Afaik this has never worked the way you are describing it with pfSense (it's ported over from m0n0 and even m0n0 doesn't accept additional static mappings inside the dhcp pool unless I'm totally wrong, haven't tested this recently). I don't know if this is only a gui limitation or has to do with how the backend (dhcpd) works, but it shouldn't be a problem to make the dhcp range a bit smaller and add the static mappings in fornt or behind the range?
Holger -----Original Message----- From: Steve Harman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 9:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [pfSense Support] Static DHCP Mapping - am I missing something? Hi! We have a couple of DHCP'd client machines which I'd like to force to always have the same IP address no matter what. So I've gone into the DHCP leases section, found the MAC of a machine I'm interested in and headed for "Add a static mapping" link. On the next screen I can them add the IP I'd like permanently mapped, along with a description etc. However if I try to enter an IP which is part of the DHCP pool I'm told that I can't... because it's part of the DHCP pool. But that's the point, isn't it? On previous [non pfSense] systems I've been able to tell the DHCP server; "OK you have this pool of addresses from 1 to 250 for DHCP use but within that range address 'x' and 'y' will always be assigned to these H/W addresses". Am I missing something? Thanks, Steve ____________ Virus checked by G DATA AntiVirusKit --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
