Im running a small hotspot system on 2.9.51 system with hotspot and radius for it via with a separate radius server. Everything works fine.

However sometimes in the remote logs i'll see "limiting address per mac" what does it mean?

here is the exact log entry: (there will be several sometimes from different ips from my ip pool.)

Im running a small hotspot system on 2.9.51 system with hotspot and radius for it via with a separate radius server. Everything works fine.

However sometimes in the remote logs i'll see "limiting address per mac" what does it mean?

here is the exact log entry: (there will be several sometimes from different ips from my ip pool.)

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01-16-2009	11:48:34	Local7.Debug	192.168.b.bb	hotspot,debug Hotspot Main--: hotspot1: dynamic host 00:1C:B3:C1:58:8F/192.168.xx.11 added, ip 192.168.xx.11
01-16-2009	11:48:34	Local7.Debug	192.168.bb.bbb	hotspot,debug Hotspot Main--: hotspot1: dynamic host 192.168.xx.215 [b]removed: limiting addresses per mac[/b]

I guess your users are sharing their usr/pass between themselves. Not sure but, when a duplicate username/pass reaches the router at the same time when that user is online this happens.

A couple things can cause this. Hackers can cause this by trying to duplicate a logged-in user.

The usual way is using an AP between the hotspot and your clients. All clients show as the mac of the AP. The default setting is 2 addresses per mac. So 3 clients and someone is thrown off. If you want to continue to use the AP, then you can see and change this setting here:
/ip hotspot
print detail
set X addresses-per-mac=250

that mean just one mac can connect to you hotspot
you canajust it as hotspot setup on server menu

This is usually caused by using clients that are bridges. The customer has several pc's on a switch behind the client. Sometimes the customer may have their cpe plugged into a the private side of the customers linksys 4 port router. This was a big problem when I was using old Tranzeo clients who operated only as bridges, we would pre-auth the cpe based on its mac the something would be hooked in wrong or the client would use a switch instead of a router.

This is usually caused by using clients that are bridges. The customer has several pc's on a switch behind the client. Sometimes the customer may have their cpe plugged into a the private side of the customers linksys 4 port router. This was a big problem when I was using old Tranzeo clients who operated only as bridges, we would pre-auth the cpe based on its mac the something would be hooked in wrong or the client would use a switch instead of a router.

Is there any way of resolving this, other than added saying, "under hotspot, servers, changing to 250 addresses per mac"?

I am using a UBNT for a bridge to a seconday AP and all my clients were getting kicked off due to the above restrictions being set to 3 addresses per mac.

Thanks for your help.