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      macmagic
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      Hi all,

      Im new to PFsense and have a test box on my home network which Im playing around with to get a feel for it.

      My network is like so:

      Unifi Security Gateway : Router, DHCP, Firewall, VLAN's etc
      PFSense: Firewall Off, DHCP Relay, DNS Forwarder

      DHCP : Gateway and DNS set to PfSense

      So, is there any way to get PFSense captive portal to work without enabling the DHCP server on PFSense itself. I would like to have the Captive Portal operate on a VLAN which the USG creates?

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        macmagic
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        Anyone?

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          YMOSTA
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          Is there an answer?!

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            gsa-tech
            last edited by

            @macmagic:

            Hi all,

            Im new to PFsense and have a test box on my home network which Im playing around with to get a feel for it.

            My network is like so:

            Unifi Security Gateway : Router, DHCP, Firewall, VLAN's etc
            PFSense: Firewall Off, DHCP Relay, DNS Forwarder

            DHCP : Gateway and DNS set to PfSense

            So, is there any way to get PFSense captive portal to work without enabling the DHCP server on PFSense itself. I would like to have the Captive Portal operate on a VLAN which the USG creates?

            I'm a noob with a similar challenge–we use an Xserve as our DCHP/DNS server. All I had to do was enter the Xserve's IP address in the "Allowed IP Addresses" tab on the Captive Portal settings page.

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              fcortes @gsa-tech
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              @gsa-tech Beautifully simple.. thank you.

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