MikroTik

Please help. I need to keep monthly reports, accessible to customers of their traffic throughput. I have the IP accounting program running. I need to use the log downloader. But I keep getting an error when I try to download the log file.

Accounting is running, my webport is 8083. I have been messing with this for two months and I still can't get it.

You haven't given any details of the error you're getting.

Regards

Andrew

There aren't any details on the log downloader program. It just says error.

/ip accounting snapshot take

issue this command a coupla times and also set the log downloading to happen every minute if the number of sessions flowing through your MT is pretty high.

If you rely on this to make money, you owe it to yourself to use a RADIUS server. The following setup works well:


RADIUS for client auth. and accounting

RADIUS dumps data to a db (like MySQL)

make a simple webpage in, say, php which will retrieve the accounting data once the client has logged in. You can even add a "change your password" option and other goodies.


It mostly depends on how you are authorizing your clients now. Hotspot, PPPoE, VPN ? This should work well and afford you a lot of room to grow and add services.

Yes I agree with your conclusions about the Radius server. I have installed Freeradius but the configuration is beyond my expertise.