Any ip binding automated

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I work for a organization and we do a lot of hotspots with Calubrus/HP MSM controllers. We are now switching to Mikrotik for our hotspots. There is a feature on the Calubrus/HP controllers I am trying to replicate on mikrotik.

When an individual connects to a hotspot with a Calubris/HP controller running the hotspot the host can have a static ip address information set on their pc that the Calubris/HP controller will automatically accept those values and masquerade as it’s gateway, issue up the user agreement. Allow the client to negotiate and route out.

So for example our hotspot subnet is 172.16.252.1/24 and the client connects with a 192.168.1.45/24 with a default gw of .1
The HP will pretend it is 192.168.1.1 on the fly and communicate wth this client.

I have seen the mikrotik do this with ip bindings but I want to know if there is a way to have the mikrotik do this binding automatically instead of me having to manually go in and create a binding for the host.

I would like this to work for any combination of public or private ip addresses that a host may connect with that do not match the hotspot subnet in use.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Or better yet a link to resources addressing this exact subject. Ohh and feel free to tease me for not finding the info as long as you know where it is :slight_smile:
Thanks
Brent
The Network Operations Company

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Yes, you want to ensure the MikroTik “hotspot-address-pool” in the hotspot server setup has been defined.
This will automatically masquerade all new users behind an address from this designate address pool.

On top of this, a quick note in-case it’s still relevant, when I was working with Colubris units about 5 years ago, there was an issue we had to address where the TX and RX radius values from a Colubris were the reverse of how everyone else reported them. This may have changed but just a heads up in case you’re using them :wink:

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I did that already, when you use the hotspot auto creation wizard it auto creates the pool for the subnet defined for your bridge. I want to masquerade addresses that are outside of my default pool.

When an idiot with a static address connects to the hotspot and that static address does not match the default pool I want the mikrotik to accept that that user is an idiot with an ip address that does not match the pool. I want the mikrotik to automatically accept his information and route him without me having to go into ip bindings and create a binding for him manually. The reason I need this is so that we meet specific hotel standards for any ip that the nomadix and calubrus/hp’s do on the fly already.

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This thread is closed I got my awnser