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Guscht
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idle-timeout - used addresses

Sun May 30, 2021 3:11 pm

Hi,

we have set an Idle-Timeout of 5 minutes under Hotspot->Server. Unauthenticated Hosts will be correctly removed from "Hosts-List" after that amount of time.

MIkrotik states:
idle-timeout (time / none; default: 5m) : period of inactivity for unauthorized clients. When there is no traffic from this client (literally client computer should be switched off), once the timeout is reached, user is dropped from the HotSpot host list, its used address becomes available

But thats not the fact! The DHCP-Lease will not get purged and the address is still bound under IP->Pool->Used Addresses.
Does anyone know, is this a bug or what does Mikrotik mean by "its used address becomes available". Which "address" do they refer to? Obviously not the DHCP-Lease-IP...
 
Guscht
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Re: idle-timeout - used addresses

Mon May 31, 2021 5:46 pm

I found out: This "...its used address becomes available" refers to IP -> Pool -> Owner "hotspot" only - not DHCP-owner!

In other words, if the "Address" and "to Address" (under Hotspot -> Hosts) are not the same, only the hotspot-owned address (the "to Address") is freed. Not the DHCP-owned ("Address").

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