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I am trying to get the Captive Portal working on Mac osx. When using wifi to connect to my server, I get the expected wispr request to http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html - however, using an USB to Ethernet adapter, I only receive requests for http://init-p01st.push.apple.com/bag on my machine on the other side of the USB to Ethernet. No matter what I return or where I redirect, there is no poup automatically opening like it is for Wifi.

Is osx even capable of Captive Portal when using USB to Ethernet adapters? Or do I need a special apple adapter for that?

By the way, I already got it working on Windows machines with USB to Ethernet.

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There's nothing special about "USB to Ethernet"-adapters regarding captive portals. Having a "special Apple adapter" will not help you in that regard.

You must find the error in your system somewhere else.

Actually I'm not even sure that Mac OS X looks for captive portals on wired networks. As far as I recall, the Captive Network Assistant is only activated for wireless networks. Your USB adapter would count as a wired network.

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  • Thank you for your answer - and yes, that's exactly what I'm afraid of. Windows supports Captive Portal even in wired mode - for osx, I can't find anything about that. Everyone is only telling about wispr which is definitely a wireless thingy. The request that I'm seeing (init-p01st.push.apple.com/bag) doesn't seem to be related to the Captive Portal but more about iCloud / iMessage.
    – David Müller
    Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:15
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    Yes, init-p01st.push.apple.com is used for Push Notifications (can be any type of notification for various apps, not just iMessages). It hasn't got anything to do with captive portals.
    – jksoegaard
    Commented May 12, 2014 at 19:52
  • Is this still the case (that OSX doesn't support looking for captive portals on wired networks)?
    – R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE
    Commented Apr 2, 2021 at 23:24

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