Mikrotik hotspot question

[medicnick83]

Hi all,

Where I work, we have a mikrotik hotspot setup - you connect to the wireless and it asks for a username and password, you enter it in and bam, you connected.

The problem is, if you leave the building, and come back, you have to re-enter the information in.

I'm the first to admit that I don't know mikrotik so well, but can anyone guide me on how to fix this.
I'd really like to find a way to stop this.

Maybe entering the details once every 24 hours is fine, but what alternatives are available?

This is driving me and others nuts.

 

[Soul Assassin]

You have to enable the MAC cookie feature, it remembers the details for 12 or 14 days by default.

 

[medicnick83]

You have to enable the MAC cookie feature, it remembers the details for 12 or 14 days by default.

How do I do that?

Soul, I'm on the discord eh.

 

[Soul Assassin]

How do I do that?

Soul, I'm on the discord eh.

MAC Cookie

login-by=mac-cookie, add-mac-cookie=yes set in user profile

You enable MAC Cookie under the hotspot server profile and then under user profiles you enable Add MAC Cookie.

 

[Kloofvreter]

You have to enable the MAC cookie feature, it remembers the details for 12 or 14 days by default.

Yeah, can be set to expire in a certain amount of time. It can also be configured to automatically allow certain devices to connect without authentication I think. Haven't done this in a while.

 

[Soul Assassin]

Added visual aids.