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    Abnormal IP address in captive portal

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    • C Offline
      cmb
      last edited by

      What are the contents of /var/db/captiveportal.db?

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      • K Offline
        kloon
        last edited by

        Would you mind to guide how to check the particular file?

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          cmb
          last edited by

          Go to Diag>Command and run:

          cat /var/db/captiveportal.db

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          • K Offline
            kloon
            last edited by

            sorry for the late reply, the problem does not appear again until today.

            this is the content of /var/db/captiveportal.db

            ,cd4e0e5cac5b2548,Y2Fyb2x5bjk3OTE=,,,

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            • GertjanG Offline
              Gertjan
              last edited by

              'Normal' content is
              $ cat /var/db/captiveportal.db
              1281899223,10004,192.168.2.160,00:26:08:yy:xx:ii,105,405ce45ef655491c,,,,
              1281899536,10005,192.168.2.173,d8:30:62:yy:xx:ii,105,e44437ff909ce274,,,,
              1281902318,10006,192.168.2.150,90:4c:e5:ii:yy:xx,205,2742c8beaaa25b21,,,,
              1281941548,10003,192.168.2.165,f8:1e:df:ii:yy:xx,114,a55ab8690b33af7a,,,,

              (just an example of my captiveportal.db file right now)

              Looks like the time stamp, IP, index and USER ID are missing.

              Strange.

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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              • K Offline
                kloon
                last edited by

                I have normal content in captive portal too, but sometimes the abnormal address appear in the portal randomly.

                $ cat /var/db/captiveportal.db
                ,23c94761e47d958f,c2lsdmVyd2F0ZXI4,,,
                ,5b856ac5e01c8a86,cmhnanBhcmk=,,,
                1282000190,10000,192.168.0.1,1c:4b:d6:11:22:33,abc123,4a8c88399ded7095,cmFmZjg5MDQyOQ==,,,
                1282000315,10001,192.168.0.12,90:84:0d:44:55:66,def456,26fa9255b49fcc6a,eXBwaHBpZWU=,,,

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                • GertjanG Offline
                  Gertjan
                  last edited by

                  Some how, the database $cpdb (list with all the connected clients) fails to write correctly to your disk.
                  Destroyed in memory ?

                  On what are you running pfSense ?

                  I would re-install from scratch.

                  No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
                  Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                  • E Offline
                    eri--
                    last edited by

                    How many concurrent users make this bug show??

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                    • K Offline
                      kloon
                      last edited by

                      It happen in a random number of users. Sometimes happen in 40+ users, sometimes it happen in 300+ users. But I do not sure when it happen since I refresh the Portal page once a while.

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                      • K Offline
                        kloon
                        last edited by

                        appreciate that anyone can help into this matter.

                        Thank you very much.

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                        • C Offline
                          cmb
                          last edited by

                          Not a common issue, we support loads of CP environments and never seen that. The back end handling of CP is much improved in 2.0, and it's throughly tested and used in numerous serious production environments (ISPs and others). You may want to try it and see if that changes anything. Somehow it's missing some data on the back end in rare circumstances, and that may well be fixed.

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                            kloon
                            last edited by

                            Thank you for your reply. We will try it out once stable version of 2.0 release.

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