I always wondered how datacenters and ISPs have dynamic addresses for their internal routers. I assume they use DHCP to assign IPs for their routers internally.
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traceroute www.google.com
traceroute to www.google.com (216.58.194.36), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 csvcs-rcl01-vrfdata-rtr.network.sow.com (10.106.55.254) 40.245 ms 32.383 ms 51.452 ms
2 cr01-vrfdata-rtr.network.sow.com (172.16.2.154) 9.771 ms 9.074 ms 8.456 ms
3 brdr-ncpk-098-vrfdata-rtr.network.sow.com (172.16.0.194) 5.710 ms 3.817 ms 3.954 ms
4 ex01-vrfinet-rtr.network.sow.com (172.16.96.198) 5.609 ms 7.787 ms 5.509 ms
5 umicn-ro-te0-0-0-2-303.um.sow.com (150.199.4.77) 5.724 ms 5.581 ms 5.997 ms
6 umicn-kc-te0-0-0-1-100.um.sow.com (150.199.4.46) 15.588 ms 15.061 ms 18.021 ms
7 ks-96-xe-1-1-0-731.sow.com (164.113.254.237) 14.673 ms 14.287 ms 16.528 ms
8 et-2-0-2.492.rtsw.sow.com(64.57.21.253) 13.556 ms 13.452 ms 13.578 ms
9 lo-0.8.rtsw.dall.sow.com (64.57.20.114) 25.208 ms 40.541 ms 25.332 ms
10 162.252.69.177 (162.252.69.177) 23.296 ms * 30.615 ms
11 108.170.240.193 (108.170.240.193) 23.486 ms 23.199 ms 21.986 ms
12 209.85.242.55 (209.85.242.55) 23.041 ms
209.85.242.53 (209.85.242.53) 24.990 ms
209.85.242.55 (209.85.242.55) 23.704 ms
13 dfw25s12-in-f36.1e100.net (216.58.194.36) 37.400 ms 38.749 ms 37.118 ms
Do we have some feature like this in Mikrotik where we can assign the router IP dynamically using a central DHCP server?
In Cisco iOS the interface IP can be allocated dynamically like this:
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Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface FastEthernet0/1
Router1(config-if)#ip address dhcp
Router1(config-if)#end
Router1#
Interface FastEthernet0/1 assigned DHCP address 172.25.1.57, mask 255.255.255.0
Router1#