Summary

RADIUS, short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, is a remote server that provides authentication and accounting facilities to various network appliances. RADIUS authentication and accounting allows the ISP or network administrator to manage PPP user access and accounting from one server throughout a large network. The MikroTik RouterOS has a RADIUS client that can authenticate router's local users, HotSpot, PPP, PPPoE, PPTP, L2TP, OVPN, SSTP, IPsec and ISDN connections. The attributes received from the RADIUS server override the ones set in the default profile, but if some parameters are not received they are taken from the respective default profile.

The RADIUS server database is consulted only if no matching user access record is found in the router's local database.

If RADIUS accounting is enabled, accounting information is also sent to the RADIUS server default for that service.

RADIUS Client

This sub-menu allows adding and removing RADIUS clients. 

Properties

Example

To set up a RADIUS Client for HotSpot and PPP services that will authenticate against a RADIUS Server (10.0.0.3), you need to do the following:

[admin@MikroTik] > /radius add service=hotspot,ppp address=10.0.0.3 secret=ex
[admin@MikroTik] > /radius print
Flags: X - disabled
# SERVICE CALLED-ID DOMAIN ADDRESS SECRET
0 ppp,hotspot 

To set up a RADIUS Client with RadSec, you need to do the following:

[admin@MikroTik] > /radius add service=hotspot,ppp address=10.0.0.3 secret=radsec protocol=radsec certificate=client.crt
[admin@MikroTik] > /radius print
Flags: X - disabled
# SERVICE CALLED-ID DOMAIN ADDRESS SECRET
0 ppp,hotspot 10.0.0.3 radsec

To view RADIUS Client statistics, you need to do the following:

[admin@MikroTik] > /radius monitor 0
pending: 0
requests: 10
accepts: 4
rejects: 1
resends: 15
timeouts: 5
bad-replies: 0
last-request-rtt: 0s

Make sure you enable RADIUS authentication for the desired services:

/ppp aaa set use-radius=yes
/ip hotspot profile set default use-radius=yes

Connection Terminating from RADIUS

This facility supports unsolicited messages sent from the RADIUS server. Unsolicited messages extend RADIUS protocol commands, that allow terminating a session that has already been connected from the RADIUS server. For this purpose, DM (Disconnect-Messages) is used. Disconnect messages cause a user session to be terminated immediately. 

Properties

Supported RADIUS Attributes

Here you can download the RADIUS reference dictionary, that includes all supported RADIUS attributes by MikroTik device. This file is designed for FreeRADIUS, but may also be used by other RADIUS servers. Note, it may conflict with the default configuration file of your RADIUS server, correct the configuration, not the dictionary, as no other attributes are supported by MikroTik RouterOS. There is also the RADIUS MikroTik specific dictionary that can be included in an existing dictionary to support MikroTik vendor-specific attributes.

Below you will find description about attributes and how they are used on MikroTik devices during communication with RADIUS.

Definitions

• PPPs - PPP,PPTP, PPPoE
• default configuration -settings in default profile (for PPPs) or HotSpot server settings (for HotSpot)

Access-Request packet

• Service-Type - always is "Framed" (only for PPPs)
• Framed-Protocol - always is "PPP" (only for PPPs)
• NAS-Identifier - router's identity name
• NAS-IP-Address - IP address of the router itself
• NAS-Port - this Attribute indicates the physical port number of the NAS which is authenticating the user.
• Acct-Session-Id - unique session ID. The first two symbols of session ID represent service (PPP, Hotspot, etc.). The next symbol is incremented on each reboot. The last group of symbols is incremented on each new session. This means, that you can not get the same ID for 1 million re-connects on the same boot for the same RADIUS type service. If you lose session stop message and RADIUS server does still keep the session open, but then receives another session start message, then it must be aware that stop message was lost, close old session and start a new session.
• NAS-Port-Type - async PPP - "Async"; PPTP and L2TP - "Virtual"; PPPoE - "Ethernet"; ISDN - "ISDN Sync"; HotSpot - "Ethernet | Cable | Wireless-802.11" (according to the value of nas-port-type parameter in /ip hotspot profile)
• Calling-Station-Id - PPPoE and HotSpot- client MAC address in capital letters; PPTP and L2TP - client public IP address
• Called-Station-Id - PPPoE - service name; PPTP and L2TP - server IP address; HotSpot - name of the HotSpot server
• NAS-Port-Id - async PPP - serial port name; PPPoE - ethernet interface name on which server is running; HotSpot - name of the physical HotSpot interface (if bridged, the bridge port name is showed here); not present for ISDN, PPTP and L2TP
• Framed-IP-Address - IP address of HotSpot client after Universal Client translation
• Mikrotik-Host-IP - IP address of HotSpot client before Universal Client translation (the original IP address of the client)
• User-Name - client login name
• MS-CHAP-Domain - User domain, if present
• Mikrotik-Realm - If it is set in /radius menu, it is included in every RADIUS request as Mikrotik-Realm attribute. If it is not set, the same value is sent as in MS-CHAP-Domain attribute (if MS-CHAP-Domain is missing, Realm is not included neither)
• WISPr-Location-ID - text string specified in radius-location-id property of the HotSpot server
• WISPr-Location-Name - text string specified in radius-location-name property of the HotSpot server
• WISPr-Logoff-URL - full link to the login page (for example, http://10.48.0.1/lv/logout)

Depending on authentication methods (NOTE: HotSpot uses CHAP by default and may use also PAP if unencrypted passwords are enabled, it can not use MSCHAP).

• User-Password - encrypted password (used with PAP authentication)
• CHAP-Password, CHAP-Challenge - encrypted password and challenge (used with CHAP authentication)
• MS-CHAP-Response, MS-CHAP-Challenge - encrypted password and challenge (used with MS-CHAPv1 authentication)
• MS-CHAP2-Response, MS-CHAP-Challenge - encrypted password and challenge (used with MS-CHAPv2 authentication)

Access-Accepts packet

• Framed-IP-Address - IP address given to client. If address belongs to 127.0.0.0/8 or 224.0.0.0/3 networks, IP pool is used from the default profile to allocate client IP address. If Framed-IP-Address is specified, Framed-Pool is ignored
• Framed-IP-Netmask - client netmask. PPPs - if specified, a route will be created to the network Framed-IP-Address belongs to via the Framed-IP-Address gateway; HotSpot - ignored by HotSpot
• Framed-Pool - IP pool name (on the router) from which to get IP address for the client. If Framed-IP-Address is specified, this attribute is ignored
• Framed-IPv6-Prefix - IPv6 prefix assigned for the client
• Mikrotik-Delegated-IPv6-Pool - IPv6 pool used for Prefix Delegation
• Delegated-IPv6-Prefix - IPv6 Prefix
• Delegated-IPv6-Prefix-Pool - IPv6 Prefix pool used for Prefix Delegation

NOTE: if Framed-IP-Address or Framed-Pool is specified it overrides remote-address in default configuration.

• Idle-Timeout - overrides idle-timeout in the default configuration
• Session-Timeout - overrides session-timeout in the default configuration
• Port-Limit - maximal mumber of simultaneous connections using the same username (overrides te shared-users property of the HotSpot user profile)
• Class - cookie, will be included in Accounting-Request unchanged
• Framed-Route - routes to add on the server. Format is specified in RFC 2865 (Ch. 5.22), can be specified as many times as needed
• Filter-Id - firewall filter chain name. It is used to make a dynamic firewall rule. Firewall chain name can have suffix .in or .out, that will install rule only for incoming or outgoing traffic. Multiple Filter-id can be provided, but only last ones for incoming and outgoing is used. For PPPs - filter rules in ppp chain that will jump to the specified chain, if a packet has come to/from the client (that means that you should first create a ppp chain and make jump rules that would put actual traffic to this chain). The same applies for HotSpot, but the rules will be created in hotspot chain
• Mikrotik-Mark-Id - firewall mangle chain name (HotSpot only). The MikroTik RADIUS client upon receiving this attribute creates a dynamic firewall mangle rule with action=jump chain=hotspot and jump-target equal to the atribute value. Mangle chain name can have suffixes .in or .out, that will install rule only for incoming or outgoing traffic. Multiple Mark-id attributes can be provided, but only last ones for incoming and outgoing is used.
• Acct-Interim-Interval - interim-update for RADIUS client. PPP - if 0 uses the one specified in RADIUS client; HotSpot - only respected if radius-interim-update=received in HotSpot server profile
• MS-MPPE-Encryption-Policy - require-encryption property (PPPs only)
• MS-MPPE-Encryption-Types - use-encryption property, non-zero value means to use encryption (PPPs only)
• Ascend-Data-Rate - tx/rx data rate limitation if multiple attributes are provided, first limits tx data rate, second - rx data rate. If used together with Ascend-Xmit-Rate, specifies rx rate. 0 if unlimited. Ignored if Rate-Limit attribute is present
• Ascend-Xmit-Rate - tx data rate limitation. It may be used to specify tx limit only instead of sending two sequental Ascend-Data-Rate attributes (in that case Ascend-Data-Rate will specify the receive rate). 0 if unlimited. Ignored if Rate-Limit attribute is present
• MS-CHAP2-Success - auth. response if MS-CHAPv2 was used (for PPPs only)
• MS-MPPE-Send-Key, MS-MPPE-Recv-Key - encryption keys for encrypted PPPs provided by RADIUS server only is MS-CHAPv2 was used as authentication (for PPPs only)
• Ascend-Client-Gateway - client gateway for DHCP-pool HotSpot login method (HotSpot only)
• Mikrotik-Recv-Limit - total receive limit in bytes for the client
• Mikrotik-Recv-Limit-Gigawords - 4G (2^32) bytes of total receive limit (bits 32..63, when bits 0..31 are delivered in Mikrotik-Recv-Limit)
• Mikrotik-Xmit-Limit - total transmit limit in bytes for the client
• Mikrotik-Xmit-Limit-Gigawords - 4G (2^32) bytes of total transmit limit (bits 32..63, when bits 0..31 are delivered in Mikrotik-Recv-Limit)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-Forward - not forward the client's frames back to the wireless infrastructure if this attribute is set to "0" (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-Skip-Dot1x - disable 802.1x authentication for the particulat wireless client if set to non-zero value (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-Enc-Algo - WEP encryption algorithm: 0 - no encryption, 1 - 40-bit WEP, 2 - 104-bit WEP (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-Enc-Key - WEP encruption key for the client (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-VLANID - VLAN ID for the client (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Wireless-VLANID-type - VLAN ID type for the client. 0 - 802.1q tag and 1 - 802.1ad tag (Wireless only)
• Mikrotik-Switching-Filter - allows to create dynamic switch rules, when authenticating clients with dot1x server.
• Mikrotik-Rate-Limit - Datarate limitation for clients. Format is: rx-rate[/tx-rate] [rx-burst-rate[/tx-burst-rate] [rx-burst-threshold[/tx-burst-threshold] [rx-burst-time[/tx-burst-time] [priority] [rx-rate-min[/tx-rate-min]]]] from the point of view of the router (so "rx" is client upload, and "tx" is client download). All rates should be numbers with optional 'k' (1,000s) or 'M' (1,000,000s). If tx-rate is not specified, rx-rate is as tx-rate too. Same goes for tx-burst-rate and tx-burst-threshold and tx-burst-time. If both rx-burst-threshold and tx-burst-threshold are not specified (but burst-rate is specified), rx-rate and tx-rate is used as burst thresholds. If both rx-burst-time and tx-burst-time are not specified, 1s is used as default. Priority takes values 1..8, where 1 implies the highest priority, but 8 - the lowest. If rx-rate-min and tx-rate-min are not specified rx-rate and tx-rate values are used. The rx-rate-min and tx-rate-min values can not exceed rx-rate and tx-rate values.
• Mikrotik-Group - Router local user group name (defines in /user group) for local users; HotSpot default profile for HotSpot users; PPP default profile name for PPP users.
• Mikrotik-Advertise-URL - URL of the page with advertisements that should be displayed to clients. If this attribute is specified, advertisements are enabled automatically, including transparent proxy, even if they were explicitly disabled in the corresponding user profile. Multiple attribute instances may be send by RADIUS server to specify additional URLs which are choosen in round robin fashion.
• Mikrotik-Advertise-Interval - Time interval between two adjacent advertisements. Multiple attribute instances may be send by RADIUS server to specify additional intervals. All interval values are treated as a list and are taken one-by-one for each successful advertisement. If end of list is reached, the last value is continued to be used.
• WISPr-Redirection-URL - URL, which the clients will be redirected to after successfull login
• WISPr-Bandwidth-Min-Up - minimal datarate (CIR) provided for the client upload
• WISPr-Bandwidth-Min-Down - minimal datarate (CIR) provided for the client download
• WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Up - maxmal datarate (MIR) provided for the client upload
• WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Down - maxmal datarate (MIR) provided for the client download
• WISPr-Session-Terminate-Time - time, when the user should be disconnected; in "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD" form, where Y - year; M - month; D - day; T - separator symbol (must be written between date and time); h - hour (in 24 hour format); m - minute; s - second; TZD - time zone in one of these forms: "+hh:mm", "+hhmm", "-hh:mm", "-hhmm".

The received attributes override the default ones (set in the default profile), but if an attribute is not received from RADIUS server, the default one is to be used.  Rate-Limit takes precedence over all other ways to specify data rate for the client. Ascend data rate attributes are considered second; and WISPr attributes takes the last precedence.

Here are some Rate-Limit examples:

• 128k - rx-rate=128000, tx-rate=128000 (no bursts)
• 64k/128M - rx-rate=64000, tx-rate=128000000
• 64k 256k - rx/tx-rate=64000, rx/tx-burst-rate=256000, rx/tx-burst-threshold=64000, rx/tx-burst-time=1s
• 64k/64k 256k/256k 128k/128k 10/10 - rx/tx-rate=64000, rx/tx-burst-rate=256000, rx/tx-burst-threshold=128000, rx/tx-burst-time=10s

Accounting-Request packet

The accounting request carries the same attributes as Access Request, plus these ones:

• Acct-Status-Type - Start, Stop, or Interim-Update
• Acct-Authentic - either authenticated by the RADIUS or Local authority (PPPs only)
• Class - RADIUS server cookie, as received in Access-Accept
• Acct-Delay-Time - how long does the router try to send this Accounting-Request packet

Stop and Interim-Update Accounting-Request packet

Additionally to the accounting start request, the following messages will contain the following attributes:

• Acct-Session-Time - connection uptime in seconds
• Acct-Input-Octets - bytes received from the client
• Acct-Input-Gigawords - 4G (2^32) bytes received from the client (bits 32..63, when bits 0..31 are delivered in Acct-Input-Octets)
• Acct-Input-Packets - nubmer of packets received from the client
• Acct-Output-Octets - bytes sent to the client
• Acct-Output-Gigawords - 4G (2^32) bytes sent to the client (bits 32..63, when bits 0..31 are delivered in Acct-Output-Octets)
• Acct-Output-Packets - number of packets sent to the client

Stop Accounting-Request packet

These packets will, additionally to the Interim Update packets, have:

• Acct-Terminate-Cause - session termination cause (see RFC 2866 ch. 5.10)

Change of Authorization

RADIUS disconnect and Change of Authorization (according to RFC3576) are supported as well. These attributes may be changed by a CoA request from the RADIUS server:

• Mikrotik-Group
• Mikrotik-Recv-Limit
• Mikrotik-Xmit-Limit
• Mikrotik-Rate-Limit
• Ascend-Data-Rate (only if Mikrotik-Rate-Limit is not present)
• Ascend-XMit-Rate (only if Mikrotik-Rate-Limit is not present)
• Mikrotik-Mark-Id
• Filter-Id
• Mikrotik-Advertise-Url
• Mikrotik-Advertise-Interval
• Session-Timeout
• Idle-Timeout
• Port-Limit

Note that it is not possible to change IP address, pool or routes that way - for such changes a user must be disconnected first.

MikroTik Specific RADIUS Attribute Numeric Values

All Supported Attribute Numeric Values