What I use to check and see if I've been taken over by the hotspot is my arp cache. Look at the MAC of the gateway (hotspot controller) and the AP.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Butch Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Ralph Fowler wrote: > > Is there a rule or something I can remove or something else I can change >> that will allow devices "inside" to talk to one another whilst still >> prohibiting outside access unless authenticated? >> > > Depending on what you are after and how things are configured, there are > multiple approaches to this. I'll assume that you have something like the > following: > > * Mikrotik Hotspot that is ethernet based > * External AP(s) that is(are) bridged > * Client devices that are just computers (i.e. NOT client bridge devices) > > If that is your configuration, then the best approach is to simply add the > APs to the hotspot's ip bindings and bypass hotspot for those devices. > Also, you will need to ensure that the computer doing the management is > logged into the hotspot BEFORE you try to manage the APs. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://www.wispa.org/ * WISPA Board Member * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > ******************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20081125/a6e22a01/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list Mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
