I want to use this router as a headend to a quasi hotspot. I have several WAPs connected, and I want the specified user to connect and get a dhcp address with no user input, I want their address to come from the pool.
I attempted to setup a leased entry based on the MAC address but since the mac was not discoverd on the network it would not allow the entry to occur.
Am I supposed to accomplish this using ARP?
Where can I enter in a list of 150 MAC addresses with comments to who owns it?
DHCP does not “Discover”. A DHCP Client, makes a request, and a DHCP Server answers that request. If your clients are configured to use DHCP, and they do not receive IP Addresses from your DHCP Server, then you need to look at the network between the DHCP Server and the DHCP Clients - which, can not be routed. I’m almost certain that your “WAPs” needs to be configured as individual DHCP Servers, or they need to act as a DHCP Relay to the DHCP Server on the Mikrotik, because the “Clients” is not on the same network segment as the “Server”
If you want to give them static IP Addresses via DHCP, then this would need to go to your DHCP Server’s Lease Database. If you want them to get dynamic IP Addresses from a pool, you don’t do anything with the MAC addresses, as they will be allocated the next available IP out of a pool once they actually REQUESTED a Address from the DHCP Server.
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if you want to use 150 static dyamic addresses (???) then why use DHCP at all?
I suppose I am handling this the wrong way.
I don’t have any experience with this router.
The client PC is set up to use DHCP so that is can float to different wireless networks.
I don’t want to statically assign from the client or the server.
I don’t want anyone who’s MAC address is not listed somewhere in the router to recieve an IP address.
The waps and router are all on the same network segment and using a linksys router, DHCP is functioning fine.
I purchased the Mikrotik in hopes of increasing the size of allowable MAC address entries.
Ideally, I would like to have a radius server with a username and password and I would like that server to authenticate based on the MAC address requesting access along with the username and password.
The hotspot user list seems to take care of the username/password deal but there doesn’t seem to be any kind of accounting built into to the new router OS to easily manage users.
I was hoping userman would be usable on the routerboard version of the OS, but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Aah, ok well that changes things significantly then.
Use DHCP for addressing as normal - you won’t need any restrictions there. I presume the clients are wireless, so then you need to enable Wireless Authentication - which enables you to,
Once the authentication has happened, the CPE will be linked to the AP, and then the client can make a standard DHCP request for IP Addressing and the like.
I don’t believe this would work if there is anything between the Mikrotik and the CPE as far as the Wireless Link goes..
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