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Not receiving DHCP Address from DHCP Server
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 5:40 pm
by khris2fer74
For some reason we're having an issue where clients aren't receiving dhcp addresses from router. The local bridge appears to be fine, I did delete and recreate the bridge and rebooted with no luck. I can plug the same laptop into the local switch and get a dhcp address just fine on that same local network. We're using a Sonicwall Firewall SEVPN is installed on Windows Server 2012 it had been working without any issues until now. My next step to atleast getting it working is to enable SecureNat if I have to but I didn't want to have to do that. The client is connecting it's authenticating but never gets a dhcp address. Any ideas?
Re: Not receiving DHCP Address from DHCP Server
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2026 8:09 pm
by khris2fer74
I got it working. It has 2 physical nics nic1 nic2 and a virtual nic The virtual nic is the one that holds the ip address so naturally I though this is the one that should be bridged. It had been working on nic 2 which is unplugged (which is weird, how did that work in the first place) the first time i tried this bridging to nic one caused the nic to loose communication all together had I stayed on nic 1 I probably would have been ok... naturally I tried the 2nd one in line and it worked so I didn't question it. Finally I read that you don't want to bridge a virtual nic at all bridge the physical active nic of all of them despite it holding any ip info... that worked so I'll take it.