Hotspot trial user

RouterOS General
1

Hi all,

Few days ago I setup a hotspot user with trial enable. Each mac address is allowed to use 30 minutes a month.
Therefor, the setup we made from winbox is :
IP - HotSpot - Server Profile - default - Login :

  • Trial Uptime Limit : 00:30:00
  • Trial Uptime Reset : 30d 00:00:00

The setup seems to be ok until I found one problem :
All mac address of trial users disappear each time the router booted.

The other setting implied is NTP Client.

Is that normal ?
if I put 00:00:00 next to Trial Uptime Reset, is that mean that the trial user never be reset ?

Paul

2

Yes, it is working as you’ve described. There is nothing you can do about trial uptime reset.

3

this afternoon I put 00:00:00 next to Trial Uptime Reset and the consequence is none of trial mac addresses recorded under User tab.

Now, I put 999999d 00:00:00 next to Trial Uptime Reset and it change automaticcaly to 37837d 17:06:08
is that a maximum value that can be entered ?

Paul

4

It’s really annoying us when all trial users mac addresses missing for everytime RB reboot.

is possible to delay (let say 5 minutes) this update process of trial users mac addresses after reboot ?

because, RB always set to Jan/01/2002 when it booted up and than need about 2 minutes for ntp client to update the system clock.

Paul

5

Good day guys,

Can I change the trial user name? Because for customers, it`s little difficult to show MAC of PC and type it correct (T-XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX).

6

$(mac) in HTML hosted on the router is a variable that will be replaced by the user’s MAC address dynamically. You can use that to either prefill text fields in forms, or you can even set their type to hidden and never show them to the user and just require a button be clicked.

<form action="/login" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="$(mac)">
<input type="submit" value="Log in">
</form>