Hotspot fetures or limitations?

RouterOS General
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I’ve x86 router running by ROS 4.17 with 3 intrfaces

  1. WAN 10.10.10.10/30 (transport network to ISP)
  2. DMZ 11.11.11.11/27 (routed network from ISP with some external hosts running web and etc..)
  3. LAN 172.16.1.1/24 (local hosts placed here)

LAN interface also running Hotspot with Radius auth on local AD with no problems. LAN users can access DMZ without any NAT. Ip-binding feature is disabled on Hotspot & DHCP also disabled on ROS, local stations use wheir own adresses leased by MS Windows DHCP.

So grand question :slight_smile:
User point their IE to go to anyplace, then hi/she’ll see login page and fill their login/pass, after auth, we’ll see his/her activity in billing (for examp - UserManager or any other, that can use Radius). In my configuration example i don’t need to bill user’s traffic to/from DMZ and i’ve free access to some external networks running by my ISP. So, using winbox hotspot config, I can’t exclude some hosts/networks from “billing” after user authorisation and I see all their traffic in “billing”, even then they go to hotspot’s status page. And, as you can see, WallGarden and ip-binding is helpless in this case :frowning:

Can someone help?

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You cannot except any traffic from showing up in traffic counters.

3

I’ve problem with that. One user noticed that, he can get “huge downloads” by simply refreshing his hotspots’s status page :frowning:

4

There is no solution for that, other than using NetFlow/TrafficFlow and going to an entirely different billing solution based on that protocol.

5

That’s sad :frowning:

Thanks anyway.