RouterOS why you should manage static IPs via DHCP

Introduction Now in my first year of Dutch college I specialized in what was called “Cybersecurity & Cloud” which is a specialization heavily focused on infrastructure. And everywhere we were taught and instructed to assign static IPs on the client itself. Now if you think about it for two seconds that’s really stupid in real world applications. Aside from school I also see this constantly in tutorials. Using DHCP has some great advantages, and you’d still want those, but you just want it to assign the same IP to a specific MAC address over and over. Fortunately this is really easy in RouterOS and with this quick tutorial I’ll show you how. ...

July 20, 2022 · 4 min · Fabian

RouterOS how to block users from setting a static IP on a network with DHCP

Introduction Most network use DHCP to assign IP addresses to clients on the network. Now imagine someone (un)intentionally assigning an IP address that is already in use. This can have irritating to disastrous results. To illustrate: imagine taking over an IP of a printer, which is irritating. And now imagine taking over the address of a server or a router. Quite bad, isn’t it? Note: This is only for IPv4, ARP can be used for IPv6 but is uncommon. The IPv6 equivalant of ARP is NDP. ...

July 20, 2022 · 4 min · Fabian