IP Pool Management

Document revision 16-Dec-2002
This document applies to the MikroTik RouterOS v2.6

Overview

IP pools are used to define range of IP addresses that is used for DHCP server and /ppp

Contents of the Manual

The following topics are covered in this manual:

Installation

The IP pool feature is included in the system package. No installation is needed for this feature.

Hardware Resource Usage

There is no significant resource usage.

IP Pool Description

IP pools simply group IP addresses for further usage. It is a single configuration point for all features that assign IP addresses to clients

IP Pool Setup

IP Pool management can be accessed under the /ip pool submenu: 
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>

   print  print values of item properties
    find  finds items by value
     get  get value of item's property
     set  change item properties
     add  create new item
  remove  remove item
  export
    used
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> print
  # NAME					RANGES
  0 a						10.0.0.0-10.0.0.255
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>
Argument description:

name – name of the pool
ranges - IP address list of non-overlapping IP address ranges in form of: from1-to1, from2-to2,...,fromN-toN. For example, 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.27,10.0.0.32-10.0.0.47
To see the existent pools use print command: 
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> print
  # NAME					RANGES
  0 a						10.0.0.0-10.0.0.255
  1 b						10.0.0.1-10.0.0.27
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>

RADIUS settings

The IP pool name can be specified in a RADIUS server with FRAMED_POOL attribute (id: 88, RFC2869)

Monitoring Used IP Addresses

To see, what addresses are currently used, use used print command: 
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> used print
 POOL		       ADDRESS	       OWNER		    INFO
 b		       10.0.0.27       DHCP		    00:e0:c5:6e:23:1d
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>

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