I have just started playing with the userman for the 1st time.
Its pretty cool. i must say i am impressed.
Just one issue i am having. When i try to buy more credit and it refers me to a httpS site.
And from what i have heard you have to have a special script or soem thing of the kind for it to work?
Can any one aid me in where to go.
And also annother issue i just thought of while reading all the thread names under userman is.
I am running it on a RB750 which does not have much HDD space. IF it gets full im pretty sure this will mess with my userman.
IS there not a program that i can install on one of my servers/pcs that will share x amount of hdd space to the mikrotik board and allow it to use it for proxy and userman.
The S means that it is running the secure version of HTTP, using SSL/TLS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
That’s fairly fundamental stuff and you might do well picking up a beginner’s network book, maybe some training material for the Network+ exam.
If you have a large user base that and you’ve left your radius session/error logging on default settings, then you would run into problems within a month where the sessions/failed authentications would max out your free space! I’ve actually had that with my friend’s RB750G (running ROS v4.5) that used the Userman to manage 5 PPTP VPN clients, which connected via a common Sector AP. Within a month and a half, the router had more than 200 000 log entries, which maxed out the disk space on the RB750G. Due to that, no clients were able to connect and I wasn’t able to delete the logs with a script either. The script used 100% cpu usage; never completed; and didn’t remove a single log entry. Eventually I had to uninstall a package on the router to get some free space, write down the 5 users’ details and wipe the Userman database completely.
Now I’ve set the router to log only ‘Authorization failure’ and ‘Authorisation ok’ events.
Your best solution would be to run Radius and Squid proxy servers on a Linux machine, in combination with the RB750 if you have many clients OR want decent caching of web content.