<![CDATA[New Install with Multi-WAN/LAN and Captive Portal not passing traffic.]]>Trying to replace my 1.2.3 PFSense CARP Cluster with a new 2.0 PFSense CARP Cluster.

Old setup has single WAN, 2-LAN with one having captive portal.

New Setup is 3 WAN, 2 LAN one with captive portal.

Setup 2 PFSense routers, both will pass traffic on all WAN connections from the LAN network. I have setup CARP on all three WAN interfaces and the appropriate manual NAT rules. Also enabled the Traffic Shaper.

Copy Captive Portal settings from my 1.2.3 PFSense setup, everything looks good. I get the captive portal page, authenticate like I expect and see my mac address and IP in the "Status->Captive Portal" screen. but the computer does not get on the internet. I see some states in the state table so it looks like its traffic is passing.  I don't have any firewall rules, except to get traffic passing as this is still a basic setup.

As soon as I disable captive portal, the computer gets on the internet and works.

I Have enabled the MultiWAN, Traffic Shaper, DHCP Server, Captive Portal and CARP and that's it.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/38273/new-install-with-multi-wan-lan-and-captive-portal-not-passing-trafficRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 11:42:40 GMTSun, 16 Oct 2011 01:29:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to New Install with Multi-WAN/LAN and Captive Portal not passing traffic. on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:12:15 GMT]]>Ok, narrowed this down to a specific setting.

When I uncheck the "Enable per-user bandwidth restriction" traffic passes as expected. When I check the box and my default download is set to 4120 and default upload is 1024 traffic does not pass.  my radius server is set to return wispr-bandwith settings that where working with 1.2.3. these settings are wrong for 2.0.  They need to be multiplied by 1000.

looks like you can't use the same radius server for 1.2.3 and 2.0 if you use wispr to set bandwith.

read http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41372.0.html

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/300346https://forum.netgate.com/post/300346Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:12:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Install with Multi-WAN/LAN and Captive Portal not passing traffic. on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:16:07 GMT]]>I can access the Internet when captive portal is disabled, as soon as its enabled I authenticate but can't pass traffic.

With Captive portal DISABLED.
I can ping all WAN IP's and pinging google.com returns a response. Everything works as expected.

When Captive portal is ENABLED on the same LAN port.
I get the authentication page, then login and nothing passes. I login to PFSense and I see my session in the "Status: Captive Portal" page.

No errors in the "portal auth", "system" or "firewall" log page that jumps out at me.

Its like everything is working, except the captive portal is not passing traffic.

EDIT:
Found this thread, and it sounds like my problem (does not sound like there was a resolution)
http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,37655.0.html

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/300342https://forum.netgate.com/post/300342Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:16:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to New Install with Multi-WAN/LAN and Captive Portal not passing traffic. on Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:08:17 GMT]]>So you can access internet from systems downstream of the non-captive portal interface but not from systems downstream of the captive portal interface?

Are any of your access attempts through the captive portal logged in the firewall log? (See Status ->
System Logs clock on Firewall tab)

What do you see when you ping the IP address of one of the pfSense WAN interfaces? When you ping the IP addresses of the other WAN interfaces?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/300327https://forum.netgate.com/post/300327Sun, 16 Oct 2011 12:08:17 GMT