Hello,

First of all I am quite new to Mikrotik products and software, so please allow some errors in the terms used.

A client of mine today has a DSL modem acting as router and 4 Apple Airport Express acting as Wifi access points.

I would like to add a RB750 between for DSL modem router and the 4 Airport Express with the sole goal of displaying a "welcome" page whenever a client connects to the Wifi.

I have setup a hotspot on the RB750 and it works well if I connect my computer to the RB. I am directed to the welcome page. I use a modified login page wich redirects the user to the login url with a given user/password (common for everyone) so the login is transparent.

Then I tried to add an Airport Express Wifi access point instead of my computer. The Airport Express is configured to act as bridge. Things seem to work as expected as my computer receives an IP address from the RouterBoard DHCP server.
When I browse to a webpage, I am correctly redirected to the hotspot, but then the hotspot page itself is redirected to the hotspot and an infinite loop starts.
If I observe from winbox, the Airport Express device is noted "allowed". My computer is not allowed by the hotspot.

Until now, I could not figure out what's wrong or what I must change to make it work.
So please, if you have already setup something like this, or have an idea about what to do, what to test, I would love to hear from you

Regards,

Ltr

I have had similar problems using airport express as a bridge. In my case the airport express was not 'passing' the MAC identifer. I ended up replacing the airport express.

Thank you for your answer.

In my case, the MAC is correctly passed, as I see the correct MAC listed in the hotspot clients (not allowed but listed).

Regards

I am going to have to agree with replacing the Apple Products.

I have tested hotspot and VLAN with
Engenius
Ubiquity
Ruckus

All have worked fine.

In all 3 cases I had VLAN on Ether2 with tags. Then connected the AP and tagged the SSID I wanted to be hotspot.