Hello, I am trying to monitor a group of hosts on a hotspot network. I have created netwatch rules successfully to monitor the hosts. such as this: 0 ;;; workstation 1 192.168.120.1 5m 1m up I am trying to figure out how to create a single up_action and a single down_action script that will run if a...

Awesome, this works! I guess the part of this that i dont understand is why this traffic (icmp originated by the Mtik) isnt in the OUTBOUND filter chain? if anyone has a better description of packet flow and the chains i listed previously it would be very helpful to me. thank you very much for helpi...

I fixed this but dont understand how this works. I added: /ip firewall filter add chain=pre-hs-input protocol=icmp action=accept comment="allow ICMP for unauthorized users" disabled=no what i dont understand is: 1. without the rule listed above i can ping the machines on the hotspot networ...

Hello, I am trying to monitor a bunch of PC's that guests use (think of a cyber cafe with a bunch of computers). I can ping these pc's when users are not using them, but then when users authenticate to Hotspot, the Hotspot server assigns the machines a different IP address and I can no longer ping t...

Configuring DSTNAT (inbound static NAT from a public IP address) to a server located on a network where Hotspot is configured. By: Don Van Oort - R & D Industries, Inc. http://www.rdi1.com Seems like an obvious thing to me to want to NAT traffic inbound to a network where Hotspot is bound to ad...

If anyone could please help I would really appreciate it!

thanks.

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mikrotik newbie question - please help.. I have basic question on how to configure dstnat to a server located in hotspot network. config is: ether1: public network, say: 1.2.3.4/24 w/gateway of 1.2.3.254 ether2: hotspot network, say 192.168.1.254/24 I desire to place a server at 192.168.1.10 and nat...

Bushy. thank you for your reply. I am not confident that DNS based content filtering is effective, and therefore we would prefer to implement a filtering appliance. I am also missing some glaring huge parts of how this work, specifically: 1. I am not certain how the code you submitted would match th...

We are trying to configure Mikrotik to allow us to create two user groups, Group-A with no content (porn) filtering, and Group-B with content filtering. We are trying to configure Hotspot so that when people sign up for Internet access, they can select if they want filtered (like if they have kids) ...