separate DHCP pools for each port

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hi there!

I have an RB2011UiAS-RM, and I’m having trouble setting up the DHCP server to provide different pools for each port.
I need to split my office up into 3 or 4 different networks(for VoIP, Dev PCs and general office PCs etc) and I was planning on for example, having the VoIP switch connected to eth3 with a pool of 192.168.11.1-192.168.11.25, the Dev Switch on eth4 and a pool of 192.168.12.1-192.168.12.25 and so on.

But DHCP doesn’t seem to work unless Bridge-Local is selected as the Interface. If I try to set the interface to a specific port, it says that it’s invalid. Does anyone know what I’m missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt

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Don’t forget to add an ip address for that interface and also to dhcp-networks. You may also want to remove that specified port/s from the bridge.

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After some more playing around, I disabled bridge-local, under Bridges in the web interface, and added the info to IP>Addresses, which sorted my problem out. But why do I need to fill in both IP>Pool and IP>Addresses for it to work?

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I could’ve sworn I responded to this already, but anyway…
I managed to figure out that the default bridge was causing my issue. So DHCP works fine after disabling it.

Now I just need to figure out how to route traffic to/from ether 1 and 2, as I will have two WAN connections, over to ether 3-10. Any tips on where to start?

Cheers,

Matt