Can't ping through pfsense when captive portal is activated
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Hi,
When I enable captive portal on pfsense, I'm no longer able to ping hosts located behind pfsense.
Below my architecture example:
(Computer) ==============> WAN (Pfsense) WAN ================> (router) =====> (Host: 8.8.8.8)
In this configuration, I can't ping 8.8.8.8 from Computer. If I disable captive portal, works again.
Thank for you help.
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Well yeah until you auth to the captive portal or your mac is authorized pre then yeah you are blocked - the whole purpose of the captive portal ;)
You could always whitelist your PC if you don't want it to have to auth to captive portal.
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Hi,
Thanks for you reply.
Unfortunately, it happens even if I'm auth to the captive portal.
I don't think that it's due to a firewall rule because it doesn't happen when captive portal is deactivated so I don't understand.
In my configuration I have only one NIC set as "WAN" (don't know if it could create trouble)
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So you have wan and wan?? Just noticed your drawing.. Doesn't work that way..
One would be a WAN other would be a LAN..
Your PC would be connected to LAN and the internet side would be connected to WAN..
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And more : the captive portal only runs on a LAN type interface (LAN, OPT1, etc).
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Thanks again for you replies.
Below my architecture.
.My PC's GW is pfsense and my pfsense's GW is my router.
I have only one NIC interface. This NIC is assigned as a WAN interface.
Captive portal works fine (authentication + log with squid) except the ping issue.
So you recommend me to use 2 NIC interfaces, as show below, isn't it?
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Thanks for your answer.
I've tested with a 2 NICs computer and ping can passthrough pfsense.
