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Mooglestiltzkin's avatar
May 29, 2023
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DHCP not working?

I use a Netgear Smart switch, but i use the local managed mode.   I have a weird issue, when i factory reset, it uses DHCP by default which is fine.   But oddly dhcp doesn't work when using my pf...
  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    May 29, 2023

    Mooglestiltzkin 

     

    It is a pfSense issue, not NETGEAR. Your ASUS router is VLAN-unaware so it works well with your NETGEAR switch in its factory default settings. However, you’ve created VLANs on your pfSense router. The pfSense port you were using needs to be added to the VLAN as an untagged member.

     

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