Thanks Butch I'll give the setup a shot and find a working solution now that I know that it is technically feasible
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Butch Evans Sent: 09 November 2010 02:13 AM To: Mikrotik discussions Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Transparent usermanager On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 22:35 +0200, james wrote: > IP accounting sounds good but the manager wants to "log in" and view each > employees usage. Hence why I need the usermanager. There are several ways to do this, but based on what you say below, this looks like the best/easiest approach. > How would I set up the hotspot so that the client does not need to > "authenticate" themselves. Ie they must not know about the transparent > traffic accounting. Does it actually have to be network transparent? > Is the below correct to achieve the above: > 1) Create transparent bridge Hotspot will not work this way. If you are trying to make the system 100% transparent, you will need to find another way. If it doesn't have to be completely transparent, then hotspot will work, but won't need a bridge. > 2) setup hotspot on the bridge interface with the server profile>login> to > login by MAC only > 3) add these MAC addresses as users in Usermanager. Assuming that adding a hotspot is acceptable, then this will work so that the end users don't actually have to log in. It will be "transparent" in that respect only. You will need to configure the hotspot to use radius and ensure that you have enough HDD space on the device running the UM to maintain the logs for the accounting records. Other than those things, this will likely do what you need. -- ******************************************************************** * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * * http://store.wispgear.net/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
