Iam sathish, first of all i really appriciate the help of the professional who serves great
here is my request iam running hotspot server with static IP’s , for MAC binging with a specific Ip iam using ARp reply only option
but iam very sad tht while iam going for new clent installation I want to ping the gateway i.e: mikrotik , But as per my knowledge i cant ping the mikrotik until i enter the Static ARp entry of the specfic PC
i need to allow any mac can ping my mikrotik box should be possible and with full pipe no restriction
Please help me is there any other way to workout this i need the strict staic Ip & MAC binding
Thanks,
S.kumar
Set the interface ARP mode to ‘enabled’ for the time when you’re installing a new client. Once you’re done you make a static entry and switch it back to ‘reply-only’.
The router cannot send traffic to the client if the ARP mode of the interface the client is behind is in ‘reply-only’ mode and there is no static entry yet. You cannot work around that fact.
Entering a static ARP entry statically and manually binds an IP address to a MAC address. I was under the assumption that you’re using reply-only mode to prevent the router from dynamically learning additional entries in order to prevent unauthorized clients from utilizing the router.
in addition to ‘arp-mode=reply-only’ you may use DHCP server with ‘Add ARP for Leases’ ticked - it will automatically add dynamic ARP entries for your users which receive addresses via DHCP