Help with Hotspot Setup
Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:46 am
Hi There,
I'm looking for some help/advice about setting up a hotspot on Mikrotik hardware. I'm not looking for anyone to hold my hand and take me through this step-by-step, but just for some basic pointers. I'm eager and willing to learn everything myself.
I'm running my current hotspots on DD-WRT firmware using chillispot for authentication with a VPS hosted MySQL/Radius server. I've seen the light and now want to migrate all my hotspots over to Mikrotik. I've just purchased a Routerboard RB800 to play around with. I will make the RB800 the standard for each hotspot. It looks like an excellent piece of kit!
My network setup is very basic. I have one gateway router and several wireless access points in bridge mode. The gateway router (currently dd-wrt based) runs PPPoE (for ADSL Connection - modem in bridge mode), DynDNS, Chillispot, Firewall, QoS, Port Forwarding.
I guess the first question is where do I start with the RB800?
All the best,
Cinders.
I'm looking for some help/advice about setting up a hotspot on Mikrotik hardware. I'm not looking for anyone to hold my hand and take me through this step-by-step, but just for some basic pointers. I'm eager and willing to learn everything myself.
I'm running my current hotspots on DD-WRT firmware using chillispot for authentication with a VPS hosted MySQL/Radius server. I've seen the light and now want to migrate all my hotspots over to Mikrotik. I've just purchased a Routerboard RB800 to play around with. I will make the RB800 the standard for each hotspot. It looks like an excellent piece of kit!
My network setup is very basic. I have one gateway router and several wireless access points in bridge mode. The gateway router (currently dd-wrt based) runs PPPoE (for ADSL Connection - modem in bridge mode), DynDNS, Chillispot, Firewall, QoS, Port Forwarding.
I guess the first question is where do I start with the RB800?
All the best,
Cinders.