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Automatic bypass of hotspot devices based on MAC Address

Recently I was doing some work for a hotel that supplies a ‘Smart TV’ device with Netflix and other functions in every room. These rooms are in turn all connected to a hotspot network and the TV’s all needed to be given internet access.

As this was (as sometimes occurs) an unexpected addition to the known requirements of the installation, it fell to me to come up with a way to add these – preferably without having to have someone walk around manually collect details for 300+ TV’s.

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Check utilisation of RouterOS IP Pools

I was looking for a way to do a quick summary of the utilisation of my DHCP/PPP pools and stumbled across a helpful little script.

This was originally found on the MikroTik forums and posted back in 2010 written by dssmiktik, and surprisingly enough it works perfectly on even v6.0 with no changes required.

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