I am using the RouterOS 2.9.38 integrated User Manager to authenticate users via hotspot. Everything work very well.
However, when a user logs out, userman keeps counting down the time remaining on the user account.
For instance, if I sell a user account with 4hours prepaid time and 1 week uptime limit, the user then login successfully and logout after 2h25m41s effectively leaving 1h34m19s on the account. When the same user tried to login a day later, he couldn’t because there was no time left on the account!
The logs from the userman shows a “prepaid” of 4h, “used” of 2h25m41s and a “left” of 0.
Created one week credit and created one user with uptime-limit=2h.
Logged for one minute, then logoff, after five minutes logged again it showed me that I have left 1:59.
So everything is working ok.
Created one week credit and created one user with uptime-limit=2h.
Logged for one minute, then logoff, after five minutes login… credit is counting down…and session is allways up
logged in an out with hotspot login web page…
so…what do you think I made wrong ?
What we want do is the following… last year we builded some big camping-places with many sparclan wds ap´s and handlink subscriber gateways… because of big problems with the handlink gateways we want to change to mikrotik. at the moment we test the hotspot solution and it runs very nice so that we will change handlink to mikrotik. we will use hotspot because of the user manager limitation…thats ok. so now i have a problem with one place. they have an internet cafe with 5 terminals. what i want to do is to handle the internet cafe with user manager and the rest of the place with hotspot… is this possible ?
no, i don´t think that it is a mikrotik software problem…and i asked a question..i don´t want to talk to mikrotik support for getting an answer for a problem that not exists… but what do you think i made wrong… we talk about 15 hotspots and round about 120 acces points
Regarding first issue you need to contact support, if the problem exists. Make sure that router is running latest version, include support output file from the router and some screenshots, when you have the problem.
what i want to do is to handle the internet cafe with user manager and the rest of the place with hotspot… is this possible ?
HotSpot is AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting) system that is used on router to provide more higher level of the security to the local network (user requires authorization for accessing public resouresces and other valuables features).
You can run HotSpot on the local interface per one brodcast domain.
User Manager is RADIUS based management system, that is integrated to the RouterOS package. User Manager allows to manage HotSpot, DHPC, PPP, wireless clients.
HotSpot might use RADIUS server or User Manager to maintain clients or HotSpot can manage clients by itself.
Are you running the latest version? This thread is from 2007 and regards version 2.9x. It’s nearly 2011 and the current version is 4.13, with 5.x around the corner.
I have same problem for my clients tickets… i am using v4.16 at the moment, but i will upgrade to 4.17 maybe the problem could be solve… if not, then mikrotik guys should do something about it quick.
mikrotik support may be right about (Created one week credit and created one user with uptime-limit=2h). We will try it and get back to the forum with update on this issue…
I am sure it will work well if we make it as they said above.
hello mikrotik support team,
As you can see we have similar problems on the above issue, when is this going to be solved so that we can still make use of user manager as it has proved to be the best amongst all.
please we need solution/suggestions as soon as possible before life is lost on this issue.
