Hey Olivier

Any thoughts how I could get this resolved? I am possibly going to
expand testing to more OSX machines.

http://packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1423 As you have shown seems
like this is my issue.

Regards,
Thomas

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Carl "Thomas" Guething <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> On 05/03/2012 12:03 PM, Carl "Thomas" Guething wrote:
>> > Oliver I just gave this a shot.
>> >
>> > I am going todo some testing but it did not seem to resolve my issue...
>> > but I am going todo some more extensive testing.
>> >
>> > Here is a rundown of what I tried and my results, please excuse my poor
>> > formatting.
>> >
>> > I de-registered my laptop. Restarted PF.
>> > Connected my laptop, opened Chrome pointed to yahoo.com
>> > <http://yahoo.com>
>> > Authenticated to the captive portal, and the internet check failed.
>> > quickly opened two tabs one to google.com <http://google.com> and one to
>> > yahoo.com <http://yahoo.com>
>> > Neither loaded.
>> > Both these hosts seem to resolve to the PF, as pinging them resolved
>> > them to 192.X ... however quick nslookup shows my productions dns server
>> > is returning the proper IP. Chrome/Ping continued to not resolve these
>> > hosts until I restarted pf, I waited about 2 minutes. (Shortly after I
>> > tried these two hosts everything started working)
>>
>> Based on what you describe, I think this is the exact issue as described
>> in: http://packetfence.org/bugs/view.php?id=1423
>>
>> However with OSX we haven't been able to reliably reproduce the issue.
>> In fact, on a 10.6 we don't have the problem (or we had it once out of 6
>> tests to be exact). Could you re-do the test but take a packet capture
>> while doing so?
>>
>> On OSX you can perform packet captures with Wireshark or tcpdump but
>> you'll have to do them as root (through sudo). Let me know if you need
>> additional instructions.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Olivier Bilodeau
>> [email protected]  ::  +1.514.447.4918 *115  ::  www.inverse.ca
>> Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu) and PacketFence
>> (www.packetfence.org)
>
>
> Afternoon Again Olivier
>
> Attached I have 4 packet captures,
> 01,02 - as discussed
> 03    - I used safari instead of Chrome - Safari seemed to handle this
> better but I still had issues, but seemed speedier than chrome
> 04    - I replugged the ethernet cable very quickly after I authenticated
> (while PF page tests network)
>
> Replugging the device seems to solve all issues. I am beginning to wonder if
> this will be an acceptable work around for a small deployment. I should
> receive some better wireless equipment in the next weeks to test out vlan
> isolation.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Thomas
>

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