Hi !
I have another problem with my Hotspot setup
for many reasons, i do not like my hotspot pool to be in the same subnet as LAN
my lan is 192.168.10.0/24 and mikrotik is standing at 192.168.10.254
if i set the hotspot pool within this (for example 192.168.10.100-192.168.10.200) it is all ok
but i like my people to get a 10.10.10.x IP address.
but when i change the hotspot pool to a pool representing this range, everything is messed up and no one can reach hotspot login page (hotspot hosts show that my for example 192.168.10.30 client is mapped to 10.10.10.149 but as i said no login page and connection)
so first of all, is that possible ?
and second, where is my mistake and how can i do that ?
Hi there
did you assign an ip of class 10.10.10.0/24 to the ether/wlan interface on which the hotspot is running?
Moreover to have a determinstic result try to :
- define the HS pool and set the DHCP to use it
- assign to proper ethernet /wlan port one of the ip belonging to the HotSpot
- execute again hotspot setup
have a nice day
I have a DHCP server and do not want to use mikrotik dhcp server
you mean i should manually add an ip from this range to mikrotik LAN side port ? a 10.10.10.x
i thought it will be managed by hotspot
is it good to have two ip addresses on one interface ?
That’s possible as it is possible to assign ip addresses from the same subnet to different interfaces. amazing but possible 
take a look for example at : http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Load_balancing_multiple_same_subnet_links
have a nice day
definitely i know it is possible to give many addresses to one interface
but my question is : is this best practice ? is it mandatory for hotspot ? do we have to do it manually ?
and after all is that a good idea ?
That’s not elegant I know but it’s working fine. On the other hand we didn’t succed, right now, to find better solution to apply on production systems.