Firewall is blocking when Hotspot active

RouterOS General
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Hi there,

I’m using the MikroTik firewall and hotspot system and have a problem. My firewall has some rules to block access to specific websites, but only in the network range 192.168.10.100-192.168.11.254. There are computers that have a static IP below that range, 192.168.10.90 for example.They should have access to these websites and generally this works fine.

However, if I activate the Hotspot function these clients are also blocked from accessing all websites and I don’t know why. Somehow, even with an IP address of 192.168.10.90 the rule above kicks in. If I disable the rule, everything is fine. If I disable the Hotspot, it’s fine too. Any ideas?

Thanks

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Do you have an address pool set in your hotspot properties? If you do, set it to None. Having a pool set allows the HotSpot to do a 1 to 1 NAT with an address from the pool.

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Yes, that was the problem. I changed the Address Pool to “None”, now it is working fine. Thanks a lot!