Feature #7631
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Please allow static IPs be assigned from the DHCP range
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Description
Currently if a client was selected from the Leases table and a user wants to make an IP static pfSense forces it to be not in the DHCP range.
All industry router allow static IPs to be assigned from DHCP range.
Is there a reason why not to allow it? It'd be a good feature to add.
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 7 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Updated by Yuri Weinstein almost 7 years ago
why in the would all other vendors allow this and no pfSense?
Updated by Jim Pingle almost 7 years ago
Read the link, it's all explained there.
Updated by Phillip Davis almost 7 years ago
For future readers:
And if you have a bit of address space that you want to use for static IPs in the middle of the DHCP range, then you can specify 2 DHCP pool ranges, e.g.
192.168.1.10-192.168.1.250 with some static IPs at .25-29
make pools
192.168.1.10-192.168.1.24
192.168.1.30-192.168.1.250
Even if you really must have a few scattered static IPs, you can make a half-dozen DHCP pools.