PFsense IP helper target

Jellman86

Hello All,

In my current home lab I have a custom PFsense box running in the router on a stick configuration, this has been working well. I've decided to change it so that my downstream switch (aruba layer 3) will do the routing, I've gone with this because its a far more common corporate configuration, presumably because of the routing / bandwidth limitations of the one armed router configuration.

I would still like to use my pfsense box as the DHCP server rather than spin up a windows DHCP server, so I'm wondering if I can get PFSense to respond to Ip helper requests from within defined vlans on a layer 3 switch?

The information I can find says no, but its very out of date.

Thanks for the help!

johnpoz

@Jellman86 they might at some point add that when kea is ready for primetime - but currently no pfsense can currently not act as dhcp server unless its directly attached to the network..

If you have a windows box sure you could spin up dhcp on it.. But you could also just spin up any other dhcp server on anything say docker or vm, or pi, etc..