On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:04 PM, greg whynott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have the pfSence fw provide DHCP services to a network > which lives one hop beyond the pfsence's INSIDE directly connected network? > On the router i configured an ip-helper address, i then went to configure > the pfsecne's DHCP service but it is complaining about the network not > matching that of the network which the INSIDE interface is within. is > there a way around that? (is it ok to edit files manually without breaking > things).. > > > OUTSIDE==[pfS-FW]==[router]==[network requiring DHCP] > > > i've already brought up a DHCP server elsewhere, but thought i'd ask about > this anyway. having scopes which don't match an interface connected to the > DHCP server(pfsence) doesn't seem like an uncommon thing, i just wanted to > make sure i wasn't missing a config option somewhere, and ask... >
Not possible. Not uncommon to have deployments like that, but first I've heard of anyone with a network like that wanting to run DHCP on the firewall, generally those networks have a DHCP server in place elsewhere. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
