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When you have many user on your organization. local user management on pfsense may not easy to manage user. Free radius is user management that better than local user management. It can limit bandwidth per user apply on captive portal, static IP for user, etc.

Captive portal feature is authentication portal before client access to the internet. It check authorization of user to access the internet. You can authentication on captive portal with AD user but first, you must connect fortigate firewall with AD.

When you create devices or group device you can apply it on policy or captive portal. 2 ways to add device on fortigate firewall as detail below; 1. Scan device on your network by using "network device scan" feature on fortigate firewall interface after on feature you ill have device list on your network and you can add new device item now 2. Add MAC address into device item.

Captive portal feature is authentication portal before client access to the internet. It check authorization of user to access the internet. You can authentication on captive portal with AD user but first, you must connect fortigate firewall with AD.

Installation fortigate firewall on VMware via image file for VM. Initial configuration on CLI until access web management and config via web management  Step As Video  

NTP is time server provide time protocol for any system to sync time with NTP effect to any system have same date&time. Many system on the world using difference timezone. When you choose NTP server and then you should select timezone for your location soon. On pfsense can specific NTP server and change timezone for your location. Step As Video  

Sometimes Captive Portal would not show automatic when client access to the internet In my case I found problem about DNS on client. If client have external DNS such as 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 client may attempt to resolve domain from external DNS but client cannot access to the internet affect to captive portal would not show automatic You can solve this problem by use internal DNS or use LAN IP of pfsense   Step As Video

WAN loadbalance is bundles bandwidth of all WAN. It is not increase speed of internet but it balance 2 internet from WAN. Assume, 1 WAN is 1 lane road ,2 WAN are 2 lane road. WAN loadbalance allow traffic on both lane rode. It can support more than car on a road but it cannot increase speed of car. Fail over is function to swap internet between WAN if WAN 1 down fail over will swap all traffic  to WAN 2. Client can continue to access the internet. Step As Video  

Basic installation and configuration pfsense2.4.2 64bits on VMware. Step As Video