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    • GertjanG
      Gertjan
      last edited by

      Hummm …

      Right for the '8002' !

      The port will be choses by the redirection in pfSEnse. Visitors don't have to know these details.

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

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      • J
        jbrown
        last edited by

        Thanks.  I will do that.

        What about my issue with my vlan 255 on my cisco 3560 having an ip address of 172.16.255.1 - same ip address as my OPTx interface.

        How does one go about this?  Sorry, very new to all of this.

        thanks again

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        • DerelictD
          Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
          last edited by

          Assign different addresses on the same subnet to your interfaces.

          Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
          A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
          DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
          Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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          • J
            jbrown
            last edited by

            I need to back up a bit….

            When you posted about how it should be at 8002 and not 8000 i was still on pfSense 2.1.5.  I didnt realize until after I posted my last post.  so i did the upgrade (which i lost my squid proxy and content filter, but whatever - was still in trial mode anyways)

            So now that I am upgraded to latest and greatest.  I deleted all my captive portal instances and started a fresh one on a OPTx interface.  I enable it.  It lets me go right to the url i want to go to without going to the redirect page.  i also tried 172.16.255.2:8002/login.php  i get nothing.

            So confused

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            • DerelictD
              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
              last edited by

              Are you behind another router?

              Anything in any of the passthroughs? (IP, Hostname, MAC?)

              Any users listed in Status > Captive Portal??

              Instead of saying what you think you did, how about posting what you've actually done.  Interface config, portal config, firewall rules, etc.

              https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Troubleshooting#Captive_portal_not_redirecting

              Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
              A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
              DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
              Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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              • J
                jbrown
                last edited by

                Ok, forget about my OPTx interfaces, i have another issue with that.

                So I set up captive portal back on my lan interface again and it redirects me to the captive portal page.  however, when i enter a username and password and click continue it just reloads the portal page as if i entered in the username and password wrong.  i have captive portal set to no authentication.  Any help?

                I am getting somewhere thanks to your help, just need a lot of hand holding.  ;D

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                • DerelictD
                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                  last edited by

                  If your browser thinks it's going to the portal page URL, that will happen.  It might also try to redirect you to the page you attempted.  There is a lot to be desired regarding pfSense's CP handling of this.

                  1. After you log in, is there an IP/MAC entry in Status > Captive Portal??
                  2. After you log in, if you manually enter an outside URL, does it work?

                  If you always want to be redirected after login regardless, use the After authentication Redirection URL in the captive portal settings.

                  I would like to see much better handling of the originally attempted URL.  It'd also be nice to have some way to redirect things like the Apple test URLs to something sane too.

                  I have looked at the code and got scared away.

                  In general it works well enough.

                  Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                  A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                  DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                  Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                  • J
                    jbrown
                    last edited by

                    After I log in, yes there is a IP/MAC entry.
                    After I log in, if i manually enter an outside url, no, it does not work.

                    I tried using the after uthentication redirection url - when i logged in, it reloaded the portal page but it changed the redirurl to what it should be.

                    thoughts?

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                    • DerelictD
                      Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                      last edited by

                      "Does not work" gives us nothing to go on.

                      Post your config.  You probably don't have firewall rules for DNS, or wrong DNS servers, or no firewall rules allowing traffic out, or no NAT rules, or ??.  With what we have it'd just be a guess.  Did you go through the list in the link above?

                      Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                      A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                      DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                      Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                      • J
                        jbrown
                        last edited by

                        This use to work before so not sure what happened.

                        when i say does not work, i mean that it will go back to the portal page if i enter an outside url.

                        how do i post config?  just post the whole xml?

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                        • DerelictD
                          Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                          last edited by

                          Screen shots are probably better.  You have something hosed if you get a captive portal entry for the correct IP/MAC pair and keep getting redirected to the portal page when you enter other URLs.  How about just ping?  Can you ping, say, 8.8.8.8 after logging in?

                          Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                          A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                          DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                          Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                          • J
                            jbrown
                            last edited by

                            I cant ping 8.8.8.8 after logging into captive portal.  what screen shots would you want?  thanks again.

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                            • DerelictD
                              Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                              last edited by

                              Captive portal, LAN, LAN Rules, outbound NAT, DHCP Server.

                              Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                              A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                              DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                              Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                              • GertjanG
                                Gertjan
                                last edited by

                                … added to that: what services are running ? (Status => Services) - logs extracts from Stats => System logs => Portal Auth and DHCP (all lines that are related to the Portail Interface - you can remove the others)

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

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                                • DerelictD
                                  Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  If this is squid again I give up.

                                  Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                  A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                  DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                  Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                  • J
                                    jbrown
                                    last edited by

                                    I attached screenshots, hopefully this helps.  i am not using dhcp on pfsense.

                                    captive1.PNG
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                                    lan1.PNG
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                                    lanrules.PNG
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                                    outboundnat.PNG
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                                    portalauth.PNG
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                                    services.PNG
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                                    • DerelictD
                                      Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                      last edited by

                                      And if you open a browser after authentication and enter www.cnn.com from host 04:7d:7b🆎1c:7f / 172.16.1.184 you get the portal page again?

                                      Let me spin up a quick captive portal on "pfSense B" LAN (diagram in the sig) and see what's what.

                                      Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                      A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                      DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                      Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                      • DerelictD
                                        Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                        last edited by

                                        Works fine here.

                                        $ ipfw -x 2 list
                                        65291 allow pfsync from any to any
                                        65292 allow carp from any to any
                                        65301 allow ip from any to any layer2 mac-type 0x0806,0x8035
                                        65302 allow ip from any to any layer2 mac-type 0x888e,0x88c7
                                        65303 allow ip from any to any layer2 mac-type 0x8863,0x8864
                                        65307 deny ip from any to any layer2 not mac-type 0x0800,0x86dd
                                        65310 allow ip from any to { 255.255.255.255 or 172.26.2.1 } in
                                        65311 allow ip from { 255.255.255.255 or 172.26.2.1 } to any out
                                        65312 allow icmp from { 255.255.255.255 or 172.26.2.1 } to any out icmptypes 0
                                        65313 allow icmp from any to { 255.255.255.255 or 172.26.2.1 } in icmptypes 8
                                        65314 pipe tablearg ip from table(3) to any in
                                        65315 pipe tablearg ip from any to table(4) in
                                        65316 pipe tablearg ip from table(3) to any out
                                        65317 pipe tablearg ip from any to table(4) out
                                        65318 pipe tablearg ip from table(1) to any in
                                        65319 pipe tablearg ip from any to table(2) out
                                        65532 fwd 127.0.0.1,8002 tcp from any to any dst-port 80 in
                                        65533 allow tcp from any to any out
                                        65534 deny ip from any to any
                                        65535 allow ip from any to any

                                        $ ipfw -x 2 table 1 list
                                        172.26.2.100/32 mac 8a:7c:f4:f8:e1:6f 2000

                                        $ ipfw -x 2 table 2 list
                                        172.26.2.100/32 mac 8a:7c:f4:f8:e1:6f 2001

                                        Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                        A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                        DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                        Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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                                        • J
                                          jbrown
                                          last edited by

                                          Correct, I get the login page again and i cant ping anything.

                                          any suggestions?

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                                          • DerelictD
                                            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            Sorry.  No idea.  What's the output of those commands on your system when a client is connected?  SSH or Diagnostics > Command Prompt.

                                            Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
                                            A comprehensive network diagram is worth 10,000 words and 15 conference calls.
                                            DO NOT set a source address/port in a port forward or firewall rule unless you KNOW you need it!
                                            Do Not Chat For Help! NO_WAN_EGRESS(TM)

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