Our campus is using PfSense to control wireless access to our network via the Captive Portal and becoming very reliant on its operation. I do not want to necessarily become a developer to have technical troubleshooting skills. But I would like to have a document that describes the basics of the Captive Portal operations and was hoping for some links to some detailed design/operational documents other than source code. Questions I have:
1. How does the CP determine if a user needs to be authenticated? 2. Once authenticated, where is the user information kept? 3. I can issue PF and IPFW commands in the shell - Are both used in CP? 4. We have some users that some how disappear from the CP user list, but can still get through to the WAN. How do I debug this? 5. Seems like there are extra entries in the firewall ruleset that keep accumulating and never get removed. How do I clean this up? I have put out a few questions/problems to this list and have not received a single response. We are establishing an account for the commercial support, but we would like to have some local expertise. Thanks for any insight in the Captive Portal's operation. Fred Dziuk The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Systems and Network Operations 210-567-2117
