Very basic setup

RouterOS Beginner Basics
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Hello all,

This is my first time setting up a Mikrotik router, and so far I am very impressed with it’s features and wealth of options!

However, I am having a tough time getting a very basic setup up and running.

I have been provided a static IP address from my service provider. I am trying to program that IP address into the router, and am having a difficult time.

The router is an RB750, and works perfectly out of the box (using DHCP on another network).

However, when I try to use the static IP, I lose connection to the internet, however I can still ping the gateway.

Here is what I have tried (from webfig and winbox)

IP > DHCP Client > remove existing client entry
IP > Addresses > add new entry for IP address/netmask
IP > Routes > add gateway (0.0.0.0/0 dest xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)

Am I missing something here? The router comes out of the box with NAT rules preloaded, so I didn’t think I needed to mess with them; i’m not concerned with DNS just yet as that seems pretty simple to get running.

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check the following


ip should be on correct interface
check nat rule in firewall
disable dhcp on wan if running


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3

would anything in the NAT setup need to be changed just because I went from a DHCP to Static IP on the WAN side?

I have just left NAT settings at the default out of box settings. If I factory reset the router, and use DHCP, everything works fine.

4

no change in firewall required

but recheck nat rule especially this rule chain=srcnat action=masquerade out-interface=ether1 ( eth1=your wan ip)


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