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      firebane
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      So my network consists of a pfSense box, HP Procurve Switch, and 3 VLANS configured.

      My switch has VLAN 10,20, and 30 with 30 being the VLAN for WIFI. pfSense has 3 VLANs setup in a identical sense and I have DHCP running on the VLAN for WiFi.

      My issue that I'm having is that when I connect to the Unifi Controller I get a 169.x.x.x IP address but if I connect a laptop to the switch on the same VLAN as the WIFI I can get a IP address perfectly fine.

      I'm looking for advice to move ahead in how to get it so that when I connect to my AP that I get an IP address. I realize that the IP address has to come from the VLAN on the pfSense box as the AP does not have a DHCP controller.

      When looking at logs I see this:

      Apr 25 12:01:51 dhcpd DHCPOFFER on 10.0.3.108 to (mac address) (hostname) via vlan.30
      Apr 25 12:01:51 dhcpd DHCPDISCOVER from (mac address) (host) via vlan.30

      So I'm confused to as why my laptop is not accepting the offer? Or getting the IP

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        GregoryO
        last edited by

        How you run the Unify Controller? Where is controller localted ? switch? computer?

        Is it a Unify Cloud key ?

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          nerkalis
          last edited by

          did you offer ip helper-address a.b.c.d on unifi controller?

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            nerkalis @nerkalis
            last edited by

            @nerkalis see if this helps
            https://community.ubnt.com/t5/UniFi-Wireless/UniFi-AP-Pro-DHCP-Server-and-Cisco-HelperAddress/td-p/1162821

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