DHCP Stop Working when captive Portal is enabled

wakasavan

There was one Site where I installed PFSense with Captive Portal.
WAN was PPPOE and LAN was 172.16.0.1/22
everything was very smooth until today
There was a power outage for a long time and once the firewall rebooted the DHCP server gives IP to some users and then stopped working
No IP lease from the DHCP server.
Firewall can be accessed via WAN link but from local interfaced it is not working.
but once I disable the Captive Portal the DHCP was start giving IP and Internet start working.
I repair the the firewall but there is no issue there Also I moved backup to new machine still the same issue.
As long as captive portal enabled no Internet at all.

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free4

@wakasavan is your DHCP server hosted on your pfsense?
If no, is your DHCP in a separate network?(using DHCP relay feature)

Gertjan

The ipfw firewall rules, put in place when the captive portal is activated, start with some rules letting through DHCP traffic. It's part of the default rule set.

When a device is hooked up, can you see DHCP traffic (DHCPDISCOVER) in the pfSense DHCP logs ?
If not, NIC is bad, cable is bad, or some switch device between user and pfSense.

Btw : you should keep LAN for admin purposes, and use a second interface - OPT1 - for the portal.

If remote admining is needed, use OpenVPN

@wakasavan said in DHCP Stop Working when captive Portal is enabled:

As long as captive portal enabled no Internet at all.

That's what a portal should be doing.

@wakasavan said in DHCP Stop Working when captive Portal is enabled:

I repair the the firewall but there is no issue there

What do you man ? You repaired something that wasn't broken ?

@wakasavan said in DHCP Stop Working when captive Portal is enabled:

Firewall can be accessed via WAN link but from local interfaced it is not working.

If a portal is activated on that LAN, then,except for obtaining an IP, nothing should work.
Exception : DNS requests ! Check that. But ok, if the device can't get an IP, all will be down.

@wakasavan said in DHCP Stop Working when captive Portal is enabled:

There was a power outage for a long time

The power of pfSense was shut down using the way it should ? Do you use a UPS ?
The file system is clean ? ( see very recent Netgate video on Youtube).