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MikroTik Radius Configuration with FreeRADIUS
FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS suite that provides authentication, authorization and accounting facility for a large number of network devices including MikroTik Router. Although MikroTik has user manager RADIUS service to provide authentication, authorization and accounting facility but it is not free for customization and not suitable for medium to large organization. On the other hand, freeRADIUS is free for customization according to your organization requirements. But freeRADIUS has to be customized by you. In my previous article, I discussed how to install and configure freeRADIUS on CentOS 7 Linux distribution. In this article, I will show how to connect MikroTik Router with freeRADIUS Server and authenticate MikroTik login with freeRADIUS users. Network Diagram For this article configuration, I am following a network diagram like below image. In this network, MikroTik Router’s (RouterBOARD 1100 AHX2) WAN interface (ether1) is connected to internet through WAN distribution switch having IP address 192.168.40.8/25. MikroTik Router also has a LAN network having IP network 10.10.60.0/24. The freeRADIUS Server, installed on CentOS 7 Linux Server, is also connected to internet through WAN switch having IP address 192.168.40.10. So, MikroTik Router can see freeRADIUS Server through WAN interface and WAN switch. In this article, we [...]
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Ubuntu RADIUS Server Configuration with freeRADIUS | September 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 is one of the most popular and powerful AAA (Authorization, Authentication and Accounting) application. Any enterprise (specially ISP company) can use freeRADIUS for AAA solution and can develop billing system. [...]
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MikroTik RADIUS Server (User Manager) Installation | October 28, 2017
RADIUS Server is a centralized user authentication, authorization and accounting application. RADIUS authentication gives the ISP or network administrator ability to manage PPP users, login users and Hotspot users from one server throughout a large network. MikroTik RouterOS has a RADIUS client that is able to authenticate login users, Hotspot users and PPP users through a RADIUS server. MikroTik team also developed a totally separate RADIUS server package named User Manager that can be used to authenticate MikroTik users smoothly. [...]
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How to Properly Downgrade MikroTik RouterOS and Firmware | October 2, 2019
MikroTik RouterOS is in constant development and new features or bug fixes are frequently available, sometimes even monthly. So, it is always recommend upgrading MikroTik RouterOS to a latest and stable version before beginning any configuration. But sometimes you may face that the upgraded version is not working properly according to your demand or you may upgrade to a new version that you don’t want. In this case, you should come back to your workable RouterOS version and firmware. Upgrading RouterOS [...]
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MikroTik Backup and Restore Configuration using Winbox | July 31, 2018
Backup and Restore feature in MikroTik Router helps to recover router configuration when running router fails to operation due to hardware failure. If you have a backup copy of your failed router and purchase a new MikroTik Router and then upload and restore that backup file, you will get your running network without any hassle. MikroTik Backup file is also useful when you unfortunately forget your admin privilege user password. You can easily recover your forgotten password with backup file [...]
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WiFi Station Setup in MikroTik Wireless Router | November 27, 2019
MikroTik Wireless Router is capable of working as a WiFi Client. So, if any ISP provides WiFi connection for their clients, MikroTik Wireless Router can be used to connect to that ISP SSID by configuring wireless station mode. MikroTik WiFi station mode finds available SSID and connects with permitted SSID. This wireless connection can be used as wireless WAN connection and configuring LAN, multiple devices can get internet over this wireless WAN connection. In my previous article, I discussed how [...]
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MikroTik Hotspot with Bandwidth Limitation and Prepaid Billing System | January 14, 2018
Say, you are a network administrator and want to establish a network that will have user bandwidth package management facility with prepaid billing system as well as partner advertisement facility. Then, MikroTik Hotspot Server Configuration with MikroTik User Manager Radius Server will be a wise decision. Because, MikroTik User Manager Radius Server is a user authentication, authorization and accounting application that will give facility to manage user bandwidth package with prepaid billing system. On the other hand, you can easily [...]
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VMware ESXi 6.7 Installation and Basic Configuration | November 17, 2020
VMware vSphere is the pioneer in virtualization. No other virtualization software is as feature rich as VMware vSphere. More than 500,000 enterprise data center are now using VMware vSphere. It is expected that most of the data center will be turned into virtualization near future. As VMware vSphere provides more feature than any other virtualization software, it is also expected that demand of VMware vSphere will be increased day by day. VMware ESXi is the foundation of VMware vSphere and [...]
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MikroTik User Manager RADIUS Installation on RouterOS 7 | July 5, 2022
The User Manager is a MikroTik provided RADIUS Server packages. It can be used to manage users for small or medium level business. User Manger is not a default RouterOS packages. So, we have to install user manager as an extra package in RouterOS 7. RouterOS 7 has brought a massive change on User Manager package. The most important change is managing User Manager from Winbox while in RouterOS 6 the User Manager package can only be managed from Web [...]
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WireGuard Site to Site VPN Between MikroTik RouterOS 7 | September 29, 2022
WireGuard is a free, open source, secure and high-speed modern VPN solution. WireGuard is extremely easy to implement but utilizes state-of-the-art cryptography. WireGuard can be used as either Client-Server VPN technology or Site to Site VPN technology. From the RouterOS 7, MikroTik introduces WireGuard VPN as their native package. So, who are using RouterOS 7 can use WireGuard VPN and can implement both client-server and site to site VPN with WireGuard free VPN server. In my previous article, I discussed [...]
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