Feature #13470
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Allow reservations within DHCP-range, to add DHCP-client to reserved from within DHCP-leases with pre-filled IP
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Description
Hi,
It would be absolutely fantastic if one could do reservations of addresses that are within the DHCP-range. Enabling basically a two-button setup of mapping a client to a static/reserved IP. This would obviously be pre-filled with the assigned dynamic address, which afterwards would be reserved.
Updated by Jim Pingle over 2 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Not possible. The underlying DHCP daemon does not support reservations. Static mappings express a preference, they do not reserve the addresses in a way which prevents them from being assigned to other clients if they are inside of a pool.
Attempting to automatically build pools which exclude addresses in the middle of the pool would vastly increase complexity and also cause problems with HA DHCP.
See also: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/services/dhcp/mappings-in-pools.html