Limiters & Captive portal not work together?
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Hi to all, i am using limiters long time now with no problems.. But on a production system having captive portal enabled with bandwidth limit per user trying to set limiters on another interface it cuts all the traffic even pinging the interface itself! (opt3).. Has anyone faced anything similar? I am not suspecting anything else as on the same system in the past (without captive enabled) i have used limiters with sucess...
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Your pfSense version ?
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@Gertjan sorry, tried to edit post but had a limitation and couldn't edit post... My version is 2.6.0 CE..
Also an update, tried on a similar setup same hardware but on version 2.7.0 and there it works fine even with captive portal.. so should i suspect a version bug? I have all the recommended patches applied...
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@gsp said in Limiters & Captive portal not work together?:
I have all the recommended patches applied...
Euh ... imho your wrong.
There was a patch that came out a year or so ago, the completely overhauled the captive portal firewall internally.
Me, for example, I completely forgot about the "how did 2.6.0 captive portal work ?" (these days its all done with "pf", "ipfw", the firewall used for earlier version of pfSense, has been abandoned.
2.6.0 uses ipfw.
2.6.0 worked just fine for me (for a hotel) but I can't remember the small details, though.
There is some one who does : the forum (and you) : If you want to stay with an 'old' version, you have to 'auto support' yourself as the rest goes along with actual version.So : it's time you patch your system.
Why did you mention 2.7.0 ??? Where did you find that ? fact check here : https://www.pfsense.org/download/ -
@Gertjan for the 2.7.0 it was a mistype as i have many installations and i didn't recall right. It is 2.7.1.
Both systems have captive portal working just fine and the first one (2.6.0) runs with 2500 clients flawlessly.... The problem i noticed is if i try to apply any in/out limiters on any other interface than captive portal runs..
On version 2.7.1 which also runs captive portal on a same specs network, limiters are working just fine. I am trying to be up to date but for a hotel as you mentioned i avoid updates during on-season periods as updates could also lead to a disaster sometimes...
So normally if i update the 2.6.0 system, it should work...
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Again, no one is using these versions anymore.
Take pfSense from here : https://www.pfsense.org/download/ - you can trust that site as its the author.
It's 2.7.2.
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@Gertjan thank you for your help. Of course I will upgrade... But I have to wait for the end of the season as I cannot shutdown the system even for 10 minutes with 2500 customers on it.
Have a nice time :)
