I’ve been working on getting CoovaChilli running on FreeBSD 10 the past few weeks. The first problem was that the source code would not build. FreeBSD 10 shipped with clang instead of GCC as the default compiler which is not as forgiving as GCC, clang flagged up lots of issues with the code base such as lack of parameters for functions, one change needed which was a shortcoming of clang itself was the lack of support for nested functions.
The other problem was that CoovaChilli was using a structure that had been marked as deprecated in Net/Free/OpenBSD/Darwin for quite some time & with the release of 10.0, FreeBSD removed this structure from their codebase. This resulted in the tun(4) interface being initialised but no IP address being assigned to it, which was interesting, dhcp responses were still going out but obviously nothing could talk back to the IP address that coova was configured to be listening on (uamlisten).
All BSDs & derivatives were separated out from Linux in dev_set_address(), Linux was set to use the pre-existing method & the BSD & derivatives were switch to use the “new” ifaliasreq structure.
With these change, it’s possible for a client connected to a router running CoovaChilli to visit sites listed in uamallowed. These are sites which CoovaChilli allows to be browsed without needing authentication through the captive portal first. Next stage is to get the captive portal running along with a RADIUS server so that the previous revision of the setup guide can be updated. With the release of FreeRADIUS 3 configuration has changed somewhat, hence the old documentation for version 2 doesn’t necessarily apply.
These changes so far only allow the code to build without any features enabled, for example, enabling OpenSSL support yielded more errors which have not been fixed yet & I suspect others will show up as more options are switched on.
The work so far can be found here