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    Pfsense 1.2.3 RC2 captive portal problems

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 1.2.3-PRERELEASE-TESTING snapshots - RETIRED
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      900mhzdude
      last edited by

      is there ever going to be a fix for this bug?
      i need pfsense to work with captive portal with about 500 users
      if pfsense cant do it are there any other Routers that can? ???

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        pk
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        You can either a) write a script that deletes the /tmp/captiveportal.lock every 10 seconds.  or b) use m0n0wall.

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          pk
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          #!/bin/sh
          while [ true ]; do
            while [ -f /tmp/captiveportal.lock ]; do
              echo "Deleting captiveportal.lock"
              rm /tmp/captiveportal.lock
              sleep 5
            done
            sleep 30
          done

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            cmb
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            @pk:

            You can either a) write a script that deletes the /tmp/captiveportal.lock every 10 seconds.  or b) use m0n0wall.

            That's the consequence of a bug in previous versions. The locking was replaced entirely in 1.2.3 with semaphores, which fixed many things, but appears to have created some new issues that we have a ticket open on and will be resolved. m0n0wall has locking issues as well, a similar locking replacement is being looked at for it.

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              cmb
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              @900mhzdude:

              when captive portal first starts to crash i get this bug under captive portal status

              Warning: file(/var/db/captiveportal.db): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/www/status_captiveportal.php on line 60 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/status_captiveportal.php on line 61

              and i can get this to repet if you have anything for me to try  :'(

              thanks  :D

              How exactly can you repeat it?

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                900mhzdude
                last edited by

                have about 5 PC's try and re-auth at the same time

                or

                have a PC auth with radius then remove MAC from Radius then let the portal page come up
                put MAC back in Radius and go to a website if you do this in under 1min you will get the error

                or

                just run the Pfsense on a live WISP network and you will get the error within a few days  >:(

                hope that helps please let me know if theres anything more i can do to help :)

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                  cmb
                  last edited by

                  Can you try the latest snapshots? We made a couple changes in the locking. I can't replicate problems, so your help in testing would be much appreciated.

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                    sullrich
                    last edited by

                    Made some more changes..  Please test the next snapshot that should be posted in about 3-4 hours.  Thanks!

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                      sullrich
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                      @cmb:

                      @900mhzdude:

                      when captive portal first starts to crash i get this bug under captive portal status

                      Warning: file(/var/db/captiveportal.db): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/www/status_captiveportal.php on line 60 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/local/www/status_captiveportal.php on line 61

                      and i can get this to repet if you have anything for me to try  :'(

                      thanks  :D

                      How exactly can you repeat it?

                      I just fixed this.  For some brain-dead reason the captive portal enable function was zapping the captiveportal.db and it would not get recreated until the captive portal prune routine was run (every 1 minute).  This would surely cause some issues.

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                        900mhzdude
                        last edited by

                        downloading it now Thanks!  ;D

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                          900mhzdude
                          last edited by

                          using build pfSense-1.2.3-20090921-0655.iso.gz on a live cd

                          is working grate! THANK YOU!  ;D

                          i am not able to get a error so far but will be doing some hard tests on it in the next few days
                          ill keep you updated

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                            sullrich
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                            @900mhzdude:

                            using build pfSense-1.2.3-20090921-0655.iso.gz on a live cd

                            is working grate! THANK YOU!   ;D

                            i am not able to get a error so far but will be doing some hard tests on it in the next few days
                            ill keep you updated

                            Thanks, this is the only thing we are waiting on before releasing RC3.

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                              sullrich
                              last edited by

                              Can we get an update to the problem?  Is the CP still working correctly?

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                                900mhzdude
                                last edited by

                                so far yes but we only have 1 PC on the pfsense box at this time

                                we are having a hard time installing PFsense on our server box

                                supermicro MBD-PDSBM-LN2+-0 with a intel 2.80GHz E6300

                                but this happens with all Pfsense builds so nothing to do with 1.2.3

                                i would say go ahead and release RC3 do to i can not make CP stop working

                                i was going to make sure by putting it live but we are having a hard time with hardware
                                sorry ;(

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                                  sullrich
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                                  OK thanks.

                                  Please start a thread concerning your hardware issues and email me a link.  Thanks. sullrich@gmail.com

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                                    900mhzdude
                                    last edited by

                                    here is the link…i sent it to your e-mail also

                                    http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,19335.msg99576.html#msg99576

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                                      pk
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                                      I installed build 09-22 yesterday, and deployed it on my WISP this morning.  I still see the lock file in /tmp, but I don't see anyone having problems.  I used to see lock errors in the logs, but nothing today.  Seems to be working well.  I currently have about 50 users using the system.

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                                        900mhzdude
                                        last edited by

                                        what do you mean you still see the lock file in /tmp?

                                        do you mean you see it in the tmp folder but is not doing any harm…or being a pain?

                                        thanks

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                                          cmb
                                          last edited by

                                          The lock file will always be there. The locking mechanism was changed again a week or two ago because of a different problem that semaphores caused, due to either PHP or FreeBSD bugs or a combination of the two. The lock file never gets removed, it's either locked or not locked with flock(), its existence has nothing to do with the lock status.

                                          It appears to be good now, RC3 is coming this weekend.

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                                            900mhzdude
                                            last edited by

                                            ok new router up and running with pfsense 1.2.3 RC3 but now…..

                                            is there any way to do CAPTIVE Portal on multiple vlan's???  :'(

                                            we have 19 vlan's and we would like to set it up so that when
                                            someone dose not pay there bill radius will forward them to
                                            a captive portal VLan or something like that.....any ideas?

                                            thanks  :)

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