well figured out what the deal with not seeing the chain is. DONT PUT A SCRIPT IN VIA WINBOX. :) found the pico clone and entered it via cli script starts working except now it spits an error to the log script error: empty string value where some kind of specific value expected here is my current sc...

ahh thanks now this is how i have it setup forward chain [admin@MikroTik] system script> /ip firewall rule forward print Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 0 action=jump jump-target=accounting 1 ;;; limit access for unauthorized hotspot clients in-interface=ether2 action=jump jump-target=...

when i do I get ERROR: destination bad

yay i was trying mikrotik
thanks alot

How about an irc room to discuss mikrotik issues and scripting?

So let me see if I understand this at all or if im on the right track. first thing to do is add a chain /ip firewall add name=accounting then set a comment for it called userN atm i have 2 users so /ip firewall rule accounting add comment=user2 add passthrough action to the chain accounting /ip fire...

Here is a better representation of what im talking about.

http://nanderson.com/network.htm


thanks again for any comments or help.

can you expand a little more on this im attempting to set transfer limits so userx gets 1 GB transfer/month / week whatever. if they exceed it they get throttled to 64 K. This is my first run with mikrotik ect... so im still trying to figure out the firewall ect ...


Thanks

Wondering if its possible to use mikrotik as a base router with hotspot feature for user auth. Then have linksys wrt54gs do wds to distribute it. so looks something like this. internet ---- mikrotik ---- switch ..............................................|........|........|.........| ................

Ok sorry im still new to mikrotik. I see in the documentation default-forwarding (yes | no; default: yes) - to use data forwarding by default or not. If set to 'no', the registered clients will not be able to communicate with each other. so that will stop all clients from comunicating with eachother...

We are working on a possible setup for a sorority that wants a wireless setup. We want to be able to have users sign on for access (hotspot functionality) and dynamically be assigned a vlan so each user is on a seperate vlan to prevent file swapping and virus/worm spreads. Is this possible with mikr...