[pfSense Support] Gentoo Rsync allowed past the Captive Portal

[Frimmel, Ivan \(ISS South Africa\)]

HI all   So I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out why I couldn’t emerge a new Gentoo box on my network, weirdly enough emerge ---sync managed to get through the captive portal … but then when it came time to d/l via ftp or wget it would start downloading and then the files would fail on MD5 hash after the “ download “ had completed.. I eventually realized what was going on when I did an update last night to 0.84 and saw the “foreign” machine being captured by the portal. I quickly added a captive portal mac passthrough rule and all the MD5 checksum errors when away. But why did pf let the rsync stuff through and why did it look like it was downloading stuff, all be it rubbish ? Was it just downloading the captive portal redirect URL all the time and padding the files out with the contents?   Regards,   Ivan Frimmel. HP South Africa - Sales Specialist, Industry Standard Servers Mobile: +27 83 409 2077 Direct:  +27 11 785 1052 E-Mail and MSN Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED]