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JimHeck

Hi Samsung,

Ah! Following your tip, I did a conf reset and reconfriged from scratch, and yep, you guessed it, they came alive again! I'd love to know how they became misconfiged, but prob will leave well alone, on the basis if it isnt broke, then dont fix it!!

Thanks and rgds
Jim

JimHeck

For Oldman,

Yes, I was experimenting with all the different power levels.

For samsung172,

I suspect that its just the transmit part of the card thats broken, hence I can detect other WiFi on the campus, but not the other end of the link on which I was experimenting.

Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, Pls see my post at http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68843. It definitely looks like these two units are broken, not a sniff of RF out of them. Can anyone help me with understanding how this happened. Normis says that 'by encreasing' the power the cards may be damaged, but ...

JimHeck

Hi Normis,

Thanks for the quick reply. UUmm, looks like the cards might be damaged. I cantg see anything in the scanner, other than other wiFis in the area, but not the one I am looking for.

Sadly the log is lost, as I have rebooted.

Jim

JimHeck

Hi, I have been experimenting with a short PtP 1.5Km link using two of these devices. Initially I used this post http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Bridging_Networks_with_SXT to set them up. I was getting a CCQ of 80/80 approx, and signal levels of abou -67 Db. They initially worked fine, and with Nsteme...

JimHeck

Actually, with two devices a simple Cat5 cable (between the two POE injectors) is all you need.

Oh yes, you're right, of course. My thinking was that the two power injectors will require protecting from the weather in some form of "box"

Jim

JimHeck

Hi Hotz1, Thanks for this. I agree, an omni a the relay point might not be very good. I think this has been called the 'hidden terminal effect' in the past. I might well opt for 2 x SEXTANTS at the relay. But even with two I will need some way of injecting the power, so there will have to be some fo...

JimHeck

Hi Folks, I have been experimenting with two recently aquired SEXTANTS over the last few days, and they seem to work very well. I wish to use them to link two non line of sight locations, and I have a third location which is line of sight to both the others, so the setup will look like. LOC A RELAY ...

JimHeck

Dear C Brown, Oh, _many_ thanks, just what I was looking for, and had the units up and running very easily! At some stage I would like to use a routing solution, and I notice that there is a quick setup option for doingthis in Winbox. Other things I'd like advice on is - how do I get a fast link. Us...

JimHeck

Hi, I'm familiar with Mikrotik boxes, but have only really used them over ethernet/CAT5 links. I now wish to set up a poit to point link with two SEXTANTs that I have just received. I can talk to them via Winbox, over the CAT5 cable OK, and I can see the default set up script. Initially I wish to se...

JimHeck

Thanks Normis. Good suggestion! Does the UPnP for Xbox work OK with HotSpot??

Jim

JimHeck

Hi, I am considering upgrading from ver 3 to ver 4 so that I can enable UPnP for XBox live users, but I am nervous lest I get swamped with lots of other peer to peer stuff sucking up bandwidth. Is there any way that I can limit the UPnP so that it only allows the XBox stuff through? Or maybe there i...

JimHeck

fewi, Many thanks. I have now configured my Radius to include an extra attribute "Mikrotic_Rate_Limit" and below I have pasted the output of the Radius (taken from the radius log) in response to an auth request (I've changed the IPs and Username). The MT box doesnt seem to respond (alothou...

JimHeck

fewi, Yes, I am using an external radius (not MT User Manager), but I dont know about CoAs (never come across them). I'd be very grateful if you would point me to the relevant section of the WiKi - I could see anything when I searched. And maybe give me some idea of how I can check that they are arr...

JimHeck

OOppss,

Apols. Thats how I am doing it (I used to do it via calling a script, but forgot that I changed to using the settings in default user profile.

But the question still remains. I dont seem to be able to alter the queue parametrs for individual user once its set up!

rgds Jim

JimHeck

Hi, Every time someone logs in to my hotspot, I generate a Simple Queue for each user, using a script called in User Profile/Scripts. These queues appear in the Queue list as 'Dynamic', ie with a D in the left hand column in WinBox. All the paramaters are greyed out, so I cannot change them mannuall...

JimHeck

Thanks mrz! Looks like I'll have to study the manual!

thanks and rgds, Jim

JimHeck

Hi mrz,

Thanks for the link to the new manual.

I was wondering if I should expect my old (ver 2.9) scripts to work with the new box (ver 3.30). Or will I have to make modifications to the scripts?

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, I've just taken a new MT box into use with version 3.30. I'd be interested to know if the scripts on the old (ver2.9.51) box should work without modification. If not, is there a doc anywhere that list the differences in the two scripting languages? Grateful for any advice/comments. rgds Ji...

JimHeck

Hi Surfer Tim,

BRILLIANT - no I hadnt, I have now, and its fine!
Many many thanks, I have been puzzling about this for some time
best rgds

Jim

JimHeck

Hi,

I wonder if you found anything!!

rgds

jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks. I have a Hotspot system, which uses an external radius server to authenticate users. It works fine. I now want to give access from the hotspot system to a second radius box (which will store user, passwords etc which are DIFFERENT from the original box). (The second radius box wont just be...

JimHeck

Hi Congo, Just to let you know that I have now replaced the same three capacitors in my 450 unit, and bingo, its repaired. MANY thanks for the tip. I used higher working voltage caps (25v) they were taller than the originals, so now lie on their sides. Looks funny, but works fine. I also use 470 uF ...

JimHeck

Hi Congo,

Many congratulations, and thanks for letting me know. I am definitely going to try it, but it will be a week or so before I can. I'll let you know how I get on!

best rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi Congo,

How very interesting! I noticed the same thing about the caps. Pls let me know how you get on!

rgds

Jim

JimHeck

Yes, I tried via the serial port, but no good.

I have compared some of the voltages on some of the ICs against a known working unit, and there are significant descrenencies on what I think are some voltage regulator ICs!

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, I have 450 routerboard, about 1 year old, and it appears to have died! The symptoms are that when first powered up the blue LED comes on for about half a second, and then goes out. The unit is totally unresponsive. I have tried 3 different power supplies. Anyone else had this problem. Any ...

JimHeck

Thank you! I'll be very interested to know what you find!

rgds

Jim

JimHeck

Hi sergejs, I have double (triple) checked that my IE7 DOES accepto cookies from other internet sites. As you suggest, a couple of days ago I sent a description of the problem, plus a supout file to support. I have received an automatic acknowledgement ([Ticket#2008110966000094] Hotspot Cookie Logon...

JimHeck

Hi Sergejs,

I wonder if you have been able to have a look at this for me yet, or if you will be able to soon?

Please let me know if you need any more information, etc.

Its important for us as we want to upgrade from ver 2.9 to version 3.x!!

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi Sergejs,

Yes, you're correct. I hope you can reproduce the problem!

rgds

Jim

JimHeck

Hi,

I have just got back from the site, and can 100% confirm that the cookie is being generated.

rgds

Jim

JimHeck

Hi sergejs, I am 99% certain that the cookie IS generated. I will treple check when I next visit the site (in abt 6 hours) and let you know. I should say that the IE7 is running on XP, and the MT is running on a 493 board. Its v strange, as the cookie login works perfectly with Firefox. rgds Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, I have a hotspot setup on ver 3.15, and the cookie login works fine with irefox, but not with IE7. When I hit the Logon button, I am returned to the logon page and have to renter my username and password again. (I have another setup on ver 2.9.41, and IE7 works fine with that version.) Any...

JimHeck

Hi Normis,

Many thanks.

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi All, The first presentation on the second day at the recent Krackow MUM was by a gentleman from Germany on how to set up a WiFi network from scratch using ver 3.x. He had some very nice and detailed slides, but I didnt take notes, as he said the presentation would be on the MT web site. I've had ...

JimHeck

Hi All, I have approx 50 users running under HotSpot to access the internet. They are all connected via CAT5 ethernet (no wireless). They are subnetted onto 4 separate subnets. My hardware is a fairly old PC, running an AMD chip at 1.2 GHz with 512 MB RAM. I have one of the Mikrotik 4 port ethernet ...

JimHeck

Hi, Im in a real muddle, and I hope someone can help me. I have three simple queues, and I want to ready the value of total-bytes into three global variables, and then use the value of these global variables in subsequent calculations. I can set the variables, but cant see how to access the values o...

JimHeck

Dear MRZ,

Many thanks - just what I needed!!

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi, Having looked at the several excellent examples of controlling customer bandwidth using queues, I am now attempting to impliment a system of my own. I can use the /queue simple total-bytes property to see customers activity, but in WinBox there are readings for Upload bytes and download bytes. I...

JimHeck

Hi About 2 years ago, I bought from Mikrotik (whilst attending the training session in Malta) a 4 port ethernet card, Mikrotik part number RB44. It has been working fine in my PC based MT box, which has one 2 other interfaces, one on the mother board and another on a single ethernet card in a PCI sl...

JimHeck

kanch,

It doesnt do much, just writes the IP addresses listed in the hotspot system into the log. The only reason I wanted to get it working was to learn the syntax of the scripting language.

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

JJCinAZ ,

Thanks your msg boosted out confidence enought to upgrade over the last weekend to 2.9.41 - it worked perfectly. Many thanks
rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi Folks,

We should now really upgrade (although ver 2.9.18 has worked extremely well for us since it came out, but we are now doing some more scripting, and I think we would benefit from upgrading).

Any pitfalls, difficulties, other comments?

rgds Jim Heck
MilNet UK

JimHeck

mrz,

Ah yes, I understand now! Many thanks

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

mrz,

Ah Ah! It does, many thanks. Thinks, "I wonder where is explains that in the documentation!!"

Great - Many thanks again

rgds Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, I wonder if anyone can help me witth the script below (which I am hoping to get to email me with my users bandwidth usage) :local traf;:global mytext; /queue simple :for i from=1 to= 254 do = { :if ([/queue simple find target-addresses=("192.168.3." . $i)] != "") do={ :...

JimHeck

Hi Skillfull,

Ah Ah!

:foreach i in=[/ip hotspot host find server=hotspot1] do = {:log info [/ip hotspot host get $i address]}

Works perfectly. Success after a days work. This scripting business is hard to learn! MANY thanks for your help!

Jim

JimHeck

Hi Sam,

OK how about this one

:foreach i in=[/ip/hotspot/host find server=hotspot1] do = {:log info [/ip/hotspot/host get $i address]}

doesnt seem to work either!"

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi skillful,

Nope, still does work!

thanks and rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi :foreach i in=[/interface find type=ether] do = { :put [/interface get $i name] :log info [/interface get $i name] } Works fine. BUT :foreach i in=[/ip/pool/used find pool=hs-pool-2] do = { :put [/ip/pool/used get $i address] :log info [/iip/pool/used get $i address] } Doesnt. Can anyone help me ...

JimHeck

Hi, I am really new to scripting. so please forgive me if this question has been asked/answered before. Our box has 4 internal networks (each on a separate ethernet card). They are 192.168.1.0/24, 192.168.2.0/24. 192.168.3.0/24, and (you guessed) 192.168.4.0/24. It is set up with 4 ip pools, one for...

JimHeck

Ravin, We use ClearBox radius server (on Windows) which uses a MicroSoft Access database. The SQL statement we use is Select Password FROM Users WHERE Name='$u' AND ValidTill>Now() where $u is the username and ValidTill is a field in the database which stores the date/time when the user will run out...

JimHeck

Hi Y-internet. The statement we us is Select Password FROM Users WHERE Name='$u' AND ValidTill>Now() We are using an MS Acess database with a ClearBox Radius server (http://www.xperiencetech.com/) which we have found works extremely well and stable. (Although not free, not too expensive!) If you are...

JimHeck

Thanks Tom,

Yes, Session Time out would fit the bill. Now I must figure out how the radius server can generate it correctly!

Thank a lot

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi Folks, We are using our MT box with Hotspot activated. We use a radius server to authenticate users. We store the users time limit (ie date and time) that they have bought in the radius database, and use a simple sql statement to test if their accounts are valid when they login. Our problem is, t...

JimHeck

Many thanks for the input on this. The solution was as per jarosoup's comment above. Now each client only gets one DNS server address, which is excatly what I wanted!

Many thanks again
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi, Can someone help me with this? In ip/dns my MT box is configured with primary and secondary dns servers as supplied by my ISP (ie out on the internet) My hotspot clients are supplied their IP numbers and dns servers by the MT DHCP server. The DNS servers they get is the gatway address on the loc...

JimHeck

Hi Eugene,

Many thanks for your offer, but unfirtunately I have now lost the configuration details, and now that I have the "BandingBox" solution have no need to get this functionality of MT working.

Again, many thanks for your offer of assistance, its really appreciated

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi Macgavier Thanks very much for your help, but when I add the queue for download traffic as per the example: /queue tree add name=Download parent=Local max-limit=10240000 /queue tree add parent=Download queue=pcq-download packet-mark=users I have three Local interfaces, wont I need a queue for eac...

JimHeck

Eugene, I didnt mean to say that it cannot be made to work, only that I could not get it to work on my box. I did have a session with MT support a couple of months ago (not on this forum) and sent them about 8 versions of rif files over a period of 2-3 months, but still no luck. I think that they an...

JimHeck

Hi I am one of the others who have been struggling with load balancing for months, but without success. I did get the policy routing working on ver 2.8, but on 2.9 it was difficult, and I am not sure if it was working really well. (We had 2 ADSL Lines). At the MUM in Prague someone suggested "E...

JimHeck

Hi, I have an Internet connection to my MT box, with about 30 clients on 3 separate client networks (separate ethernet cards). They connect via Hotspot/Masquarade. I want to share all the available bandwidth of the internet connection equally between all of the clients (regardless of which ethernet ...

JimHeck

Hi Bruno, Thanks for that. So far on this new build most of my FW rules have been placed by SetUp (for HotSpot). Its these that have lost their comments. I found that I could add a comment from the terminal interface, but not in WinBox. But that when I did a reboot, the comment was lost. Rules inser...

JimHeck

Hi I might be missing something here, but it seems that having upgraded from ver 2.9.10 to ver 2.9.14 I seem to have lost all the comments in my Firewall rules, and also the ability to add comments. I find comments in the Firewall rules ESSENTIAL ;-) to keep track of whats happening. Have I missed s...

JimHeck

Sergejs,

Thank you. I think that has solved the problem. I think the key was setting 'transparent-proxy=no' for HotSpot user profile.

rgds
Jim

JimHeck

Hi All, For some time I have been attempting to get Policy Routing to work with my ver 2.9 Hotspot system. We have two ADSL connections, and want to route all port 80/http traffic down one adsl, and the rest down the other. We did this on ver 2.8, using Mangle and Mark Routing and it worked perfectl...

JimHeck

I would dearly love to see a demo of how to use hotspot with multiple adsl lines. I have been struggling for ages to get this working! I am already booked, and looking forward to the event. I dont think I am really qualified/experienced enough to be questioned on anything but very basic stuff. We ha...

JimHeck

Ronnie, When we were running ver 2.8 we had two WAN (ADSL) connections and separate ethernet cards. We have a small hotspot based comminity on the private site of the router. We didn't use load balancing, but we did use mangle firewall rules to route all the port 80 packets down one ADSL link, and u...

JimHeck

hai guyss!!!!! my load balancing is working now!!!! :D what i did wrong was in my masquerading. i solved it and now it's running! :D i'm so happy! :D thanks guys!!! :D Bejan, I (and I think quite a few others on this forum) would be most interested in your set up. I have been trying to get load bal...

JimHeck

Hi,

I'd be interested if the dates fit my committments.

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

I posted on 14 Aug a request for help in getting the routing things going, but with no real reply forthcoming. I did Policy routing going on ver 2.8, but no EQMR. It seems a pity that now anyone helping with beta testing can get no formal support (unless you pay USD 250 per month!!) I still have bee...

JimHeck

Hi Kipel, OK, so I have upgraded to rc10, but the symptoms are the same. The set up here is a small cat5 newtwork with about 25 hot spot users, with two adsl connections on separate ethernet interfaces. Here is what I have done. 1. I checked that using both gateways separately that when a client use...

JimHeck

Hi All,

I would be interesting to hear from anyone who has got either of these going. I have had no success with either after very carefully following the guidance in the documentation.

Is it broken in the beta?? (I am using rc5 at present)

rgds
Jim Heck

JimHeck

Hi I have successfully been using ver rc_5 on our ethernet based hotspot system. It seems pretty stable. We have found one major difference from ver 2.8, however, and this is that clients (typically running Win XP) have to disable their Zone ALarm firewalls to be able to use the system. They were ab...

JimHeck

Hi, Some of our (ethernet) based clients are complaining that when they click on a link after either a goof#dle or ask.co.uk search that the resultant page does not load. The URLs produced by these search engines is like: http://web.ask.co.uk/redir?u=http%3a%2f%2ftm.ask.co.uk%2fr%3ft%3dan%26s%3dau%2...

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