Time for action – updating the MikroTik dictionary

Isaac e-mailed his friend informing him about the broken configuration. His friend then replied and instructed Isaac to visit the following URL, which shows the latest RADIUS attributes that MikroTik supports:

http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:RADIUS_Client

Although the content of the web page was a bit confusing initially, Isaac managed to do the following in order to fix everything on his FreeRADIUS server:

  1. Copy the pre-defined dictionary.mikrotik file to a folder inside the FreeRADIUS configuration directory:
    mkdir /etc/raddb/dictionary.local
cp /usr/share/freeradius/dictionary.mikrotik /etc/raddb/dictionary.local
  2. Update /etc/raddb/dictionary.local/dictionary.mikrotik to include the following ...

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