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Tutorials and FAQs / Re: DNS for LAN devices outside of the DHCP pool have to be set manually.
« on: August 22, 2024, 04:45:34 pm »
I think maybe I wasn't specific enough when I wrote my initial post.
Before I ever installed opnsense I tried to do my research on the software. I had my network configured with Versa SDWAN (as I used to work with a company that utilized Versa and had access to free software and equipment).
Basically, I got laid off but still wanted to have a router at the top of my network for protection, analytics and IP schema. So I wiped the box and put my own OS on it. I still wanted all of the cool and secure stuff. I read online that the static reservations that are made inside of the DHCP pool for OPNsense CAN get overridden by the router handing out new DHCP to those addresses. I made my pool as follows:
Network: 172.24.69.1/24
Pool: 172.24.69.50 Through the .200.
I gave the 2 gaming PC's that I have .14 and .15, obviously outside of the pool, and I had to go into the Ethernet Properties to manually set the IP, DNS, and GW.
I was hoping there was an easier way to accomplish the manual setting of the IP and DNS so that for every entry I chose to make static I could mange it easier instead of having to do it via the device I could manage it at the network level. I am brand new to OPNsense so maybe I am just not familiar enough with the software but I could not find a solution to this anywhere online or on the forum.
Before I ever installed opnsense I tried to do my research on the software. I had my network configured with Versa SDWAN (as I used to work with a company that utilized Versa and had access to free software and equipment).
Basically, I got laid off but still wanted to have a router at the top of my network for protection, analytics and IP schema. So I wiped the box and put my own OS on it. I still wanted all of the cool and secure stuff. I read online that the static reservations that are made inside of the DHCP pool for OPNsense CAN get overridden by the router handing out new DHCP to those addresses. I made my pool as follows:
Network: 172.24.69.1/24
Pool: 172.24.69.50 Through the .200.
I gave the 2 gaming PC's that I have .14 and .15, obviously outside of the pool, and I had to go into the Ethernet Properties to manually set the IP, DNS, and GW.
I was hoping there was an easier way to accomplish the manual setting of the IP and DNS so that for every entry I chose to make static I could mange it easier instead of having to do it via the device I could manage it at the network level. I am brand new to OPNsense so maybe I am just not familiar enough with the software but I could not find a solution to this anywhere online or on the forum.