Hello all,
Sorry for the newbie question (new to Mikrotik), but I’m banging my head right now. I have a new NetBox 5 that I’m trying to setup. I’ve powered it on and connected to the ethernet port. It’s not giving out a DHCP address and the quick start guide says to connect to 0.0.0.0. Is this normal? Should it give out ip addresses to a computer connected to the ethernet port?
Thanks in advance
Joe
Is it new, or does there maybe be any old setting in the device ?
First step you should try to download winbox from this site, if you have Windows and run it, to see if you can connect to the device.
Windows 64Bit.
https://mt.lv/winbox64
Windows 32Bit.
https://mt.lv/winbox
Hi bro, welcome to Mikrotik universe!
By default, factory configuration of Mikrotiks do not provide DHCP, you have to configure by yourself.
But, that’s not a problem since you can connect to Mikrotik using MAC in the place of IP by using Winbox, just like the guy above say.
Download Winbox → Open up → Neighbors tab
You should see your Mikrotik if you’re on the same network, click on MAC address and connect to it.