Well I have the default lease time set for 60 minutes and the maximum at 1 day.

The server still won’t release those IP’s back to the pool until it goes through the whole subnet.

Generally we only have about 40 users a day, which would be fine… but occasionally we get around 80 – 90 with meetings and this would go beyond our 1:1 mappings.

 

If we never went over 59 users I’d set the range from 194-253 and call it done (and this works fine… as soon as it goes through the subnet it starts back with the released IP’s)

But again, it feels the need to finish the subnet before going back to the retired IP’s.

 

Was just wondering if there was a way to turn up the “aggressiveness” of the server so that it will use the Retired IP’s as soon as they are, well retired.

 

If this can’t be done… it’s not really that big of deal, most users don’t have trouble with NAT, it’s just a few here and there.

Thanks guys,

-Tim

 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Terhaar
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:31 PM
To: support@pfsense.com
Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] DHCP Question

 

 

On 10/30/06, Tim Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I have a DCHP range setup up on one of my interfaces of 192.168.1.100 – 253

I have 1:1 mappings on 192.168.1.194 – 253.

 

I would like it to use those in the 1:1 range before going below.  We are a hotel… and so have a high turn around time for DHCP.  I have it setup for a days release, but it still seems to go through the list before reassigning those IP's that have expired.  Is there a way to turn up the aggressiveness of DHCP?

I want to leave the range rather large incase we have a full house, but would like to stick with the 1:1's because It helps alleviate a lot of VPN and general connectivity issues for our guests.

Any comments welcome.

-Tim

 

I'me not sure how to set it in Pfsense, but the key phrase that you're looking for here is "lease time"


If you're generally getting hundreds of clients on the same subnet you should consider adding additional subnets to your network.

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