CAPTIVE PORTAL BLOCKS PING

[Jhoemb]

Hello... I have Pfsense 2.6.0 installed and when I activate the captive portal it blocks ping 8.8.8.8 and the other network interfaces... does anyone know how to remove this block? thanks...note: i immediately disable the captive portal the ping returns.

[Gertjan]

@Jhoemb said in CAPTIVE PORTAL BLOCKS PING:

does anyone know how to remove this block?

De activate the Captive portal.

Or : connect a device to the captive portal network.
Most, if not every, modern device will recognize the 'portal', and challenge it. No other interaction needed from your side. The login page will pop up. Identify.
Now, for your device, your IP/MAC, the portal became transparent.

A captive portal blocks nearly everything.
It will accept, on the pfSense captive portal interface, accept DNS requests on port 53.
And port 80 (443) request TCP 'browser' request and redirect them to 800x and 800z.

Most important : a clean 2.6.0 install has a captive portal bug : only TCP was passed, no ICMP, no UDP. There is a must-have patch, install the pfSense System Pacther package.

[Jhoemb]

@Gertjan Thanks