hotspot + CAPsMAN

RouterOS Wireless Networking
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Hi,

Maybe this is a beginners question, but I haven’t been able to find any information on wiki or forum.

Suppose I want to create a network of 4 CAPs managed by 1 CAPsMAN, with Open SSID and Captive Portal.

Where should I configure the hotspot profile, upload the html file, etc? In CAPsMAn or in one of the CAPs?

Thanks!

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I haven’t yet tested this myself, though I will probably be doing so in the near future for a similar project. I think it’s helpful if you realize that hotspot and capsman are not connected or related functions, and actually have nothing to do with each other.

I believe the correct solution would be to assign a master and a slave configuration to your CAP provisioning profile, action=create dynamic enabled. Make sure that each configuration is assigned to a separate interface or bridge on the CAPsMan (aka the DataPath settings), then install / setup the hotspot on that particular interface or bridge. The hotspot itself has nothing to do with CAPsMan, it’s simply running on a specified interface, and CAPsMan’s role only functions to connect the client to that interface.

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Thanks for that! I will test that when other projects are finished, and share the results!

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yes, that was correct advice - you create hotspot on interface, so you should add open wlan to that interface

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When you have a working setup for this would you be so kind as to post it. I had tries to do something similar with a trio of networks as VLANs and VirtualAPs (employee / secure POS / customer and guest Hotspot) and it doesn’t really seem to function as I would expect. I set it aside until I could work on it again but and that time has arrived.

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now hotspot is disabled on my setup (preparation for setup from provider), but there are steal 3 wifi networks made by capsman. the difference will be only one: when you start hotspot wizard you should made it on bridge (or master interface) of your visitors network.
there is screen of datapath:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxq9Ym3e0mk-cVkwUlBlX0YySk0
screen of provisioning:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxq9Ym3e0mk-NXkwSmlzMjhIakU/view?usp=sharing
also you should create security cfg and configurations for all your wireless networks

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Create hotspot on CAPsMAN, with capsman bridge as hotspot interface, will be fine )