I have a delima, I just upgraded a mikrotik router running 2.8.x to 2.9.8. I lost all of my mangle rules as expected and this is how I controlled authentication on the network.
I made a backup of the config prior to upgrading.
My question is whats the best way to do MAC authentication on an ethernet network? I was thinking about enabling a hotspot on the LAN interface of the Mikrotik router, but I’m unsure how to setup the users for Hotspot authentication. Do I just input a username and MAC Address? I want this to be seemless to the user, prior to this upgrade I mangled the authorized mac addresses and dst-natted any unauthorized MAC’s to a signup page. That way was combersome and left me with a enourmous list of users / macs. I’d like to use the hotspot if at all possible. I thought I might be able to authenticate through the DHCP server, but I didn’t see anyway to configure the DHCP server to only respond to specified MAC Addresses.
all suggestions appreciated
-bill