Generally you manipulate the static leases through the API and simply don't
have any dynamic leases (no pool).

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 2:25 PM Cameron Crum <cc...@murcevilo.com> wrote:

> Can't you get the dynamic leases through the API?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:02 AM Kerry <kpenl...@bigtube.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> All I can tell you is our experience with mikrotik dhcp. We have been
>> running two identical vm's for 10 yrs serving up leases. One main vm does
>> all the work, we have a script that runs on each lease
>> assignment/deassignment that logs the mac, ip, and datetime in a log in our
>> IPAM,  (phpIPAM) and a script that runs twice daily to copy the dhcp
>> config, leases, etc to the 'backup' vm. This is a kludge to getting around
>> the lack of a common lease 'database'. We can swap the backup vm into place
>> in a matter of minutes should the main one fail. And then there are the vm
>> backups on top of that.
>> Currently, it is maintaining 6700+ leases without breaking a sweat.
>> And on top of that, you have all the convenience of winbox, which has
>> been invaluable in the day-to-day ops, looking up lease info, client info
>> stored in comments in static leases, poolinfo, etc.
>> If Mikrotik would engineer a way to export dynamic leases as well as
>> static, or set up a db-driven lease system, it'd be perfect.
>>
>>
>> *----- Original Message -----*
>> *From:* Chuck McCown via AF [mailto:af@af.afmug.com] <af@af.afmug.com>
>> *To:* <af@af.afmug.com>
>> *Cc:* ch...@go-mtc.com
>> *Sent:* Sat, 5 Feb 2022 09:58:42 -0700
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DHCP
>>
>> I wonder if that would be more stable than a simple server or VM running
>> free DHCP?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Kerry
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 4, 2022 6:44 PM
>> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] DHCP
>>
>> How about a cheap mikrotik? We use mikrotik dhcp to manage around 6000
>> leases everyday. On a vm of course.
>>
>>
>> *----- Original Message -----*
>> *From:* Chuck McCown via AF [mailto:af@af.afmug.com
>> *To:* <af@af.afmug.com>
>> *Cc:* Chuck McCown <ch...@go-mtc.com>
>> *Sent:* Fri, 4 Feb 2022 17:01:13 -0700
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] DHCP
>>
>> I need to spin up DHCP.  Another company I am affiliated with uses
>> DHCPatriot.  No idea why it is better than free DHCP.  Any recommendations?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
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