Offline leases in the pfSense interface are, I believe, merely a visual guide to show you who last got that IP address. The “offline” part is what I’m not 100% sure about – if it just means the expiry date is past, or if the lease has been released, or if the device isn’t responding to ARP… dunno about that part.
-Adam From: Atkins, Dwane P [mailto:atki...@uthscsa.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 13:14 To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases. So is there no way to edit and get rid of all offline lease that have not reached their max lease time? Thank you, Dwane From: Adam Thompson [mailto:athom...@athompso.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 12:47 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: RE: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases. Could you explain, please what you mean by ‘release all unused DHCP addresses’? Once you’ve changed DHCP server parameters, nothing actually changes until the client next renews its lease, so what I think you’re after… is an automatic process that takes up to 2*previous-max-lease-time. You could reboot every single DHCP client, which barring broken DHCP client implementations (Win95, notably) should accomplish your goal. -Adam From: Atkins, Dwane P [mailto:atki...@uthscsa.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:27 To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: [pfSense Support] RE: Release all unused DHCP leases. Can I do this by restarting the DHCP services? I have lowered the default and maximum leased times. Any ideas? From: Atkins, Dwane P [mailto:atki...@uthscsa.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 11:22 AM To: 'support@pfsense.com' Subject: [pfSense Support] Release all unused DHCP leases. Is there a way to release all unused DHCP addresses without a reboot?
