Well, it's kinda working now. After changing the interface name in the config from optX to carpX, the interface was set to LAN (should be pubWlan) by pfSense, and that was the reason it was not working initially in addition to a required reboot. But, the CARP on both fw's are now master, and i cannot see any multicasted VRRP packages on those interfaces anymore. A solution/workaround is highly welcome. Thanks.

Right on the money morbus, i hooked my router up to my modem directly (after checking my configs a bit more) and testing the public networks option and it works, appears i was running into problems because i was testing it in a cascading NAT situation. Thanks for your help hopefuly in full deployment i wont cripple my self so badly!

erm, make that:

problem solved, thanks  :D

Cool ;D

I too am seeing this behaviour (livecd install)

Worked a treat.  Just substituded the submit button for a hidden tag. Many thanks. Regards David

I have not seen this behavior in newer versions.

Take a look at a billing package called freeside. It supports this and is opensourced,  and also has commercial support. We have used it for several years and are using it with pfsense / radius for the last month. http://www.sisd.com/freeside/ for a quick start using a vmware image: http://www.sisd.com/freeside/developers.html -Mark

At one time there was a functional arpwatch package.

Many thanks. For anyone finding this in the future, please see link : http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5054.0.html to fix the problem of pfsense not running the uploaded php page.

I already do this with captive portal + freeradius–->ldap.... Other thing that I would like to do is the status page of the active users....I want to see the username...is this possible?

I'm a noob when it comes to this so I had trouble setting up the internal Freeradius server too.  But I got it working by doing the following which I cut and pasted and mangled from another thread I found.  What was getting me was I didn't set up my client, just had the server running and added users - gotta have that client configured too…lol. 1.  Install the latest pfSense snapshot. 2.  Install the FreeRADIUS package (not available on the embedded platform). 3.  Go to Services/Captive Portal and enable RADIUS Authentication. 4.  Configure your Primary Radius Server IP Address = LAN port IP on pfSense box. 5.  Configure Shared Secret = your secret word. 6.  Click SAVE - very important or your settings won't take. 7.  Go to the Services/FreeRADIUS, select the Client Tab, then configure your client.     Client IP = LAN port IP on pfSense box, Shared Secret = your secret word that you entered above on line 5. 8.  Again, click SAVE after your client is configured. 9.  Click the Users Tab and add your usernames/passwords to FreeRADIUS. 10. Did I mention, click SAVE after each user is added. Okay, you should be good to go at this point. Daxx

@egarnel: It would be neat to have the ability to be able to serve up different portal content based on originating network though see this topic for how to set that up http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,5368.0.html