So I received a rb2011 for my rack yesterday, and have been combing through the wiki, various tutorials/videos, etc to get this thing set up, but no matter what I do nor how I do it, I can’t get it to work the way I want it.
Out of the box it won’t let anything on the LAN connect to the internet, but it receives info from modem, and even was able to download and install an update.
In all of the DHCP/lease, ARP, etc settings I worked through, I couldn’t get any static IPs to take and hold. They would just recycle between busy/waiting status.
I have a dynamic IP from my ISP.
I need to setup over 20 static IPs, and allow dynamic ips, that don’t overlap.
Everything on the LAN must have internet access.
I need to port map/forward a multitude of ports to various local IPs.
Once I get that working correctly I’ll be golden.
After that I’m looking into setting up an wireless AP as a backup WAN/Internet so that I can use my phone if/when local ISP goes down.
As far as the static LAN IP:
I did this manually, adjusting settings on occasion to test results, nothing positive.
I even tried the dynamic to static route, still wouldn’t hold after a disconnect or restart/reconnect.
dynamic DHCP seemed to work most of the time though.
The finish physical layout will be something similar to this:
Cable Modem> RB2011 >AP for backup ISP
24 port Switch > Devices & Wifi/switch(old router)
When modem is hooked up to RB2011, it’s in Eth1, Eth2 feeds switch.
I have since reset the modem and still have had no luck, sadly I didn’t backup the settings before I did a reset.
I have spent a full day and half and I can’t figure out what I’m missing and not understanding.
For the time being I’m back using my old router to get internet access.
you should have a bridge interface which connect to all your LAN interfaces.
then you should create a dhcp pool and dhcp server which its interface need to be this bridge interface.
or you can use the quick setup method by press on the quick set button,
To the best of my recollection I have tried both when I was working on everything the other day with no positive results.
I did ensure all of my interfaces were set to the bridge.
I’m fairly positive I’m just overlooking something simple-ish, but I can’t be sure.
I had the dynamic portion of the DHCP server working correctly, It was in trying to set static IP leases via MAC where I ran into trouble there. They would just recycle busy status and never actually bind/lock into an IP. On occasion they would end up with a dynamic pool IP instead of their set IP.
I set this up 2 different ways in trying to make it work, first was manual input. The second was let it acquire a dynamic IP, then set it to static and change the IP. Neither seemed to work correctly for me.
Edit: I want to point out that I did go through various enable/disable/reboot cycles router side and machine side trying to test and force new IP addresses allocation, etc.
Are either of those not a correct way to setup the static LAN IPs?
That was the biggest thing I was wanting to get done first so everything is set and from there I can work on internet and port forwarding specifics.
As far as accessing the internet I can’t remember what all I tried, but I’ll be looking closer into the NAT/Firewall settings. To my understanding though, the default configuration that happens should allow internet access from the LAN, but I may be misunderstanding that.
I’m starting from scratch at the moment and will be working through this again with a clear and less frustrated mind.
EDIT:
Upon a clean slate I have managed to get static IP leases setup with only 1 IP that was switching between busy/bound/waiting constantly. I changed IP again and disabled>enabled it and it managed to fix it.
The internet and webfig also are working now(I’m using winbox and MAC for mgmt), neither of which were working originally. I have done mostly the same thing I did the other day, but maybe I accidentally changed something and didn’t realize it, I can’t say for sure. Im a bit bamboozled as to what happened/I may have done wrong originally, but glad I have the basic stuff working.
I did notice accessing my public ip went straight to the webfig, that’s a must change. Guess I’ll be working in the firewall settings next.
So let me get that straight you just want to make a static ip on your lan in order to make firewall rules better.
if so let your device lease an ip address from your dhcp server, then enter to the leased ip list and press on the ip you want to make static then press on make static (winbox)
or you can set the ip address on the devices themselfs and then remove those ips from the pool list.
