DHCP-Server process and DDCP-Relay process on different VLANs

[hebein]

Hello,
I am just setting up my Netgate Router and I want to do the following:
For a VLAN-Group (eg. VLAN 1,2,3,4) I want to use the DHCP-Server that is running on a seperate server (our pharmacy's central server, with WINS etc. on it. Runs in the LAN (so VLAN0)). For this I suppose I would need a DHCP-relay service. On other VLANs (e.g.10,11,12,13) I would need a DHCP-server running on pfsense.

How can I activate both services for different VLANs?
pfsense says, that I cannot activate relay if using DHCP-server and vice versa.

Regards,
Gunther

[johnpoz]

I don't believe you can.. Run the relay/helper for your vlans on your switch that is doing the vlans.

If your switch(es) do not support that - get a better switch. Or just run host all your vlans off your other dhcpd and run relay for all vlans on pfsense.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/dhcp/dhcp-relay.html
To use the DHCP Relay daemon, the DHCP Server must be disabled on all interfaces. The same restriction applies to DHCPv6 relay and the DHCPv6 Server.