I took on a new tower with alot of new customers already hooked up to it. The guy who I took it over from gave me the MACs of all the Wireless CPEs (mostly senao nl2611). I have a system setup that lets everyone who dhcps in check the mac to a radius server and then it sends back bandwidth queue attributes and ip and all that jazz. however, since i have none of the actual clients MACs (just the cpe) there is no way this will work. So what I have had to do is run an open network for now, and it is not acceptable I must fix this. Any ideas on how to get the MACs of all the clients?
If you can login to the senao bridge web config there is a page which displays the macs connected to the 2611cb3+ units. Might take some time though!
ya, thats the only idea i have too, arggggg.
Either that or use the mac cloning feature in Senao. then you could use the MT registration list to do it? Still very boring though?
OR… Cut off all customers and wait for them to phone you .. Ha Ha.
lol, ya, i was seriously contemplating doing that, but figured i didnt want to spend 2 hours per, totalling dozens of hours, to walk them through figuring out what their mac is.
The trials and tribulations of the wlan opperator.
What are the IP’s of the CB3’s ???
If you know what range you can NMAP the IP’s and then grab the arp tables off the AP.
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I have some questions for you on your setup.
Thanks!
How about you setup the wireless ACL to use the RADIUS server, enter all the CPE mac’s in the RADIUS server with the queue attributes and authenticate that way?
The only problem is DHCP is still looking for the client MAC before it hands out an IP address..
Is this tower you acquired contiguious with your current network? Could you create a new subnet for that segment and run a different DHCP server until you could sort it out?
it is seperate, my network is entirely routed, so it is on its own(private) /24. I tried giving things bandwidth queus by wireless mac authenticate, but nothing happened?
So the AP has NAT on it then? The customers are using 192.xxxxxxx and then going to another interface that has a routeable public internet address.
I think the hotspot work because of that. Now if you had both interfaces non routeable then that would work.
You have to take out the NAT on the AP.
If I understand you right.
no my network looks like:
[client]—[cpe])))))[ap]----[router]-----[bridge])))))[bridge]-----[router]----[internet]
although for any given cpe it goes through several more:
[router]-----[bridge])))))[bridge]-----[router]
parts until it get to the final router on the internet. each router has public and private ip address on it, and customers get privates by default, and have to pay more for a public(since i have limited number of them).
does that make more sense?