Hi everyone,
we have a CSS610 with SwOS 2.18.
In the System tab, if I choose Static as Address Acquisition, I have nowhere to put the subnet mask and the default gateway.
Am I missing something really obvious here?
Thanks in advance
Sebastien
same here. not able to set this (yet?)
On SwOS one doesn’t enter subnet mask nor gateway, they are not needed due to the way SwOS communicates. SwOS doesn’t ever start connections and it always replies to the connection initiator’s apparent MAC address (which can be gateway’s MAC address in reality).
Correct.
You may want to read more here:
https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/SWOS/CSS610+series+Manual#CSS610seriesManual-System
SwOS uses a simple algorithm to ensure TCP/IP communication - it just replies to the same IP and MAC address packet came from. This way there is no need for Default Gateway on the device itself.
That is neat. But I wonder why reinvent the wheel and confuse people?
Anyway, I’ll test it and let you know.
Thank you!
wow, the more you know. nice, thank you