Hotspot static IP addresss

RouterOS General
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I must have missed something.

I am able to pass the address from radius to MT and MT shows the address bound to the mac. But the end user address never changes on the pc and can not surf. What could have i missed? Is there a doc somewhere that helps with running a DHCP pool and being able to assign a static to specified account names in radius?

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daiceman,

DHCP happpens before the login and cannot be updated at will.
If the MT is showing the addresss bound to the mac, then from the other side of the MT your host will appear to have that IP.
You may try releasing and renewing your ip after login, to get the correct ip locally on the host.

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You could set your clients to always get the same IP from DHCP by adding their MAC as a static lease in the DHCP server.

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So, would this be the best way to handle public IP’s on my access points for remote management and monitoring? I need to run DHCP and would like universal client, AND be able to have access from the greater internet for management and also for client servers that need remote access.

Is there anyone that I could chat with on IM during sun-up time in the states?

Thanks for all the help so far.

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Seems like everybody is talking different problems :slight_smile:

There are two possibilities of changing IP addresses of clients depending on their login name: one in version 2.8, and one in version 2.9

  1. Only in 2.8 (well, this method is also present in 2.6 and 2.7, but not in 2.9) there is a dhcp-pool login method which first allocates a temporary ip for each client so that they could log in. Next, depending on username, the clients gets his new address in a few seconds.

  2. in both 2.8 and 2.9 (but not in earlier versions), there is a Universal Client which is more or less integrated in HS setup. In other words, in 2.8 you should manually setup this, but in 2.9 you can not separate the Universal Client from HotSpot. The main idea of Universal Client is that IP address is changed on the router (something like masquerading), not on client. So the client keeps the previous address. Only in version 2.9 this trick can also change the address a client received depending on the username the client has entered.