PfSense Captive Portal. Get rid of the boring default pfSense display and swap it out for a pretty and responsive page. Vanilla - Source - Example. Azmind - Source - Example. Log into your pfSense dashboard and go to Services Captive Portal. Captive Portal authentication profile 2. If a Captive Portal is required for users to gain access to the wireless network, can it redirect unauthenticated devices to a webpage of our choosing until they decide to go to one of their choosing and then get redirected to the Captive Portal page?
The Captive Portal function in pfSense® software allows securing anetwork by requiring a username and password (or only a click through),entered on a portal page.
Authentication can be performed using pfSense the pfSense built-in user management,or an external authentication server such as a RADIUS server or anLDAP server.
Tip
The best source of captive portal information can be found in the pfSense Book.
Captive Portal can be configured from Services > Captive Portal, where Zonescan be created or updated.
Captive portal Zone allow for the creation of separate, independentportals that operate on one or more separate interfaces. For example,there could be a zone for Wireless and a zone for Wired. Each zone has acompletely isolated set of pages, configuration, users, etc.
One zone may be used by multiple interfaces, but an interface can be bound to only onezone.
When creating a captive portal zone, several tabs are available for the captive portal setup,each described below:
Captive Portal Tab¶
General management of captive portal setup and authentication. Eachoption is described in detail on the page
Pass-Through MAC Tab¶
Allows managing a list of MACaddresses which are allowed to bypass the portal.
These MAC addresses will bypass the portal authentication.
Allowed IP addresses¶
Allows managing a list of IPaddresses which can either:
- Always connect from behind the portal (clients)
- Always allow clients to an IP address (external servers)
These IP addresses will bypass the portal authentication in thedirection specified.
Vouchers¶
One-time use portal access codes, described in more detail in:Captive Portal Vouchers.
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File Manager¶
Allows management of the fileswhich can be used to make up the contents of the captive portalauthentication/click-through page.