Possible to share a DHCP server over 1 or more interfaces?

talktozee · September 5, 2009, 2:49pm

Is it possible to share a single DHCP server and its networks and pools over one or more interfaces?

Chupaka · September 5, 2009, 5:49pm

add them to bridge

talktozee · September 5, 2009, 6:22pm

Bridges in the Mikrotik OS confound me. I tried a bridge before I created the new DHCP server, but couldn’t get it to work. The docs are a bit cryptic and trial and error didn’t bear any fruit. Care to layout the 5 point crash course in bridges?

eneimi · September 5, 2009, 6:43pm

I doubt this is!
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/interface/bridge.php

[]Create bridge.
[]Add interfaces of interest to the bridge, as ports.
[*]Create dhcp server on the bridge interface.
All devices connected to any of the interfaces added above will obtain ip from the dhcp server on the bridge.

talktozee · September 6, 2009, 2:11pm

Thanks, this worked. As I previously stated, I tried a bridge before but when I added the Interfaces as Ports and assigned the DHCP server to the bridge, each interface’s role under Bridge/Ports would come up as Disabled. I supposed Order-of-Operations is important.

Unrelated sidenotes:

I’ve always found the docs to be a bit cryptic: light on real-world examples, the language is a bit off (English-wise), and it assumes a base amount of knowledge about the topic. I suppose that’s what the Forums and the Wiki are for!
Tags/taxonomy that mirror the MikrotikOS interface would be a welcome addition to the forums - then I simply search by the “IP / DHCP Server” category and perhaps find what I’m looking for.