Radius authentication Methods other than hotspot.

RouterOS General
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Our Wisp network is currently using Hotspot with MAC authentication to our Radius server for Speed control and accounting and it works fine. However, I want to institute QOS and use Queue trees and since I know that The simple queues used by hotspot to control speeds bypasses all the other queues.
I have a fully routed network with Nat at each AP. I know that I could implement PPPoE but would prefer to not add the PPPoE overhead. I know I could do dhcp with Mac Auth but I have static private IP already assigned to all my clients and I prefer to keep it that way.

Questions: 1. Is there another way to authenticate in my setup. 2. If not is there that much overhead with PPPoE if it is only between the client and the local tower.

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PPP should definitely be the route you want to go. Simple queues work fine, but alternatively you can use Mangle and create a queue tree based on the Mangle rules, but if you’re looking for a simple solution right now, you should use PPP and Simple Queues.