Routing using interface as gateway w/DHCP

RouterOS General
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In routerOS, when setting a route, instead of adding a gateway IP address, you can select the only an interface.

  • If that interface is PPPoE, routerOS will automatically set the GW to the PPPoE GW when it connects
  • If that interface has a /30 network on it, routerOS will automatically set the GW to the other available address on the /30

So why can’t routerOS automatically find the default gateway address when DHCP is running on that interface and assign it to that route?

Feature request: routing via dynamic gateway w/out scripting
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Mikrotik, any reason why you would not make this work?

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Maybe I’m missing something here, but when you set add-default-route on a DHCP client to yes, a default route will be added to the routing table with the gateway set to the IP served to the client via DHCP.

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Yes but I don’t want to add a default route, I want to add a specific route.

It would be really nice if instead of an add default route checkbox, they had a “+” that came up with the same options as adding a static route. This would solve many problems.

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actually, single ‘routing-table’ option for DHCP default route would be enough: you always can create separate routing table with default route, and then use routing rules to send only specific traffic to that routing table…

MT? =)