Thanks Butch. And yes, I intend to get your firewall but I am in the kiddie pool and want to do some swimming before buying a floatie! I am enjoying learning the platform and am putting it to good use routing this mess of a bridged network. I will be calling on you for firewall and QOS soon though.
-Ty On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 14:00 -0500, Ty Featherling wrote: > > Facepalm! I just realized I do have a public on this one as well. That > > actually leads me to a different question. > > > > This is my primary DHCP server. It currently handles our entire network > > except for the handful of sites I have routed now. I had some trouble > when > > I initially set it up and found that adding a public address to the > > interface that is within the network it is handing out addresses for > solved > > it. As a result I have several public IPs assigned to this interface. Is > > this necessary? Somehow I doubt it but couldn't get it going otherwise > and > > was in a crunch to do so. > > > > Thoughts? > > There is a really LONG way to answer this question. The short answer, > however, is that on RouterOS, you must have an IP assigned in the range > you want to provide dhcp services for UNLESS you are simply using this > as a relay server. That being said, I'd suggest a good firewall, such > as the one that can be found at http://store.wispgear.net/ > > :-) > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation * > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > * NOTE THE NEW PHONE NUMBER: 702-537-0979 * > ******************************************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120725/be375778/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
