Hotspot problem - 2 MTiks

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I have a mikrotik router as a router/fwall for my network and recently i purchaced another one.

The achitecture of the network is like this:

Internet
|
Mikrotik router/fwall
|
switch - mtik hotspot
|
wired workstations

The idea was to implement hotspot for mobile users which are passing through company every day.

But somehow, whenever I set up mtik hotspot a main router is sharing the info with the hotspot and ppl on wired workstations are forced to log on via browser in similar manner as mobile users.

I tried with switching off all interfaces in /ip neighborhood discovery on both mikrotiks, i even checked if routing protocols (ospf,bgp, rip etc) are on (they are all disabled btw), and nothing helps.

What is the problem? How devices share informations and how can i prevent that?

edit. I did it with older 2.8.* versions some time ago anyway without any problems :slight_smile:

2

which interface did your set your hotspot server. set it at mtik hotspot wlan .this could be your problem.

3

Tnx for reply dawam,

the hotspot is set on the wlan interface, I double checked that.

Anyway I just realized that this problem can be solved by adding:

/ip hotspot ip-bindings add address=192.168.0.0/24 type=bypass

(wired workstations and servers are in 192.168.0.0/24 C class)

This can be the solution but personally I dont feel like this should be done using bypassing.

Any other ideas?

edit. Anyway the WLAN iface has 10.0.0.1/24 address, and the wireless clients should be able to access only the internet, without knowing anything about LAN.

4

You shouldn’t need to bypass unless hotspot is define on the interface.

Where is dhcp server 192.168.0.0/24 define. Check if hotspot is also define .
Check bridge?

5

I’m aware of that but still I cannot understand why the main MTIK is sending traffic first to hotspot for authorization?
I even checked all firewall rules on the main mtik (even searched for dynamic rules) but I didnt find anything.

Where is dhcp server 192.168.0.0/24 define. Check if hotspot is also define .
Check bridge?

All hosts in 192.168.0.0/24 network have static IP so there is on DHCP server there. A dhcp scope for wireless clients are not yet defined cause this problems occurs :slight_smile: I dont want to implement bridging at all, I just want to let wireless clients a posibility of using company internet connection.

cheers