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      tommysense
      last edited by

      Hello everybody,

      I´m using pfsense 2.1.3 and i am very surprised of this little powerful firewall. But now, here is my first problem. I configured the captive portal as mentioned in serveral boards and to do´s - not a big thing. Created a user and a group with logon credentials. Now when i try to logon over the standard portal login site it won´t direct me to the login page. I start my browser - and the standard website will pop up. Only if i type 192.168.1.1:8000 pfsense shows me the standard login page - user and password will match. Firewall rules also. Has anybody an idea where my failure is? Maybe DNS settings? My WAN port is connected via DHCP to a router. There are two wireless access points connected to my Lan port over a switch.

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan
        last edited by

        Hello.

        Can you list some more info.
        Like:
        Before using your AP's hooked up to the switch, did you tried to use your portal using directly the switch (with RJ45 cable) ?
        Your WAN is WAN, LAN is LAN and portail interface is on interface OPT1, right ?

        What is your WAN IP, LAN IP and OPT1 (portal IP) ?
        OPT1 (portal) firewall rules ?

        What portal authentication are you using ?

        What were the setting you used to activate the portal interface ?

        You has a look over here https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal_Setup ?
        Or here https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=portal ?

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          tommysense
          last edited by

          Hello Gertjan,

          thanks for your reply - finally i was able to solve my problem by myself - after hours :)
          My problem was the DNS forwarding and the correct entry of the DNS server. So i was able to ping 8.8.8.8 but not google.com.
          I could reach the captive portal via IP but not via name. After setting the correct entries it was working fine.

          Regards
          tommysense

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