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WiFi Hotspot with Radius Server

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Abhineesh Gopakumar

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A hotspot is a physical location where people may obtain Internet access, typically
using Wi-Fi technology, via a wireless local area network (WLAN) using
a router connected to an internet service provider.

Public hotspots may be created by a business for use by customers, such as coffee
shops or hotels. Public hotspots are typically created from wireless access
points configured to provide Internet access, controlled to some degree by the venue.
In its simplest form, venues that have broadband Internet access can create public
wireless access by configuring a access point(AP), in conjunction with a router and
connecting the AP to the Internet connection. A single wireless router combining these
functions may suffice.[1]

Private hotspots may be configured on a smartphone or tablet with a mobile network

data plan to allow Internet access to a other devices via Bluetooth pairing or if both the
hotspot device and the device/s accessing it are connected to the same Wi-Fi
network.

Here in this blog. i would like to explain hotpot setup In MikrotikRouterboard with
Radius Authentication.

Please follow this video for Mikrotik Device basic settings

After the basic settings we start hotspot configuration,

Login to the Mikrotik Router using Winbox.

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Click on ‘Wireless’ tab, Click interfaces then Wireles.

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Change the SSID to whatever you like.

Click on security profiles and select the authentication mode ‘none’.

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Click on ‘Bridge’ , create a new bridge and name it ‘Bridge-Hotspot’.

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Click on Ports and select ‘wlan1’ to the newly created bridge ‘Bridge-Hotspot’.

Click IP ->Hotspot

Click on ‘Hotspot Setup’

Select Hotspot interface as ‘Bridge-Hotspot’.

and click next

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click Next

You can enter the default address pool here.

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next

select certificate- if you have valid certificate choose it or select ‘none’ .

IP of SMTP server- ‘none’

DNS Server – ‘none’

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next

DNS Name.

Enter the DNS name. That name will be the display name of the Hotspot Login page.

Default user for the hotspot will be ‘admin’

Enter a password for ‘admin’.

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You will see a message. ‘setup has completed successfully’.

Double click on ‘hotspot1’ and edit.

change Address per MAC from 2 to 1 for security reason. It will allow one connection
per MAC.otherwise someone can spoof the MAC address and connect.

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Click on server profiles -> click Radius-> put a tick on ‘Use Radius’.

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Click on ‘Login’

tick out ‘cookie’

Click on System->packages and make sure ‘user-manager’ package is installed.

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Click on ‘Radius’ and add a radius server as shown

Enter IP: 127.0.0.1

secret: 123 (use secure one, This is for demonstration only)

Click on ‘incoming’ and put a tick on ‘accept’

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Reboot the router.

Open web browser and enter ‘192.168.88.1/userman’

Mikrotik User manager page will open. Default user name is admin and there is no
password.

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Login to User Manager.

Click on Routers and add Router.

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Create a New Profile

You can add profile limitations, if you want.

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Click on ‘Users’ and create the hotspot users.

Setup is completed.

Connect to that Hotspot from a wifi enabled computer, tablet or mobile.

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You will see a Login Page.

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Login with the Username and password, and You can start browsing.

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