Radius Manager provides an easy-to-use administration system for Mikrotik Routers and Wireless Acces Points. With a help of a centralized accounting system (which is provided by a Radius server) the user management and accounting for ISP's becomes a simple task.

Mikrotik Access Points connects to the Radius server (links can be wireless or wired). The following task are automated with the help of this structure:

• login authentication: authenticates users from the centralized database. Two types of authentication is provided: MAC and username/password based.
• traffic accounting: AP periodically sends the accounting information to Radius server which stores it in its database.
• account expiration date: You can handle your monthly accounts easily.
• uptime limitation: for dialup systems.
• traffic limitation: when a predefined traffic limit is reached (which is configurable for every user), the AP disconnects the user.

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1. User authentication (MAC and username/password based):

   Wireless Access Points sends user authentication requests to Radius Accounting Server. Radius server can run on many platforms (including all Unix-like systems). If Radius finds user account in its databse, it responds with a "user found message".

2. Traffic accounting:

   Mikrotik PPPoE / Hotspot / VPN server periodically sends the traffic accounting datas to Radius Accounting Server which stores these datas in it's database (one-way interaction).