Captive portal just wont work–-pls help
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hi
Thank you for viewing this thread….i recently started checking out pfsense, am trying to configure a captive portal interface but if just refused to work. i can browse internet when i disable captive portal on the interface but when ever i enable it i can receive dhcp settings automatically from the interface but it wont browse or show the captive portal interface at all. i followed the tutorial on setting of cp on this site, but it has refused to work for me. pls help. -
You have to use the pfSense dns forwarder for this to work (services>dns forwarder) and assign this as dns server to your clients via dhcp (default if dns fields are empty unless you have disabled the dns forwarder completely).
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I have captive portal working on my home system as well as a wireless ISP business I do consulting for.
Are you using pfSense 1.2 full version?
What is the link to the tutorial you are using for Captive Portal?
With captive portal are you using port 80 or 443? I recommend first getting it to work with port 80.
Are you running captive portal on the LAN ethernet interface or from a Wireless interface? -
Hi
Thanks –-- i have got cp working by enabling the dns forwarder. -
As an additional data point, you can also add the DNS servers to pass through to accomplish the same thing if you're so inclined.
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