Ok so I’m MT challenged. I need some help or my new year will be crummy.
I have a rb532 and it’s connected to a broadband connection.
I can get into the router remotely just fine from off site.
The board has an Sr2. I want to come in on the LAN port (let’s say it’s got a public IP of 80.80.80.49 just for kicks. I can do that fine. But I want to come in on that LAN port and see what a user would see if they connected via the hotspot that has a 10.10.50.0/24 range. I want to be able to experience the login screen, the transaction screens, etc. from the NOC several states away.
I tried doing a PPTP link taking an extra Public IP at 80.80.80.52 and routing it to 10.10.50.200, but it won’t connect. I tried doing http://80.80.80.52 hoping I would see the login screen.
Soooooo, what do I need to change? Do I need firewall rules for this also?
Thanks!!!
As far as I understand, you want to use another HotSpot some hopes away,
e.g. router—n of hops— HotSpot router.
If they are both MikroTik routers, EoIP tunnel should help in this case.
EoIP creates Ethernet tunnel over IP, it will be the same as router clients connected to the same switch.
Another method create HotSpot server on the router client is connected to.
Use cenralized RADIUS server, that will maintain the same user database for auhtorization/accounting for the multiple routers.
Actually I want to get at the hotspot from my laptop on my network here at the NOC, where there is no MT router. We have Cisco routers here.
What I want to do is put in the http://Ipaddress of the PPtP tunnel and get to see exactly what the roaming user would see if they were to approach the hotspot locally.
This will allow me to program all the hotspot screens and credit card registration, etc without going out to the site and working with the local hotspot and I would see every screen exactly the same as a local user.
I think I may have confused people with the last post. We have Cisco routers on our broadband connection here, but all the POPs have MT routers. I want to VPN into the MT routers from the NOC here and view the hotspot connection at any POP as though I was a hotspot user.
Hi, I know this post is quite a bit old, but I am trying to achieve something just like the original poster had intended.
I would like to VPN into the hotspot using PPTP or l2tp or XXXX and then access things just like a Customer would from the hotspot. Connect->Greeted with Captive Portal/Walled Garden->Sign-up, Pay → authentication.
I have a PPTP VPN up and functional. I can connect to it. I get IP’s assigned to me from within the hotspot pool.
The Walled Garden works from the location using the Wireless connection.
Using the Internet unrestricted via the VPN is works fine which shows the Walled Garden/Firewall has not effect for the VPN user.
I’m looking for the solution of it 
the problem i think is we define a hotspot on a specific interface. but vpn is another interface.
how can VPN into view hotspot remotely?