Category: Hotspot
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Belkin/Netgear Routers And Microsoft – Mikrotik Hotspot
So new Belkin routers will give you serious heartburn on your Mikrotik Hotspots. In a normal hotspot server, you will hijack all internet traffic until a user either accepts trial access or logs in. This normally works great with any PC/MAC/Router…unless you are using a newer Belkin router. If a Belkin router can’t connect to…
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Mikrotik Hotspot Bypass For Authenticated Users
By default hotspot will proxy all traffic, even that of authenticated users. This will slow authenticated user traffic as well as make the CPU work harder on your router. To bypass this behavior you can use the following NAT rule: /ip nat firewall add chain=pre-hotspot dst-address=!local hotspot=auth action=accept “local” should be set to your local…
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TekRadius – A Windows Radius Server
TekRadius is a Windows radius server built on the .net platform. It natively supports IETF/Cisco/Mikrotik which is nifty. I know the first thing that pops into mind is why wouldn’t you just use the Windows radius server (IAS). To this I say because IAS requires you to create windows users to authenticate with the server.…
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2nd Redirection Page Mikrotik Hotspot
I was asked recently for a hotspot config that includes a second redirect page. As in: web-page is pulled by standard hotspot page, once the user authenticates they are sent to a second page. This is a somewhat nonstandard configuration, so I figured I would include a quick how-to. In this case, we wanted them…
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IPv6 Authentication for Hotspots
My boy Andrew from down under has some crazy kung-fu whipped together to get your IPv6 clients running with hotspot. Here’s his Forum post and here’s his personal blog post. Keep knocking them outta the park mate…crikey, wallabies, boomerangs and whatever else you guys say down there 😛 hehehe
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Mikrotik Hotspot Ghost User Script
I had a customer show me a strange problem they were having with hotspot. They are doing MAC based authentication off of a usermanager server with 5 or 6 hotspots distributed out in their network. They have it limited down to one login per useraccount, which is normal. The problem is that they would occasionally…