I have just setup my MikroTik router so that all hotspot users need to authenticate via my FreedRadius server (with MySQL). I setup a test user in FreeRadius and had them log in on the hotspot splash page and all went well.
Now, I have a backend billing program running (on the same network) with a signup page that gathers all the user information and then in turn dumps pertinant info into FreeRadius' database.
What I'd like to know is how can I send users that need to create an account to the signup page to create an username and password prior to authentication?
In theory it seemed simple... I would add a link on the splash page to go to the signup server. I created a walled garden but I am overlooking something because unauthenticated users keep getting redireted to the login page instead of getting the signup page.
you have to adjust your walled garden rule. The path parameter is the path on the webserver, and needs to start with a slash in your case, so change your
I am using Freeside for the billing backend http://www.sisd.com/freeside And as far as setting up Freeradius, Ramona has a pretty good HOWTO on this post: http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=5756&highlight= That will give you a good overview of setting up Freeradius with MySQL and the Mikrotik. Freeside’s docs will give you decent overview of intergrating Freeside and Freeradius and then of course http://www.freeradius.org and it’s mailing list was most helpful. If I can help in anyway let me know.
Hope this helps.
And bitte Christian your advise worked with the walled garden WooHoo!!!
WooHoo!!!