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Hi,
I am new to Opnsense. I have tons of DD-WRT experience, but that is a totally different animal!
I apologize if this information IS available on the forums, but after searching, my exact problem and terms/syntax are not to be found in the support forums. (sorry if I'm just blind!)
And OpnSense does not really have much in the way of HOW-TO/walk-thorugh documentation for these sorts of features and problems that may arise.
I have a brand new install of Opnsense 17.1 on a Dell i7 (3rd gen) system with Intel network interface hardware.
It installed ok, I have the web-gui up and running.
Only thing set up (AT the machine itself) was the static IP (192.168.1.222). DHCP service was not set up at this point.
IF I rely on "another" DHCP serer, everything works properly. I can log into the web-gui through another machine, poke around and change settings etc.
If I enable the DHCP server Opnsense (set the appropriate start and ending IP addresses), remove the other router/dhcp-server, attach the Opnsense Server and the administrating machine to a network switch - the administrating machine does not get an IP address from Opnsense.
In the Opnsense dashboard - the DHCP service/daemon is not started. If I manually try to start it - it just refuses and stays red.
Only way I can communicate with the Opnsense server is to assign a static IP to the administrating PC, and then I can get to the Opnsense web-gui.
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Does Opnsense ship out-of-the-box ready to "simply" enable the DHCP service, and set up appropriate start/end IP addresses ranges - and it should immediately start issuing IP addresses to any dhcp client?
OR - is there more to set up before this can work?
What BEYOND simply configuring DHCP and enabling it - is required for the DHCP service to start and work?
please advise.
I am new to Opnsense. I have tons of DD-WRT experience, but that is a totally different animal!
I apologize if this information IS available on the forums, but after searching, my exact problem and terms/syntax are not to be found in the support forums. (sorry if I'm just blind!)
And OpnSense does not really have much in the way of HOW-TO/walk-thorugh documentation for these sorts of features and problems that may arise.
I have a brand new install of Opnsense 17.1 on a Dell i7 (3rd gen) system with Intel network interface hardware.
It installed ok, I have the web-gui up and running.
Only thing set up (AT the machine itself) was the static IP (192.168.1.222). DHCP service was not set up at this point.
IF I rely on "another" DHCP serer, everything works properly. I can log into the web-gui through another machine, poke around and change settings etc.
If I enable the DHCP server Opnsense (set the appropriate start and ending IP addresses), remove the other router/dhcp-server, attach the Opnsense Server and the administrating machine to a network switch - the administrating machine does not get an IP address from Opnsense.
In the Opnsense dashboard - the DHCP service/daemon is not started. If I manually try to start it - it just refuses and stays red.
Only way I can communicate with the Opnsense server is to assign a static IP to the administrating PC, and then I can get to the Opnsense web-gui.
=======================================================
Does Opnsense ship out-of-the-box ready to "simply" enable the DHCP service, and set up appropriate start/end IP addresses ranges - and it should immediately start issuing IP addresses to any dhcp client?
OR - is there more to set up before this can work?
What BEYOND simply configuring DHCP and enabling it - is required for the DHCP service to start and work?
please advise.
