Is UM limited to 10 users with MT license lev.4 and one should buy L6 to have UM fully functional?
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pacman: 340 clients with static address! wow, I guess I have plenty of time to decide my move!
simonkizi: Thanks a lot for your support! I was afraid to be bothering everyone in this community, and then you encouraged me to post… well, that’s very kind of you!
I’m shaping bandwidth at the client’s side (remember I have RB112), so my central equipment doesn’t have to worry about it.
As far as I learned, your suggestion of using PPPoE really makes sense. Thanks again!
eugenevdm: MT User Manager + PPPoE, that’s the way to go!
uldis: I’m still using NO encryption at all, as nobody else is using MT round here yet. But when I use it, I’ll follow your tip
titius: I’m told PPPoE is as easy as HotSpot, and lighter, so I think I’ll use PPPoE (remember I manage everything from RB532 on top of tower).
ARP is the way to go, thou it demands quite a job to keep everything registered!
piri: thanks for the offer! I guess I’ll try MT User Manager first. I visited your web, it’s nicely done, thou you could improve the spelling!
Thank you all guys!
I’m really learning. I hope some day I’ll be able to contribute to this community as much as you’ve done!
Don’t worry about WEP or WPA encryption. You can encrypt the data with PPPoE Encryption that is far better than the prior two and allows you to save data processing on your wireless cards.
Remember when you setup your AP as a PPPoE Server on the tower, don’t assign any IP to it. So even if someone connects, he cannot go further than the wireless link. Well yes, he may be able to link two radios together, and communicate for his private use… Correction, remove default forwarding. No more direct wireless connection! So all that an intruder would enjoy is linking to a tower without IP communication. Only if the client or intruder authenticates would he be able to access the IP Network.
The IP of your PPPoE server will be setup in your PPPoE default profile, or whichever profile you assign to your PPPoE server. You can also specify the speed of your clients’ connections in the profile.
I guess following the example in RouterOS’s manual on PPPoE will work, straight as it is.
Well, that wasn’t too hard, no?
I’m now planning how to migrate from my actual bridged WDS to this PPPoE configuration the quickest way, so none of my customers even notice…
I’ll have to make changes sometime around 4 AM or so, the hard life of the ISP! 