Moving from Star-OS to Mikrotik Issues

RouterOS General
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Hi

Im planning a migrate from Star-OS to Mikrotik.

Our backhaul is bridged and the APs are routed onto the backhaul. I wish to keep this setup as its workign perfectly for us with no issues at present. However, I want to start using PPPOE for clients. what im thinking is the following: Our backhaul units are ptp600s motos and microwave.

CLIENT ----- PPPOE SESSION ------ AP ---- BRIDGED BACKHAUL --------- NOC ( WITH RADIUS SERVER )

So I want the client to autenticate and create a PPOE session to a Mikrotik board. However, I want to centrally manage all the users on a radius server back at the NOC. Star-os can do this by pointing its PPOE server on the node to a radius server. I just cant see how this is done in the Mikrotik. I dont want the PPOE session going all the way back to the NOC. Just want the Mikrotik box to lookup a radius server to see if that client is autenticated. the Radius server can be either Mikrotik or freeradius.

Any ideas if i can acompolish this ?

Thanks in advance.

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I do not understand where is PPPoE server.
With MikroTik as PPPoE server, you can point to use RADIUS server for PPPoE sessions,

  • ppp aaa set use-radius=yes;
  • set up RADIUS client in ‘radius’ menu;
  • make sure PPPoE server is configured and RADIUS server has enough information.

MikroTik PPPoE server will contact RADIUS for full AAA of PPPoE client.

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Hi

Apologies if i wasnt clear

Typical setup is the following


CLIENT ( PPPOE CLIENT) ------> MIKROTIK RB333 (PPPOE SERVER) -----> BACKHAUL ----->
GATEWAY( MT RUNNING RADIUS )

I want the client to connect to the MIKROTIK via PPPOE but is it possible to get the RB333 to look up the users credentials via radius ? I cant see radius client in the MT software only radius server setup.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

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I want the client to connect to the MIKROTIK via PPPOE but is it possible to get the RB333 to look up the users credentials via radius ?

Yes, it is possible.

I cant see radius client in the MT software only radius server setup.

/radius menu is used to configure RADIUS client,
http://www.mikrotik.com/testdocs/ros/2.9/guide/aaa_radius.php