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    Do portals work on bridged segments?

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    • senseivitaS
      senseivita
      last edited by

      If I have two VLANs bridge together, VLAN1 hosts everything (e.g; DHCP, DNS-SD…) while VLAN2 is only an empty carrier where VLAN1's traffic "spills over".

      If I'd set a portal on VLAN2, would it work?

      I was snooping around the portal options then when this occurred to me. I added a new interface with no address and discovered that it is available to put a portal in.

      Screenshot of interface with no address being available for a new portal

      Continuing on needs real changes, so I left it there and came to ask instead. :)

      If an address was needed for the portal to work, would a virtual IP address do?

      Missing something? Word endings, maybe? I included a free puzzle in this msg if you solv--okay, I'm lying. It's dyslexia, makes me do that, sorry! Just finish the word; they're rarely misspelled, just incomplete. Yeah-yeah-I know. Same thing.

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      • GertjanG
        Gertjan @senseivita
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        @skilledinept

        A 'captive portal' needs a IPv4 IP and network - and a running DHCP server for that interface.
        Unbound needs to listen on that interface.

        Because you use VLAN : the device at the other end of the 'LAN' cable (over which the VLAN "5" is running) need to handle VLAn's and set up to sift out this VLAN5.
        That could be your AP's), or, by default, a VLAN capable smart switch.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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