Hotspot Authentication

[hdavy2002]

Hello folks,

I am brand new to MikroTik. I have a situation where I have a Proxy behind a Mikrotik box. I am trying to enable Hotpot authentication on the LAN side.

As I understand from Logic that, Mikrotik will see the IP of my Proxy and redirect it to a hotspot page.

My problem is that I have lots of users behind that Proxy. Is there another way that I am able to provide my users a hotpot page even when Mikrotik just sees only one machine connecting on it’s LAN?

I was thinking if something like cookie based authentication would work. Don’t know if that possible on Mikrotik.

Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

cheers

[pvidal]

@hdavy2002

Hello folks,

I am brand new to MikroTik. I have a situation where I have a Proxy behind a Mikrotik box. I am trying to enable Hotpot authentication on the LAN side.

As I understand from Logic that, Mikrotik will see the IP of my Proxy and redirect it to a hotspot page.

My problem is that I have lots of users behind that Proxy. Is there another way that I am able to provide my users a hotpot page even when Mikrotik just sees only one machine connecting on it’s LAN?

I was thinking if something like cookie based authentication would work. Don’t know if that possible on Mikrotik.

Thanks for your suggestions in advance.

cheers

Hello,
The thing is that the hotspot uses one login per IP, and if you’re behind a proxy, MK would give out just one IP from the dhcp server pool to the IP that sees (in this case, IP of the proxy). The proxy must be transparent in order to work with hotspot.

If you want to try enabling cookie auth, just put this on your MK terminal:
/ip hotspot profile set numbers=hsprof1 login-by=cookiewhere “hsprof1” you must put your hotspot profile.

Cheers!

[hdavy2002]

Thanks for you input. Just to clarify, incase of cookie, I don’t have to worry about IP based login. I cannot make the proxy transparent at this point. So I am stuck with the proxy behind MK.

cheers