How can I bind users to specific hotspot interface?

RouterOS The User Manager
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Hi,

I am running two hotspot interfaces (different subnets with different rate limitations) on a RB1000 and I want to use a single user manager (same box, localhost) for authentication. Is it possible to create a user and only allow it to login on a certain interface?

Thanks in advance, Stefan.

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Has no one come across this problem or have I not explained it very well?

Thanks, Stefan.

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I’m not absolutely certain, but i suppose if you have the hotspot interaces assigned different ip pools, you can specify the specific pool (hotspot server surrogate!) in userman.

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You can do what you want in a number of ways, one of such is:
*create 2 new user profiles in /ip hotspot user profile, i.e one for each interface
*specify the correct ip address pool for each of the profiles created, i.e the ip pool for the interface that owns the profile
*then when you are creating users in the user-manager be sure to specify the correct “profile” meant for the user as “group” in the user manager. note that the name of profile(group) is case sensitive.

when this is done, whenever a user attempts login through the wrong interface he will not have network access.

THE TRICK: the user actually gets logged in but his IP address is translated or mapped to an IP address that is not valid for the interface that he is connected to. this translation will only be correct when he is logging in from the correct interface approved for him.

cheers. hope this helps you.