Can Hotspot pass client's mac address?

RouterOS General
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Hi all.

I’m having some hard time trying to change a network config and hope you can help me.

Before: GW (slackware with user auth) → clients
After: GW (slackware with user auth) → RB750 Hotspot (w/o user auth) → clients

I’ve put the hotspot there so that clients dont need to change their pc configs when they want to connect.

GW auth is “IP level”. If a user logs in with an IP, that IP is free to navigate. I had some problems with this (only MT IP was being passed to the GW) and solved it with some dst/src-nat rules for valid IPs.

The GW has some rules to give full auth-free access to some PCs, but it needs their MAC Address to do that.
The problem is that the only MAC its getting there is MT’s.

Is it possible to config the MT so that hotspot client’s MAC get there automatically?


Thanks

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TCP/IP doesn’t work that way. MAC addresses are rewritten by layer 3 hops. The Mikrotik is layer 3 hop, so it rewrites the MAC address to itself.

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OK then.
thank you.