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Freebies in SA (or How to download IP address lists to a Mikrotik)

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In the state of Australia I currently live in, there are 2 major ISP’s – Internode and Adam Internet.
Being a typical nerd and living with other typical nerds we of course have 2 ADSL connections, 1 to each of these providers which are shared out amongst the house.

Internet Cafe. Now where's my Mocha?

However each of these providers have what we call in Australia – “unmetered content” that is to say download traffic from these sources is not measured and removed from our download allowances (yes, we have limits on what we can download).

So anyway, I’ll make like a sharp stick and get to the point.

We wanted to make sure that free traffic from each ISP would always go via that ISP’s link to save us on downloads and each ISP offers a list of the free IP’s in a nice text format: Continue reading Freebies in SA (or How to download IP address lists to a Mikrotik) →

Mikrotik Hotspot Authentication for IPv6 dual-stacked clients

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In preparation for some IPv6 testing of our hotspot systems, I’ve come up with the following temporary authentication method for dual-stacked users.

Seeing as the login redirect goes via an IPv4 webserver, if enabled IPv6 traffic passes by the hotspot unhindered. This is my work on enabling the IPv6 side of things when a user logs in or out of the hotspot with a dual stacked client.

This has been implemented on my demo v4.10 router and tested with both Mac OS X 10.6 and Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Continue reading Mikrotik Hotspot Authentication for IPv6 dual-stacked clients →