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    Using CP on OPT interface with wireless AP?

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      danbutter
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      will do, but in the meantime I have even more weirdness to report.

      Ok this box has 4 nics and therefore 2 OPT interfaces.
      Just messing around I left the OPT1 that I had named CP alone. No changes at all.

      I then enabled the OPT2 interface.
      Gave it an IP of 192.168.33.1
      went to the DHCP server put that IP as the dns and set a range from 192.168.33.22 to .55
      Went to firewall > rules and this time set ANY rather than leaving it at TCP.
      Plugged in the wireless and it worked!
      Tried with computer and the crossover cable and it worked!

      I thought great! it works, but…
      I used a usb wireless adapter  on my main computer.  I would switch between them in network connections by disabling one and using the other one to test the wireless.

      Well... when I went to switch back to the wired nic which should be LAN I got an IP from the OPT2 interface!
      I tried to release and renew...same IP.  I tried to use flushdns in between there...same IP.
      I rebooted the machine...same IP.
      I went to another PC on the network that still had a valid lease and got into the web interface and turned off the OPT2 interface...same IP.
      I then turned it back on, went to the DHCP server for OPT2 and disabled it.

      Now I can get an IP for the LAN as I am supposed to.

      I'm starting to think my pfsense box is haunted.

      sending the config in a couple mins here.

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        jeroen234
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        @danbutter:

        Ok, I documented everything I did as I did it so that someone can hopefully tell me what I did wrong.

        Ok then I then changed the name of the OPT1 interface to CP, changed it's IP to 192.168.11/24, enabled it and clicked on save.

        Thanks for any help anyone can give me here.

        i hope you meen 192.168.11.1/24

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          danbutter
          last edited by

          yes, I did mean 192.168.11.1/24.

          Good catch though.

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            danbutter
            last edited by

            Just to update this, I was able to do the same thing on the OPT1 interface.
            I changed the IP to a /16 rather than /24 and changed the firewall rule to ANY rather than just TCP and it works.

            However the DHCP server for the OPT interface still takes over my LAN clients.
            I have to turn off the DHCP server for the OPT interface to get the one on the LAN interface to work again.
            Strange.

            hoba…Did you get the config.xml that I sent to you?

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              hoba
              last edited by

              Didn't get anything yet.

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                danbutter
                last edited by

                well, I sent it out on the 16th so I either typed something wrong or maybe your email doesn't like hotmail?

                Either way I am attaching it now.
                I don't think there is anything private in there.

                config.xml.txt

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                  hoba
                  last edited by

                  Ok, I'll test it with one of my systems soon.

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                    danbutter
                    last edited by

                    Ok thanks.
                    No hurry. 
                    I won't be messing with the box till next year at this point anyway.

                    I do believe that I will do a fresh install of 1.0.1 though as there are things like the shaper wizard that are broken for me in the snapshot.
                    I also keep getting a very strange thing where some computers on my network will only get between 5 and 6MB to the internet while others get 20Mb….it isn't all the time....just strange.
                    So I think a fresh install is in order after the holidays.

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                      greyman
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                      Ok. Just installed 1.0.1 on a 4801-60. All is working fine. for me until I enable captive portal (CP). I basically have my network configured the same way. Here is what I have

                      sis0: LAN:  192.168.0.1/25
                      sis1: WAN: DHCP (Public IP Supplied by SBC DSL Modem)
                      sis2: OPT:  192.168.0.129/25 (Airport wireless Network with WDS)

                      sis0 is running a DHCP server for the LAN clients
                      sis2 is running a DHCP server for the users that are wireless

                      all this works before enabling CP. Once I enable CP the browser never gets redirected to the CP to allow me to authenticate.

                      any ideas?

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                        hoba
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                        @hoba:

                        …you need to use the interface IP of the captive portal enabled interface as DNS server for the redirect to work and to bring up the CP page....

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                          greyman
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                          After reading thru the thread before posting by post I had noticed that and have set it up accordingly. The DHCP server that assigns IP addresses on that interface assigns the interface as the primary DNS server.

                          Still NO go.  ;-(

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