Do you have any firewall rules limiting the number of connections from ip addresses ?
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Ralph" <r...@brightlan.net> Reply-To: Mikrotik discussions <mikrotik@mail.butchevans.com> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:39:04 -0400 >Hi Josh- > >1. About once a year, some of the hotspot radios behind this router begin >doing weird things- like giving users MT IP addresses but not allowing them >to see the captive portal, or maybe not allowing them to the Internet. The >radios are a Tropos mesh system and it is properly meshed and working >correctly. It is like the hotspot is blocking them. As a matter of fact, >if I put a bypass rule in the hotspot for the user's IP address he gets to >the Internet just fine. So it really appears like a hotspot problem and not >a basic problem. Most of the time when this happens, we go spend half a >day pulling our hair out and then run out of time and rebuild the router >(default and start over). Today my guys had to leave after 5 hours and I am >going to have to do this remotely. BTW- it is running 4.6 as of today. It >was on 4.3 before but was doing the same thing. > >2. I am not familiar with that setting. I even searched the web for >Mikrotik +"on default". Can you fill me in? > >I stared and compared all the firewall rules between this system and one >that works and can see no difference. >I'd love to just have Butch or someone take a quick look and see if they see >an obvious problem, but it is late on Friday now. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com >[mailto:mikrotik-boun...@mail.butchevans.com] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman >Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 6:12 PM >To: Mikrotik discussions >Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Didn't mean to hijack thread > >1) Why do you need to blow it away? > >2) You could change the "on default" config. > >On 4/23/10, Ralph <r...@brightlan.net> wrote: >> Sorry- I replied to save typing the address and forgot to change the >> subject. >> >> I have a PC running MT 4.6 that I want to "blow away". >> It is 100 miles away. >> Normally when I do this, I browse to it on the web, do the reset, and it >> keeps the WAN info so I can get back in to re-do the rest of the >> parameters. >> >> However this one has PPPoE instead of a straight Ethernet LAN connection. >> >> Does anyone know if the PPPoE credentials are retained like the rest of >the >> WAN data when you do this? >> >> Thanks >> >> Ralph >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > >-- >Josh Luthman >Office: 937-552-2340 >Direct: 937-552-2343 >1100 Wayne St >Suite 1337 >Troy, OH 45373 > >"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to >continue that counts." >--- Winston Churchill >_______________________________________________ >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 > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at avolve.net _______________________________________________ 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
