My Mikrotik RB951G-2HnD router (RouterOS 7.18.2) is connected (port1) to the router I received from my ISP.
Internet is only working when set to Automatic in the Quick set menu under Internet/Address Acquisition.
As soon as I set it to Static with the same IP Address, Netmask and Gateway plus 1.1.1.1 as DNS server, internet stops working. Is there a way to make this work with static settings? Thank you for your help.
Not likely. It could well be that ISP’s router has settings which require it’s downstream clients to acquire address via DHCP (yes, that’s possible … also on ROS devices).
If you want to by-pass ISP’s DNS servers, then you can disable using DNS server addresses, handed out by ISP (that’s in configuration of DHCP client IIRC), and configure your own DNS addresses (in DNS settings). But you’ll have to switch over to “advanced” mode in GUI (instead of QuickSet).
And after you change anything outside QuickSet, never switch back to QuickSet (it’ll mess your config for sure).
Thanks for your reply.
I made an IP reservation for the MikroTik router in the router of the ISP.
I think that this will do it for me for now. Thank you.