Topics

1

15.1 Legacy Series / One suggestion for OpnSense - a pane on the main page for messages.

« on: June 16, 2015, 05:05:32 pm »

One suggestion.
On the main OpnSense web page dashboard, I think a reserved window pane of a few lines of information from the OpnSense team which automatically show up on the main dashboard could be a neat thing.

Lets say there is an announcement or something, if the OpnSense dashboard could auto check and grab a brief message, then you have a pretty neat method of quickly getting info to administrators who manage OpnSense without the need to daily check these forums.  This could be an administrator off or on or manual poll selectable feature.

My 1st two cents.

2

General Discussion / Captive Portal - Migrating from PfSense - questions

« on: June 16, 2015, 02:36:57 am »

Hello everybody.  I am brand spanking new to this OpnSense forum.  I have high hopes for OpnSense

I have used PfSense Captive Portal for many years now and because of issues I have been experiencing with the other CP, I am trying to build on OpnSense and get a Captive Portal running.

Here is some back ground info:
#1 - WAN & LAN * Opt_FreeRadius  (three networks - the "Opt_FreeRadius" is a 3rd network just for talking to my FreeRadius servers.
#2 - Captive Portal users to authenticate using Radius is about 120 to 500 simultaneous Ethernet connected users.
#3 - I use bandwidth control for up & down from FreeRadius so that Captive Portal can rate-limit client speeds.
#4 - No NAT - all LIve IPs
#5 - I currently run about 6 different Captive Portal systems.

I am having some problems with CP and I have check and rechecked my CP settings.

Question #1 - Is CP operational at this time using external FreeRadius servers?
Question #2 - Does CP support the three networks the way I described my network?
Question #3 - How stable is the CP with Radius at this time?

---  The reason I am changing form PfSense Captive Portal to OpnSense Captive Portal is for the following reason:
PfSense appears to be having problems not authentication all users to the FreeRadius servers.  I have verified and rebuild and re-verified my FreeRadius servers are correct.  It just appears that PfSense Captive Portal has problems authenticating a large user network and some MAC address will not get checked - thus I have been having to put some users in the PfSense MAC pass-through.  (Again - I have verified everything I can think of many many times).  I suspect my problems are a potential but with PfSense CP.  Thus the reason I am asking my above questions about stability and load handeling ability of OpnSense Captive Portal.

Note - I hope and with the programming staff for OpnSense and all users using OpnSense great success with this new platform

I look forward to your responses - thank you

North Idaho Tom Jones