Hi team! I am new to PFsense. I recently installed it and I am trying to set static IPs to my NAS,WAP and switch.
I add the static IPs in the DHCP leases but they arent updating. I rebooted the router and restarted the service multiple times and still no change. What could I be doing wrong?
If you change the client’s IP address in the router’s DHCP table, for example setting a different static IP, you need to get the DHCP client on the client device to check in with the DHCP server. I’d guess that overnight, your clients requested a DHCP lease update and got the corrected address from the server. Often, when I set a new static IP, I’ll reboot the client to immediately push the IP update.
As gzornetzer pointed out, every time you add a new static DHCP lease, reboot the client. Activate the static ARP record option, if the reboot didn’t help. Also, don’t forget to click “Apply Changes”
As a troubleshooting step run this command in linux on a client side, post the result here:
dhclient -v