Captive portal with cisco WLC
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I'm setting up a captive portal for an open SSID on serveral Cisco controllers. I'm currently using v1.2.3 and am wondering if I have the interfaces set up properly. The goal is to have one interface set up for management from my internal network and possibly 1 or 2 WLANS use the captive portal for Radius authentication when visiting a web site. The WLAN currently has a separate DNS and DHCP servers and I'd prefer not to use PfSense for those functions. My current interface setup is as follows:
10.1.2.22
WAN (internal network)
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PfSense
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LAN (WLAN Sits in Cisco Firewall context)
172.1.2.14I've previously set up v2RC3 and had no issues but I only used the WAN interface but seem to be having more issues with 1.2.3. I have no interest in using the firewall functions of PfSense at this point. Whats the best way to set this up?
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I've had good results with captive portal from 2.0 RC3 snapshot builds.
I've not used captive portal from 1.2.3.
Are you reluctant to use 2.0 because its still release candidate status?
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Yes but I'm not opposed using v2RC3 if it's stable and works well. Will I need to set my wireless controllers default gateway to the pfsense LAN IP address?
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Will I need to set my wireless controllers default gateway to the pfsense LAN IP address?
I'm not familiar with those wireless controllers but I would guess:
No if the wireless controller gets its "WAN" IP address from pfSense by DHCP.
Yes if you have configured a static IP address on the wireless controller's "WAN" interface.One problem with using snapshot builds is that there might be a temporary bug introduced as part of a fix for a different. I've had good results with the official RC3 built Tue Jun 21 17:40:54 EDT 2011 and with the snapshot build in file pfSense-Full-Update-2.0-RC3-i386-20110719-2331.tgz