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 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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FreeRADIUS User Group Management with MySQLJanuary 3, 2019

FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS Server. A number of network devices can be used with freeRADIUS Server as a RADIUS Client including MikroTik Router. As a modular RADIUS suite, freeRADIUS accepts MySQL module to query user authentication and authorization and to store accounting data. In my previous article, I [...]

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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 WiFi MAC Authentication with UserMan RADIUS ServerDecember 23, 2019

MikroTik Wireless Router is popularly used as WiFi AP. MikroTik WiFi AP has a lot of features to tune WiFi network as your requirements. MAC authentication is one the amazing and useful features in MikroTik WiFi. MAC authentication enables filtering MAC address that means no MAC can be able to [...]

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FreeRADIUS User Profile Configuration for MikroTik RouterJanuary 10, 2019

FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS application that accepts a large number of network devices as RADIUS Client including MikroTik Router. FreeRADIUS MySQL module helps to get user authentication and authorization information from database server and to store user accounting information in database server. Configuring MySQL user group and profile [...]

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Ubuntu RADIUS Server Configuration with freeRADIUSSeptember 3, 2022

Ubuntu Server is one of most popular open-source Linux Server distribution. It is stable and reliable than other Linux distributions. So, enterprise level application can be hosted on Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu RADIUS Server is popularly used for remote authentication and mostly used with the freeRADIUS open source RAIDUS application. freeRADIUS [...]

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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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