Hotspot problem with Apple Mac

RouterOS General
1

I had a customer claiming that he couldn’t get his Mac working with the hotspot. I suspect that the problem was something that the customer was doing. Can anyone discern from the attached log file what was going wrong?

Regards

Andrew

dec/11 19:11:40 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 assigned 10.5.50.213 to
00:0A:95:88:87:D4
dec/11 19:11:42 hotspot,debug hotspot1: new host detected
00:0A:95:88:87:D4/10.5.50.213 by UDP :53264 → 10.5.50.1:53
dec/11 19:11:42 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 00:0A:95:88:87:D4/10.5.50.213 added, ip 10.5.50.213
dec/11 19:11:57 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 deassigned 10.5.50.213 from
00:0A:95:88:87:D4
dec/11 19:11:57 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 10.5.50.213 changed type to dynamic (remove after 5s)
dec/11 19:11:58 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 assigned 10.5.50.213 to
00:0A:95:88:87:D4
dec/11 19:11:58 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dynamic host 10.5.50.213 changed type to dhcp (got back lease)
dec/11 19:25:48 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 10.5.50.213 removed: idle timeout
dec/11 19:31:27 hotspot,debug hotspot1: new host detected
00:0A:95:88:87:D4/10.5.50.213 by UDP :53407 → 10.5.50.1:53
dec/11 19:31:27 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 00:0A:95:88:87:D4/10.5.50.213 added, ip 10.5.50.213
dec/11 19:35:36 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 deassigned 10.5.50.213 from
00:0A:95:88:87:D4
dec/11 19:35:36 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 10.5.50.213 changed type to dynamic (remove after 5s)
dec/11 19:35:38 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 assigned 10.5.50.213 to
00:0A:95:88:87:D4
dec/11 19:35:38 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dynamic host 10.5.50.213 changed type to dhcp (got back lease)
dec/11 19:41:51 hotspot,debug hotspot1: dhcp host 10.5.50.213 removed: idle timeout
dec/11 20:35:38 dhcp,info,debug dhcp1 deassigned 10.5.50.213 from
00:0A:95:88:87:D4

2

Could be one of those with the titanium case. Look pretty but severely degrades the built in wireless! :lol:

3

Looks like maybe a builtin firewall is blocking part of the DHCP handshake.

4

This is ethernet so no problems with Faraday Cages :smiley:

Firewall is a possibility. Any other thoughts, comments?

Regards

Andrew

5

Maybe, but this is usually represented by a ‘Offered’ with no ‘Assigned’ in the dhcp logs.

What’s the DHCP Server config on the hotspot?

I’d be interested to see what the ARP table is doing as well.