Setting mikrotik hotspot

For enabling Hotspot on MikroTik it is necessary to configure network interfaces and run the commands:

[admin@MikroTik] ip hotspot> setup

Select interface to run Hotspot on

hotspot interface: ether2

Add hotspot authentication for existing interface setup?

interface already configured: yes

Use SSL authentication?

use ssl: no

Use transparent web proxy for hotspot clients?

use transparent web proxy: no

Use local DNS cache?

use local dns cache: no

DNS name of local hotspot server

dns name: 192.168.0.1

Select another port for (www) service

port 80 is used by www service, select some other port for this service

another port for service: 8081

Create local hotspot user

name of local hotspot user: admin

password for the user: admin

[admin@MikroTik] ip hotspot>

For configuring it to work with a RADIUS server run the commands:

[admin@MikroTik] ip hotspot> aaa set use-radius=yes accounting=yes

[admin@MikroTik] radius> add service=hotspot address=10.1.2.105 secret=secret

authentication-port=1812 accounting-port=1813

For enabling DHCP server run the commands:

[admin@MikroTik] ip dhcp-server> setup

Select interface to run DHCP server on

dhcp server interface: ether2

Select network for DHCP addresses

dhcp address space: 192.168.0.0/24

Select gateway for given network

gateway for dhcp network: 192.168.0.1

Select pool of ip addresses given out by DHCP server

addresses to give out: 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.254

Select DNS servers

dns servers: 10.1.2.5

Select lease time

lease time: 3d

[admin@MikroTik] ip dhcp-server>

Also it is necessary to enable caching DNS server by using the commands:

[admin@MikroTik] ip dns> set primary-dns=10.1.2.5

[admin@MikroTik] ip dns> set allow-remote-requests=yes

As a result of these settings on connecting a user via wireless network it is automatically given out (via DHCP) an IP address, default gateway, DNS server. At that by default all packets from a user are forwarded to the MikroTik authorization page: