HotSpot configuration

RouterOS Beginner Basics
1

Dear friends,

I would like to run hotspot for only a few ethernet ports excluding the others, how is this configuration achieved?

2

Create a bridge, and name it something obvious like ‘hotspot-bridge’ - then in the bridge > ports menu, connect the ethernet interfaces to the bridge where you want hotspot behavior. Make sure that these ethernet interfaces aren’t set as slaves to some other interface on a hardware switch - there is a configuration item in the ethernet interface’s configuration called “master-port”
Make sure this is set to “none” for all hotspot interfaces.

3

Thanks a lot for the reply, but if anytime I change my mind and want to enable the hotspot for those excluded ethernet ports but only enabling them to login through their MAC addresses, how would be that be configured?



Thanks in advance.

4

Just add them to the bridge / make them run as slaves to the existing master port (if using HW switch for the hotspot interface)

As for MAC address authentication, you enable that in the hs-profile and create users as MAC addresses.
(or just do a bypass host binding with the MAC address)

5

sure but what if I create another bridge and connect the remaining interfaces to it?

6

Then those interfaces belong to a different network than the one you’re running the hotspot on. If you like, you can create a second hotspot to run on the second bridge, but realize that this is a totally new IP network from the existing hotspot.
You could get all crazy and then add the new bridge as a port to the original bridge, but that’s just silly, confusing, complicated, and causes the router to use more resources when forwarding traffic between them (it has to go through the bridging cycle twice for every packet, instead of just once if the ports are directly connected to the first bridge).