Sun Jan 08, 2023 4:26 pm
The DHCP implementation of Mikrotik is quite smart, so if you run two DHCP servers on the same L2 segment, they can work simultaneously without interfering with each other. Before leasing an address, the server checks whether the address doesn't respond to pings, so if one of them assigns an address to a client, the other one won't assign the same address even if they use overlapping pools. And both of them (in case of Mikrotik) lease out the address the client asks for unless it is occupied by another client, so even if the server that has leased it originally dies, once the client asks for a re-lease, the other server will accept that and lease the same address to it.
But when you want to see the list of active clients, you have to look at both servers.