Hi there
I’d like to post an issue that- i think -.. a lot of mikrotik users experience
i have an RB1200 used as a hotspot gateway in a large lan
Subnet/22
DhCP IP addresses 10.0.0.2-10.0.2.254
when mikrotik is on
It’s to hard to communicate between a pc and another (or a ubnt device with an ip on the same range) on the same lan (http or sharing) even when the addresses are (for example) (10.0.0.5-10.0.0.10)
sometimes the connection works , some times it freezes
the same with pinging .
when mikrotik is off
I’m able to communicate with all pcs and devices on the lan with no single disconnection (untill devices loose their DHCP lease)
i tried to use the filter rule that allows all connections through the local interface to be passed … no news
how can i get my inter-network connectivity stable in the presence of mikrotik hotspot+DHCP
thanks
A network diagram would help and it would help to know what traffic levels you are seeing on the RB1200 interfaces when it is on.
seems like you set ‘address-pool’ for Hotspot - set it to ‘none’
with ip pool set, Hotspot uses ARP poisoning technique to serve clients with wrong network settings
Thanks .. helped a little although i still got some inaccessible devices ..
How about something like this:
/ip hotspot walled-garden ip
add action=accept disabled=no dst-address=10.0.0.0/22 server='your-hotspot-server-HERE' src-address=10.0.0.0/22
Or if you want this to apply to all of your hotspot servers (incase your running more than one).
/ip hotspot walled-garden ip
add action=accept disabled=no dst-address=10.0.0.0/22 src-address=10.0.0.0/22
Maybe if you separate the hotspot on another interface using VLAN, it should stop messing with your other devices. But I can be wrong about this!!!