Hotspot issues and functions.
Hi there,
I've tried looking for the following answers, but can't find what I'm looking for. I'm hoping someone can help me out with the following points.
I'd just like to give you an advanced thank you, for helping me out and other readers/users of this information.
1) If the internet is down whilst a user is trying to connect to the hotspot, no matter what OS they are running (OSX/XP/7) it seems they don't get the full settings needed to connect once the internet is back up.
From what I can see, they get their IP, GW, DNS addresses, but (on windows systems) the message "limited conductivity" appears on their connection. Normally, in this situation within a few minutes of the internet connection being up again the OS would detect this and allow the to get to the signup page.
In my hotspot setup, this actually isn't happening, the OS is not trying to correct the issue - and I've tried this with many computers.
So as a work around, what would be the best way to force a re-sync to the hotspot, once the internet comes back online? I'm guessing a netwatch script, which removes all DHCP clients or disables the ports and re-enables them?
Either way, please could someone help me with the coding used to do that.
2) My hotspot gateway ip is 10.5.50.1 - so therefore the signup page should be: 10.5.50.1/user/signup. But if I try and goto that page (locally) If a user hasn't created an account/signed in they get returned with a 404 error. If I put my external IP address in place of the internal one and add that address to the walled garden, they can access the signup that way.
Could someone tell me why trying to access the signup page locally doesn't work. This is also true for the user management (/user). The only page that works locally is /userman.
3) How could I go about writing a script/html code that I could display on the login page that would tell the users if there internet was up or down? Basically I was thinking about using a netwatch function but reports taken out as html results.
4) Am I correct in saying that any client not logged into the hotspot should be faced with a login page - whether their browser is pointing to http://www.mikrotik.com or http://www.mikrotik.com/aboutus.php - because I've noticed in some cases if a client is trying to connect to a page which isn't at the base URL, then their browser returns a 400 error.
5) Is it possible to customise the page which displays 404 error on the router?
6) Say the WAN ip address is 85.45.65.25 - if I type that address in any browser I'm faced with the default Mikrotik router page telling me how to connect - Given that this can be dangerous, I would really like to remove this page or ideally have all requests default to the hotspot page. How can this be done?
7) Following on from another post: - http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=42040
I've got my hotspot using Address: 10.5.50.1/24 on a bridged 1 interface (ports 2-5), but I'm trying to create a secondary network for my AP's; but I can't seem to get it to work correctly -to protect customers from trying to blast/scan for the AP's.
The secondary network will be based on the range 10.10.10.1/24.Based on this how can is ensure that the network APs all get address in the range 10.10.10.1/24, but any clients connected to the APs get an address of 10.5.50.1/24 and have to log in to gain access.
The idea behind this is just to create a layer of protection, separating the equipment from the clients.
Information:
RB450G level 5 licence - v4.9
Local hotspot/radius/usermanager-test v4.9
Dymanic IP address being used for ISP connection.
AP's to be used Engenius 3660 & 9950 (http://www.engeniustech.com/datacom/pro ... spx?id=244)