Captive Portal Basics

[newest_newbie]

Hello folks.

Well sometimes the basic it's harder than the complex.

I was able to run captive portal, block access and so on.

My problem is the understanding of basic of Captive Portal Vouchers.

I understood PF will generate a list of vouchers.
But I don't see where to get it.

At the config it asks for :

"Synchronize Voucher Database IP - IP address of master nodes webConfigurator to synchronize voucher database and used vouchers from.
NOTE: this should be setup on the slave nodes and not the primary node!"

Should I have an MySql server or something to get these vouchers ?
What is a master node ?
WebConfigurator looks is the web interface that I am already accessing, right ?

And after all, how to get the list ?

A bit confusing to me.

TIA

[The Computer Guy]

When you create the voucher roll, have a look at the three icons to the right of the roll. One of these lets you download the vouchers as a .csv file :)

[newest_newbie]

OK Good ! I found it.  :D

To generate the voucher I must enable it.

Services/ Captive Portal / MY PORTAL / Vouchers

Create, Generate and Activate Rolls with Vouchers
Enable            X    Enable the creation, generation and activation of rolls with vouchers

If I do it, it says :
**The following input errors were detected:

The field Synchronize Voucher Database IP is required.
    The field Sync port is required.**

Any tips ?

[Gertjan]

@newest_newbie:

OK Good ! I found it.  :D
To generate the voucher I must enable it.

Services/ Captive Portal / MY PORTAL / Vouchers

Create, Generate and Activate Rolls with Vouchers
Enable            X    Enable the creation, generation and activation of rolls with vouchers

Exact.
If you want to use vouchers, you should activate the voucher sub-system first.
Only then the rest of the page "Create, Generate and Activate Rolls with Vouchers" becomes visible.

@newest_newbie:

If I do it, it says :
**The following input errors were detected:

The field Synchronize Voucher Database IP is required.
    The field Sync port is required.**
Any tips ?

You only fill in this part : "Voucher Database Synchronization" if you want to have the vouchers subsystem synchronized with another pfSense installation (which is quit rare as a setup). In your case, leave all entries empty in this section. As explained, the current system should be a 'slave' of the (other) 'master' setup.

Btw : I think that you never filled in what so ever, but our 'intelligent' browser will auto-fill some entries - check always everything before you validate a page.

[newest_newbie]

Btw : I think that you never filled in what so ever, but our 'intelligent' browser will auto-fill some entries - check always everything before you validate a page.

I didn't try to mess with cookies and stuff like that - just changed from my loved Firefox to Microsoft Edge… and it worked.
There should be something wrong.

So I decided to show all my steps just in case.

STEP 1 - CREATE CAPTIVE PORTAL ZONE >>> X - Enable Captive Portal

INTERFACES - OPT1
AUTHENTICATION METHOD - X LOCAL USER MANAGER/VOUCHERS
Click SAVE - OK

STEP 2 - ACTIVATE VOUCHERS Click over EDIT CREATED CAPTIVE PORTAL
Click over VOUCHERS

Enable    X - Enable the creation, generation and activation of rolls with vouchers
Click SAVE - OK

STEP 3 - CREATE AND GENERATE A VOUCHER ROLL Click over VOUCHER ROLLS
Click over ADD

Roll # - 0 (zero)
Minutes per ticket - 10 (minutes only)
Count - 5 (vouchers code)
Click SAVE - OK - Voucher created - a new roll line appear at screen
Click GENERATE - a button besides - asked for where to save a .csv file with vouchers codes - OK

STEP 4 - CUSTOMIZE CAPTIVE PORTAL PAGE Click over EDIT CREATED CAPTIVE PORTAL

Created a custom file VOUCHER.HTML to only ask voucher code

ENTER YOU VOUCHER

<form method="post" action="$PORTAL_ACTION$">
        <======= DELETED THIS LINE FROM SAMPLE
    <======= DELETED THIS LINE FROM SAMPLE

</form>

===============
Look down for HTML Page Contents / Portal page contents
Click over SEARCH and load voucher.html

Click SAVE - OK

5 - TEST It worked fine

Thanks to all the community again !!!