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Suggestion about load balanced multiwan and Captive Portal.

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    mrvanity
    last edited by May 7, 2009, 10:33 AM

    Good morning to you all  :)
    I was wondering if you can help me out on choosing a pfsense version .
    I want to provide free internet access to a friends coffee shop.
    Up until now I have set up a 1.2.2 installation with captive portal using one ADSL line and it works just fine.
    Recently he has acquired a second ADSL line.
    All i need is to load balance these two lines and have the captive portal working.
    The captive portal uses local authentication. I dont need VPN, or content filtering or anything else.
    Just load balancing with captive portal.
    Do you think i should use a 1.2.3 snapshot or a 2.0 alpha snapshot?
    As i have read the load balancing "mechanism" has been replaced on 2.0 aplha versions
    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,10407.0.html
    As for the "wan" interfaces themselves i have read here:
    http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi_WAN_/_Load_Balancing
    that they have to be in dhcp mode in order to work.
    I am guessing that they could work in static mode too.Right??  :-\ (what about pppoe? At least one of them…)

    Sorry for these many questions...
    Best regards...  :)

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      Guest
      last edited by May 9, 2009, 5:55 PM

      Do not use 2.0 alpha in production.

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        eri--
        last edited by May 10, 2009, 6:15 AM

        Search the forums especially the one that are for reporting problems to find how to enable CP on 1.2.3 and multiwan.

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          Perry
          last edited by May 10, 2009, 8:41 AM

          I think ermal is referring to this post http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,13844.0.html
          Maybe I should add it to fit123 package.

          /Perry
          doc.pfsense.org

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            mrvanity
            last edited by May 12, 2009, 12:06 PM

            Thanx for the info guys  ;)
            I have installed the RC1 and got load balance working, but captive portal was not working.
            The login page would not show.
            If i enter http://pfsenseip:8000 i can see the login page and proceed from then on normally.
            If i disable the captive portal everything works OK, but the captive portal is a must and i need it.
            Besides this how can i apply this
            http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/chngview?cn=26872
            to a 1.2.3 installation?

            REgards..  :)

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