Mikrotik User Manager as Radius Server

I continue to post about hotspot billing system. Actually I wanted to post about Daloradius. However, because still need more experiments, then I delay for a while. And now I'm posting about the "user manager" of the Mikrotik. What is a user manager? User Manager is a RADIUS server application. It is a separate package for RouterOS.

Modify Easyhotspot as Radius Server External

EasyHotspot is an open source software, so it should not matter, if you make modifications. In this post, I will change a little EasyHotspot. And this relates to the previous post, Mikrotik and EasyHotspot as Hotspot, we can’t disconnect user  from radius server / EasyHotspot. so what should we do?

First, we must know how to disconnect the user. General command to disconnect users, in a radius server, including easyhotpsot, using the command radclient.

Mikrotik and EasyHotspot, as Hotspot Billing System

In the previous post, we already know about the mikrotik hotspot. And the next experiments, mikrotik hotspot added a EasyHotspot as radius server. Can be seen in the picture. In this experiment, Chillispot and login page, on EasyHotspot, not used and should be removed. Mikrotik will replace the function of Chillispot and login page. Actual merger mikrotik with radius server, I've created, in a project by PT xxx. But I had forgotten what a hotspot billing system used. And it is not archived.

Configure Mikrotik as a Hotspot Server

 

There are many posts on how to configure Mikrotik as hotspot. But I am sure this is not the result of a cheat sheet. Even if some of section are the same, it was fate. Mikrotik is a friendly operation system, and is very easy to configured. Enough to know the concept of network, plus with a Winbox, then you will easily configure the Mikrotik, in accordance with your wishes. I configured wireless outdoor of mikrotik, as a hotspot. I forget the type of the mikrotik. It's been a long time. And now for the post on this blog, I configure the mikrotik hotspot again, but this time, the mikrotik is installed inside vmware.

Let’s begin.