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    Enable Captive Portal while using L3 switch?

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      eroji
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      I currently have a L3 switch that is handling the core routing. All VLANs are configured on the switch and pfsense is acting as the gateway. I have static routes defined in pfsense the route to the switch for any of my VLAN subnets. DHCP is handling be a Windows DC. With this setup, is it still possible to leverage pfsense for captive portal functionality?

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        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        You can, by disabling MAC address filtering, but it's not as secure since you don't have a direct L2 connection.

        Someone would only need to hop to a new IP address to potentially gain access, whereas with MAC filtering they would need to correctly guess a valid MAC+IP address combination.

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