General Information - MikroTik RouterOS v2.9 Reference Manual

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Active Host List
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Service Port
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Customizing HotSpot: Firewall Section
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Customizing HotSpot: HTTP Servlet Pages
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HotSpot How-to's
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General Information

Summary
The MikroTik HotSpot Gateway enables providing of public network access for clients using
wireless or wired network connections.
HotSpot Gateway features:
• authentication of clients using local client database, or RADIUS server
• accounting using local database, or RADIUS server
• Walled-garden system (accessing some web pages without authorization)
Quick Setup Guide
The most noticeable difference in user experience setting up HotSpot system in version 2.9 from the
previous RouterOS versions is that it has become in order of magnitude easier to set up a correctly
working HotSpot system.
Given a router with two interfaces: Local (where HotSpot clients are connected to) and Public,
which is connected to the Internet. To set up HotSpot on the Local interface:
1. first, a valid IP config is required on both interfaces. This can be done with /setup command.
In this example we will assume the configuration with DHCP server on the Local interface
2. valid DNS configuration must be set up in the /ip dns submenu
3. To put HotSpot on the Local interface, using the same IP address pool as DHCP server uses
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