How do i use MT with External Radius Server

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Can anyone give me a detailed guard lines to setup Mikrotik to use an external Radius Server.
Such that all user information will be on my Radius Server not that the radius server is also my current DNS server.
Ellis.

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Greetings!

Add the MT hotspot IP and radius secret to your radius server client file.
Adjust your radius server firewall to pass ports 1812 and 1813 from that IP.

I use the CLI, so on the MT box:
/radius add service=hotspot address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx secret=radiussecret
/ip hotspot profile set X use-radius=yes

Change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and radiussecret to your radius server and radius secret.
Change X to the item number of your hotspot profile. You can see that with
/ip hotspot profile print

Then give it a try.

Just a note: If you want to use any time-based RADIUS features, insure to set your MT box for NTP. Otherwise the clock resets to jan/01/2000 00:00:00 on power fail or reboot.

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My setup does not require the ppp setting. Only what I listed. If your setup requires it, then that is where it would be added.

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thanks, will give it a try!

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Thanks for the kind response it works just fine.

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please give me pictures for that solution
:laughing:

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hi
I configure windows server 2008 to work as a radius server but when connect it to MT its not work and the it give me “RADIUS server is not responding” what is the problem ?

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The problem is your radius is not responding :slight_smile: !!! If the radius ip is set correctly in MT, it should respond.
But are you sure your radius is setup/working correctly? Is your MT configured as a client in your radius config?
Test your radius with NTRadPing or similar.(don’t forget to add the pc where you run the test utility from as a client too!)
Radius on windows makes me shiver anyway… Try linux with freeeradius, you’ll sleep better :slight_smile:

Good luck
B