MikroTik RouterOS Device Mode: Home, Basic, and Advanced – and Their Impact on Hotspot Setup

MikroTik RouterOS Device Mode: Home, Basic, and Advanced – and Their Impact on Hotspot Setup

MikroTik RouterOS offers flexible configuration options for everything from home routers to ISP-grade hotspots. When setting up your MikroTik device, you’ll see a Device Mode option in Quick Set — allowing you to choose between Home, Basic, or Advanced modes. These modes define how much control you have over the [...]

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MikroTik RADIUS Server Setup with User Manager – RouterOS7August 4, 2022

MikroTik User Manager RADIUS Server is an awesome service for user Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) for a small or medium business. User Manager RADIUS Server can be used to maintain Hotspot, PPP, DHCP, IPsec, Wireless and System User authentication.  In RouterOS 7, User Manager has come with new features [...]

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MikroTik User Manager Installation and Basic ConfigurationDecember 15, 2019

MikroTik User Manager is a RADIUS application developed by MikroTik team and can be used without charge. User Manager is used for authentication, authorization and accounting of MikroTik RouterOS, PPPoE, Hotspot, DHCP and Wireless users. Although User Manager Package is developed by MikroTik it will not be found in RouterOS [...]

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MikroTik Radius Configuration with FreeRADIUS and MySQLDecember 18, 2018

FreeRADIUS is a modular RADIUS suite. A lot of modules such as Perl, python, MySQL etc. can be integrated with freeRADIUS to enrich freeRADIUS features. MySQL is one of the best user and client sources in freeRADIUS server. One of the important advantages of MySQL with freeRADIUS server is that [...]

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MikroTik RouterOS User Authentication via RADIUS ServerNovember 19, 2017

MikroTik RouterOS has a strong local user database that is enough to manage a single MikroTik RouterOS user. But if your network has more than one MikroTik Routers, it is always better to use a RADIUS server to manage RouterOS user centrally. MikroTik User Manager RADIUS Server is a centralized [...]

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MikroTik PPPoE Server with Radius User AuthenticationDecember 17, 2017

MikroTik PPPoE Server is popularly used in ISP Companies. Almost all Local ISP Companies use PPPoE service to manage their client’s connection. So, PPPoE Server Configuration places an important role in MikroTik RouterOS. MikroTik PPPoE Server configuration with local user database has been discussed in my previous article that is [...]

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FreeRADIUS Installation and Basic Configuration on CentOS 7November 28, 2018

FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance and highly customizable open source RADIUS server. Anyone can use FreeRADIUS without any charge and can customize his RADIUS server according to his organizational requirements. In my previous article, I discussed how to install and configure user manager RADIUS server developed by MikroTik. The [...]

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MikroTik DHCP Server Configuration with Radius ServerJanuary 24, 2018

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a client-server protocol that is used to assign an IP address and other network configuration parameters dynamically to each device on a network so that they can communicate with other IP networks. DHCP Server is popularly used in an Enterprise Office Network because in an office network various [...]

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