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  • FreeRADIUS User Profile Configuration for MikroTik Router

    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 properly, freeRADIUS user restriction can easily be maintained. How to configure user group to apply user limitation was discussed in my previous article. In this article, I will discuss how to configure freeRADIUS user profile to apply user limitation with more efficiently. FreeRADIUS User Profile Configuration A user profile is nothing but a user who has no entry in radcheck and radreply table but is a member of one or more groups to hold reply attributes. Assigning group to a profile is done with radusergroup table. User-Profile internal AVP is used to assign a profile to a user with radcheck table. So, a complete profile configuration is done by the following steps. Creating user limitations with group management Assigning group to a profile holder user Assigning created profile to users In this article, we will create the following three profiles for MikroTik PPPoE users according to the above steps. Profile [...]

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    FreeRADIUS MySQL Database GUI with phpMyAdmin on CentOS 7 |   January 30, 2019

    FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS Server that accepts a large number of networking devices as RADIUS Client including MikroTik Router. MySQL is one of the best user sources for freeRADIUS server. In my previous article, I discussed how to install freeRADIUS server on CentOS 7 and how to integrate MySQL module with freeRADIUS server. I also discussed how to create user group and profile in MySQL database server and authenticate MikroTik PPPoE client with MySQL database user. I used [...]

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    MikroTik PPPoE Server Configuration with freeRADIUS Server |   January 20, 2019

    PPPoE Service is one of the most popular services in MikroTik Router. It is specially used by the local ISP provider for the simplicity of client connection. MikroTik PPPoE Service accepts user or client authentication and authorization both MikroTik local user database and RADIUS user database. RADIUS Server provides an efficient way to manage user authentication, authorization and accounting.  FreeRADIUS is a high performance RADIUS suite that provides user authentication, authorization and accounting facility for a number of network devices [...]

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    FreeRADIUS User Group Management with MySQL |   January 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 discussed how to install and configure FreeRADIUS MySQL module. I also discussed how to authenticate MikroTik Login with freeRADIUS MySQL user. In this article, we will talk about how to [...]

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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 Bind Hotspot User to MAC and Static IP in MikroTik |   November 6, 2020

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    Install MikroTik RouterOS on PC |   June 13, 2016

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