DHCP Passthrough

[Mactrekr]

I'm having trouble getting firstspot to allow our DHCP server in our router to assign IP addresses. I disable DHCP server in FirstSpot and then nothing can get an IP assignment. We are using a Mikrotik router as our DHCP assignment.

Any help would be appreciated. Also is Firstspot capable of Load Balancing Bandwidth? If so, how do you set it up or is it automatic.

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[alan]

1) Sorry, but FirstSpot does not forward the DHCP request to the Public's side DHCP server. Either you need to setup another DHCP server in the Hotspot segment itself, or you need to use FirstSpot DHCP server.

2) Regarding load balancing for the Internet connection, please check out http://www.patronsoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=473 for a similar discussion.

3) To start FirstSpot automatically during bootup (your question in email), please check out point 5 of "Other issues" within readme.rtf.
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[hongchuanz87]

Firstly, you will need to ensure that your client pc would allow you to automatically obtain an IP addess. Network Connections > choose the local area connection > right-click, properties > Internet protocol (TCP/IP) > check "obtain IP address automatically"

Apart from that, your firstSpot configuration have to be accurate as well.
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[Mactrekr]

I'm not sure you understood my question about load balancing. I'm not interested in having FirstSpot combine two seperate internet connections, what I'm wondering is; if I leave my bandwidth un-throttled in the global setting and have all of the clients use the global setting, will FirstSpot share the bandwidth equally between my customers or will the first customer on the net get all of the bandwidth?

Also, just so I understand correctly. Our router, which will be placed between our internet connection and the FirstSpot computer can not act as our DHCP server?

Thanks for the help.
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[alan]

1) If Bandwidth Throttling is off, FirstSpot will split the bandwidth among all users.

BTW, FirstSpot bandwidth throttling works by placing at maximum bandwidth for each user. For example, if the global bandwidth throttling setting is 50KBytes/s, the most bandwidth each user can get is 50KBytes/s, regardless of the currently available bandwidth or number of users online. Bandwidth Throttling is quite useful in situation such as limiting P2P traffic.

2) FirstSpot can act as a DHCP server. It is just FirstSpot DHCP server decides its own IP address set (by Private Network Interface IP and subnet mask), rather than obtains any information from your router's DHCP server. In practices, most of our customers use FirstSpot DHCP server instead of setting one up on their own.
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