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PPPoE Configuration

These instructions assume that you have a new Mikrotik with little to no existing configuration.  It specifies certain IP ranges which are commonly used; however, you can replace the IP ranges referenced below with your own custom ranges if you wish.  Likewise, if you have a pre-existing PPPoE setup, you can skip all the steps that you have already completed.

Configure IP Pools

  • Setup a pool containing IP addresses you wish to assign to subscribers.  Name the pool “pppoe-pool” and set the addresses to 10.5.50.2-10.5.50.254 (this will support up to 253 subscribers – expand the pool if you are servicing more subscribers from this PPPoE server).
  • Setup a second pool.  Name the pool “suspended”, with an address range of 10.254.254.2-10.254.254.254.

Configure PPPoE Server

PPPoE Configuration

  • Click the PPPoE Servers tab and add a new server with the following settings
  • Name: ppp-visp
  • Interface: select your subscriber facing-interface
  • Default Profile: default-encryption
  • Authentication: check PAP & CHAP, un-check mschap1 & mschap2
  • Click the Secrets tab
  • Click the “PPP Authentication & Accounting” button, check Use Radius & Accounting, choose OK.
  • Click the Profiles tab and edit the default-encryption profile
  • Local address: 10.5.50.1 in this example
  • Remote Address: pppoe-pool
  • DNS Server: 8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4 (or use your own)

Configure Firewall and Redirection Page for Suspended Subscribers. 

  1. Please provide the ISP domain and the suspended subnet address to generate the firewall rules.
  2. After downloading the file, upload it to the Mikrotik router by dragging it to the file directory.
  3. Open the terminal window and run the following command:

/import verbose=yes file-name=firewall.cfg.rsc

Configure Queues

  • Select the Queue Types tab, and then double-click the default-small queue to open it.
  • Change the default-small queue Kind value to ‘sfq’ and leave the default settings.

Configure RADIUS Servers

Follow the instructions on this page to configure the RADIUS servers.

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