I have setup a basic hotspot. By basic I mean I have it up and broadcasting an ssid that laptops can connect to and surf. I’ve found plenty of how to’s to get that far.
Where I’m falling short is setting up a splash page. Ideally someone connects to the network and is redirected to the splash page for payment etc. Can someone direct me to a good wiki?
Can the splash page be setup within the Router OS access point or does it have to point to a webserver elsewhere on the network?
The dns name of the hotspot that is setup in the ‘hotspot setup’. Does that have to be properly setup in my dns server or is it just local to the ROS and hardware of the access point. ( IE Only people connecting on the hotspot network resolve to it not the whole world.)
I also don’t have it handing out private ips correctly. (I am learning on a level 3 license and set it to ‘bridge’. what should I set the mode to to properly allow me to hand out from a private dhcp pool?)
Forgive me, I now these are newbie questions. I’m just taking some time to build a hotspot for fun with some gear on the bench for the learning exercise.
thanks in advance,
This looks to be a fun learning exercise
1.) You need at least a level 4 license for the router board to operate as an AP. Otherwise only one machine will be able to associate to it at a time. Mode should be AP Bridge.
2.) There is a thread on the general forum that goes over some of the hotspot options that are available for the splash page and what to do to edit them. Basically you need some HTML knowledge to edit them, they can be stored locally but you are restricted in what you can do since the RB is not a web server. You can host them remotely by loading the remote page in an i-frame I believe to give you a full fledged web server. http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/sample-hotspot-page-sticky-please/23665/1
3.) The DNS name only needs to be local since the RB with hotspot will be redirecting DNS queries to itself, if you want to allow DNS to go past the hotspot, then you will need to have the domain name point to the private IP of the router so people can get back to it to sign out and load up the status page.
4.) For the DHCP, all you need is the pool with private IP addresses and a DHCP server set up within the right range. If you’re not handing out private IPs, then that means you don’t have your pool and or server setup right. Here is an example of DHCP settings that will hand out IP addresses in 192.168.50.0/23. Edit as needed.
hi
i was testing mikrotik Os(winbox) to see its properties and features, i changed some arrangement, now i want to restart mikrotik, what should i do now to be as a defualt setting?