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Illustrazione per Hotspot e PPPoE MikroTik: il nome utente in ogni riga di log
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Howto · Hotspot

Hotspot and PPPoE MikroTik: the username in every log line

Hotspot connection logs contain IP addresses, not people: to find out who was behind an address, you must cross-reference it with the logins. Using a login and logout script, you can create a log rule for each connected user, with the username in the log-prefix: every log line already contains the name. This works with the hotspot (on-login / on-logout of the user profile) and with PPPoE (on-up / on-down of the PPP profile).

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Illustrazione per Hotspot MikroTik: come registrare il traffico degli utentiDojo
Howto · Hotspot

MikroTik Hotspot: How to Log User Traffic

In a hotspot, users access the internet through a single public IP address: to determine who did what, you need a connection log. With RouterOS 7, this is generated using a firewall rule with action=log applied only to new connections, and sent to an external syslog server, because the router's memory is not an archive. Alternatively, or in addition, you can use Traffic Flow (IPFIX/NetFlow) towards a collector.