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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...
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.
My configuration i run 3 vlans. So each vlan has their own DHCP server for the separate vlans.
DHCP server is handled by pfsense router only, nothing else.
Noted that the switch ip given by DHCP is within the same subnet as the desktop pc trying to access netgear managed web UI. I know this because i use the netgear network detection tool to detect the switch and see the ip assigned to it.
Also the odd thing is, if i set the switch to a static ip in the netgear admin web ui, that works fine. and fyi to access it, i have to use the asus router to do so, since pfsense doesn't work using dhcp.... so everytime for initial setup i have to use the asus router in order to set the static ip.
at one point i thought it may work if i set a static ip from pfsense router. it assigns the ip, but still same issue it can't access the web ui.
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