On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I run pfSense on a few ALIX boxes, usually as tunnel end and as access > point. When I can plug one of these machines into any (wired) network, I > have easy access to my home network through the private WLAN the ALIX > provides. > > This works beautifully. > > I travel a lot and today hotels only provide WLAN access. Ethernet ports in > hotel rooms are relics of the past. > > I solved this problem by using a Mac to connect to the Hotel WLAN and then > select "Share my Intenet (WLAN) connection to Ethernet" in the "Sharing" > control panel. When I then connect the ALIX WAN interface to my Mac using a > cable, things again work nicely, but I effectively block a Mac as router > that I would rather carry around. > > My thought was "throw a second ALIX box at the problem and make that one > connect as client to the hotel's WLAN", then plug the two ALIX's together > with a short cable. > > I did try this, hacking the hotel's WLAN details into the WLAN interface > configuration of the second ALIX (configured to use "Infrastructure" mode, > of course), but the WLAN interface always stays down, no matter what I try. > > My hope was that the the hotel's captive portal mechanism could be fooled to > give access to my client ALIX from any client computer connected to AP > provided by ALIX number 1, but as the client ALIX's WLAN is always down, I > didn't even make it to this point. > > > Did anyone here successfully do this (and share some insights)? >
Definitely doable. I've done it in about every combination imaginable. ALIX or similar hardware with a wifi card, a pfSense VM on a laptop with a LTE card via USB passthrough, same for wifi USB. Ethernet bridged to a VM on a laptop. Some ugly combinations of those where multiple layers of NAT were necessary before the traffic left my equipment, but was fine as a temporary hack. For connecting to captive portal networks, everything behind it will look like one device as far as their network is concerned, as you're NATing everything to the same source IP and MAC. How do you have the wireless interface configured for standard and channel? What wireless card are you using? _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
