Hi,
I would like to know how can i Disable / Uninstall the web-proxy packge in mikrotik version 3.30.
And also one more thing. I am using Mikrotik version 3.30 with hotspot, at peak time almost 2800 users are online at this time my CPU utilization goes to 100% and my clients start to see strange proxy errors, and more strange thing is that i am nor using any proxy server.
What could be the issue.
Looking forward for a quick and positive reply.
Hotspot uses Webproxy. and no, you cannot remove Webproxy package - it’s in ‘system’ package
maybe it’s time to add one more router? =)
Shooting from the hip here, but v4 Hotspots (and I believe 3.30 as well) involve the HTTP servlets as a proxy via the following dynamic NAT rule:
13 D chain=hs-auth action=redirect to-ports=64874 protocol=tcp hotspot=http
They also contain the following dynamic NAT rule higher up:
1 I chain=hotspot action=jump jump-target=pre-hotspot
at the second position, so well before the Hotspot redirects HTTP traffic to its servlet.
So wouldn’t the following bypass the HTTP servlet web proxy for non-local HTTP traffic:
/ip firewall nat
add chain=pre-hotspot hotspot=auth dst-address-type=!local protocol=tcp dst-port=80 action=accept
Or even without a protocol and port to bypass all traffic.
You’d regain full control of the dynamic addresses such as “/login”, “/status” etc. because only authenticated users that aren’t trying to hit the router itself get bypassed.
Haven’t tried it and I’m offsite the entire week but that might work.