Adding Addresses

Assume you need to configure the MikroTik router for the following network setup:

Please note that the addresses assigned to different interfaces of the router should belong to different networks. In the current example we use two networks:

• The local LAN with network address 192.168.0.0 and 24-bit netmask 255.255.255.0 The router's address is 192.168.0.254 in this network.
• The ISP's network with address 10.1.1.0 and 24-bit netmask 255.255.255.0 The router's address is 10.1.1.12 in this network.

The addresses can be added and viewed using the following commands:

[MikroTik] ip address> add address 192.168.0.254/24 interface Local
[MikroTik] ip address> add address 10.1.1.12/24 interface Public
[MikroTik] ip address> print                                                
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic
#   ADDRESS            NETWORK         BROADCAST       INTERFACE          
0   192.168.0.254/24   192.168.0.0     192.168.0.255   Local              
1   10.1.1.12/24       10.1.1.0        10.1.1.255      Public             
[MikroTik] ip address>

Here, the network mask has been specified in the value of the address argument. Alternatively, the argument 'netmask' could have been used with the value '255.255.255.0'. The network and broadcast addresses were not specified in the input since they could be calculated automatically.