Static addressing outside of DHCP

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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I’m sure that it’s something simple I’m overlooking - Maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I have DHCP (192.168.1.100-192.168.1.254) bridged across 5 ports on my CCR1016-12G and everything is working great. I have a need for other devices connected to the remaining 6 ports to be assigned their own IP address on the same subnet (192.168.1.1/24), but remain outside the DHCP zones. These devices also need to see the outside internet (web servers).

I tried mapping an IP address to each port with no success.

Any help is appreciated.

Matt

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why not assign the devices Ip’s using their MAC’s ? Whenever they connect they’ll get their IP, and dhcp will give different IP’s to everyone else.

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I can assign static addresses to devices by their MAC address, but certain things like access points/switches/security systems can not be within the DHCP range.

I’m sure that there is an easy solution for this - I just need to be pointed in the right direction.

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Why not bridge the additional ports and configure a static IP on the devices connected?

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you can define the pool in a different manner. for example,you can set is as a range - 192.168.88.10 - 192.168.88.254 where addresses from 192.168.88.1 to 192.168.88.9 are used for network infrastructure.

see http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP/Pools
where you can see details on variation how range can be entered.

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Janisk,

Are you saying that I should create a new IP Pool / DHCP server for xxx.xxx.xxx.2 to xxx.xxx.xxx.20 for static addresses, and once an address has been assigned via DHCP, use the Make Static option?

The only issue is that I have three ports that require a specific ip address (192.168.1.90/91/92). I’ve tried assigning an IP directly to a port, but was not able to see the internet.

Thanks again for your help.

Matt

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Multiple routed interfaces cannot have the same subnet assigned to them and the router work. That is the problem you are running into, you have 192.168.1.0/24 assigned to a bridge with 5 interfaces (one routed interface) and then are looking to assign 192.168.1.0/24 to another set of interfaces. Choose a different subnet for each routed interface, or use VLANs to separate management traffic to equipment from guest traffic on the same layer2 network.