Captive portal - is it me or is this product not ready?
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First off, I wouldn't bag on the fine folks who develop open-source products. I would simply like an objective view on captive portal on pfSense. Is it ready for the corporation (and it's bitchy people) yet?
This is very common: I'll attempt to access the Internet via our sparkling, new ap on it's vlan with only a path to the DSL gateway to the interwebs. I get the old 'Webpage cannot be displayed' error page. I disable captive portal, reload the browser and Google appears. Yeah.
I enable captive portal, reload the browser, the "Welcome to our Guest Wireless, blah blah" page comes up. Double yeah!
I enter today's voucher-nothing. Please enter your guest voucher here: appears. Not the, "Oops, you screwed that up, do it again" page. No error page, just the same 'enter your voucher" page. The voucher must be a legitimate voucher or I'd get the error page.
Then again, sometimes it works. That's the issue I have; it's just too flakey to put into a live environment. Is there possibly something I'm doing wrong? Is there anyone out there that has experienced this before? Has anyone fixed these type issues.
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At times, it'll work fine. Then I try just a few moments later and I get this in the logs. So, it seems to be fine but I don't get redirected to google.com, and will error out if I try.
logportalauth[99345]: Voucher login good for 120 min.: jdQyjmAz6sZ, , 10.0.99.101
Again, this does not prompt a voucher-page error and seems to be allowing access but navigating the Internet only brings me back to the voucher screen.
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Hi Miles:
I'm not a captive portal user or maintainer, but there is a dedicated forum for it here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?board=2.0
Someone in there might be able to help. You may have tried there already, and if so just ignore this post.
Bill
