Sorry if this answered somewhere already, but I did search and it may just seem like a question I’m under the impression would have been covered by now.
Say you have a device with multiple interfaces / multiple IP’s, is there a preferred way to add these so if the device can be reached via these other interfaces/IP’s through telnet or winbox (especially useful if you need to quickly find another way in for e.g.) or for just “documentation’s sake.”
I tried adding more addresses under the device settings (it has the drop down arrow that creats another field for additional IP(s)) it just never keeps anything but one IP when you OK or APPLY (the one DNS resolved when the device was added by DNS name originally).
Are you talking about adding management IPs to “/ip services”? That only takes one network/host address, if you need multiple leave it at quad zeroes and use firewall rules to block instead. If you have many management networks, address lists come in handy:
sorry, i was talking about the device settings in “The Dude”
so when you do have multiple IP’s/Interfaces and say you have Ping setup on that device… but it decides to show down b/c the only IP it pings when added was the IP address that was used by DNS when the device was added…
but in a case like this… i wouldn’t want it to show up as down (maybe partially), also … if there are other ways to get into “said device” such as another interface that you could reach through a secondary backhaul (e.g.) … i also wouldn’t mind reflecting this as well, but I try to manually add the IP’s (there is a place in the device settings to add more than one…but it just won’t keep any additional IP addresses I try to add)