Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:30 pm
It's not a big difference whether you let an /ip dhcp-server lease item refer to MAC address (or, more-precisely, client-id) or an /interface wireless access-list or caps-man access-list item. With DHCP lease, you can use also the vendor ID to choose a pool; with /caps-man access-list (not with /interface wireless access-list), you can use MAC address mask, but I guess it doesn't help much as it is similarly rigid like the DHCP vendor-id.
So the only advantage of wireless access list is that you can segment the network using VLANs rather than having all subnets in the same L2 network. If VLANs seem too complicated to you, RADIUS authentication is even more complicated, so not an option either.
One thing you may have missed, in a static DHCP lease, you can still use a pool rather than a particular IP address if you find that useful. But you still need one lease per each "special" client.