I will confess my ignorance of both Usermanager and Hotspot immediately.
I have been using MikroTik boards for a few years but just haven't had to deal with authentication and radius servers-now I do. Here is the setup:
MT 493 AH running 5.13, usermanager 5.13 installed.
ether1-gateway- 10.1.4.3/29
ether2- DHCP client network 192.168.2.0/24, 192.168.2.1 DHCP server
ether3- DHCP client network 192.168.3.0/24, 192.168.3.1 DHCP server
ether4- DHCP client network 192.168.4.0/24, 192.168.4.1 DHCP server
ether5- DHCP client network 192.168.5.0/24, 192.168.5.1 DHCP server
everything is maqueraded out ether1
The goal: random client connects, is logged in automatically and is presented with total download/upload bytes since first login. Client is disconnected when a preset limit is reached (say 5GB down, 1GB up). Connection speeds controlled by either Usermanager or PCQ?
The question: I don't know if both Usermanager and Hotspot are required to accomplish this, or just one or the other.
If both are required, can their IP address both be 10.1.4.3 on ether1, or do I need 4 instances of Hotspot, one each on of the 4 LAN subnets?
Thanks very much if you can point me in the right direction. I have read everything I can find, but I'm still spinning my wheels at step 1.