Thank you Butch. I am going to sit down and look at all this as soon as I can. I am also going to probably be contacting you regarding some professional services as well.
Ralph -----Original Message----- From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com [mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 11:33 PM To: Mikrotik discussions Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Hotspot portals On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 11:06 -0400, Ralph wrote: > I looked at it again. > The problem I see is that there I need multiple gateways (groups of access > points) on the same MT box, each one using a different portal. This part is quite simple. You can run a unique portal on as many interfaces as you like (1 hotspot per interface). > Visualize > the MT box being at the tower site, with multiple PtP links going to 2 > campgrounds, each one owned differently and having to have its own > statistics within WO and its own commission arrangement to the owner. So bring the backhauls into the MT on different ports or (if you prefer) different vlans and create a unique portal per interface or vlan (for vlan, you have to create a bridge, include the vlan only and run the hotspot on the bridge). > 1. Build 2 unique hotspots on the MT Box, each using a different Ethernet > port for the customers and a different Public IP for the Internet side. > 2. Set up 2 Gateways in WO, each pointing to one of the 2 public IPs. > > Now what I can't figure out is whether I need to do something to the default > routes in MT to make the traffic from each gateway find its proper route > out. Sort of like having 2 different default gateways. This part is easy, as well. http://blog.butchevans.com/2008/09/mikrotik-policy-routing-implementation-ex ample/ will get you started. > Maybe the answer is staring me right in the face, but I don't see it! It was...see the footer of every message to this list. -- ******************************************************************** * 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 _______________________________________________ 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
