IP Pool Management
Document revision 1.1 (17-Feb-2003)
This document applies to the MikroTik RouterOS v2.7
IP pools are used to define range of IP addresses that is used for DHCP server and
Point-to-Point servers
Packages required : system
License required : Any
Home menu level : /ip pool
Protocols utilized : None
Hardware usage: not significant
Software
Package Installation and Upgrading
IP Addresses
and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Authentication,
Authorization and Accounting
Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Client and Server
HotSpot Gateway
Universal Client Interface
General Point to
Point Settings
IP pools simply group IP addresses for further usage. It is a single configuration
point for all features that assign IP addresses to clients.
Note that whenever possible, the same ip address is given out to each
client (OWNER/INFO pair).
Submenu level : /ip pool
name (name) – name of the pool
ranges (string) - 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 define a pool named ip-pool with the 10.0.0.1-10.0.0.125
address range excluding gateway's address 10.0.0.1 and server's address
10.0.0.100, and the other pool dhcp-pool, with the
10.0.0.200-10.0.0.250 address pool:
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> add name=ip-pool ranges=10.0.0.2-10.0.0.99,10.0.0.101
10.0.0.126
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> add name=dhcp-pool ranges=10.0.0.200-10.0.0.250
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> print
# NAME RANGES
0 ip-pool 10.0.0.2-10.0.0.99
10.0.0.101-10.0.0.126
1 dhcp-pool 10.0.0.200-10.0.0.250
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>
Command name : /ip pool used print
Statistics:
pool (name) - name of the pool, the address is given from
address (IP address) - IP address assigned to the client
owner (string) - application name, that has given the address out
info (string) - unique client identifier
To see, what addresses are currently used:
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool> used print
POOL ADDRESS OWNER INFO
dhcp-pool 10.0.0.250 DHCP 00:e0:c5:6e:23:1d
[admin@MikroTik] ip pool>
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