I have a RB450 version 4.3- I have it configured as a basic router with ether 1 as the WAN.
My servers on the LAN can access the Internet via ether 1 WAN, if they receive IP
Address from the RB450 DHCP server. When I set the servers to a static IP address i cannot access the Internet . When I remove the Static ip address in the server , then the server has Internet access. Can anyone me figure out? what I am missing in the configuration?
When you’re using the DHCP server it supplies all the routing and gateway info to the clients. Are you providing equivalent values when you set up static IPs? Also are the static IPs in the correct range for the LAN configuration on your router? If the router is configuring it’s LAN addresses in the 192.168.88.0/24 private range you need to assign addresses in the same range. With the right gateway (192.168.88.1), broadcast (192.168.88.255), and possibly name server (192.168.88.1) addresses.
You can reconfigure the router to use different address ranges, but you really need to understand the settings mentioned above first.
# LAN address
/ip address print detail
# DHCP server network settings
/ip dhcp-server network print detail
# DHCP address pool
/ip pool print detail