How to setup Captive Portal for my wireless access point?

gjaltemba

My captive portal setup was for a RUN interface with a USB adapter. Since 2.1.2 update any wireless client connection will crash pfsense. I have replaced the USB adapter with wireless access point. It has a IP on the lan.

dotdash

Easiest way would be to plug the WAP into a separate interface and run CP on that interface.

gjaltemba

Thank you for your help.

A separate interface is the easy way but I am trying to avoid the need to run a new cable also.

Gertjan

:P
Typically, between the OPT1 "captive portal interface" and the AP you need a network cable.
If a USB-dongle-AP was doing ok for you (it was stuck in the pfSense box), I advise to use a 10 inch (30 cm RJ45) cable or even less ;)

Most of us have a LAN interface running on 192.168.1/24 - so use the OPT1 interface on 192.168.2/24 - The OPT will have a 192.168.2.1 and your AP (running in AP mode) should have 192.168.2.2
When configuring the portal service, add the MAC and/or IP to the "pass-through-MAC" and "Allowed IP Addresses", so the AP can sync freely with NTP etc.
The DHCP server on the portal interface should distribute IP starting from 192.168.2.3 and higher.

gjaltemba

Thank you for your help. Good tip on adding pass-through-MAC for WAP

My USB dongle AP was working in 2.1 but in 2.1.2 any client connection will crash pfsense. I have a virtualized environment so the simplest for me now would be to setup 2.1 just to run CP with a USB dongle and see how that goes.