in dnsmasq dhcp: leases: button to delete lease

[sigma]

I used this with the old version a lot. now I have to wait days for leases to be expire, it is frustrating. I want to see if a device is still active on my network. if I reboot opnsense it will just give the active valid lease so, rebooting does not work. If I had a button like before I can just delete the lease and see if the device requests again without rebooting. Also, when I add a static ip the dhcp lease stays.

Is there a way to delete the ip lease so I may better control my network? not having it seems illogical as it is very handy and useful to have.

Thanks in advance

[pseudonym3k]

I am in similar situation and hoping for a straightforward, clean solution.

I have some devices I need a reserved DHCP address assigned. The wifi mac is not printed anywhere, I have to connect to ethernet or wifi first to get that. I set up a reserved IP assignment in DNSMasq, then reboot the device. It just gets the dynamic IP back. The devices have no options to do anything else.

If I use the magnifier glass next to the dynamic lease in DNSmasq it takes me to the static assignment record. But still the device IP doesn't change until the lease expires.

The workarounds I have used:

1. Stop DNSMasq, edit the DNSMasq active leases file and remove unwanted leases or change the lease time, then start DNSMasq again. I haven't seen any side effects but I don't like editing files as I'll never know when it might cause a problem.

2. After the static assignment is in place, do a factory reset on the device then configure it again. Doable but not really desirable. And doesn't always work; some devices STILL get the dynamic active lease back.

3. Set the default lease time to something short *before* I connect the new device for the first time. I also need to wait until some devices (that tend to behave badly during lease renewals) are not going to be renewing during this time. If I forget to alter the default lease time then it's back to #1 or #2 or have to wait for the lease to expire, before I can finish setting up the new device.


Are there any other options I can use, to get the reserved IP assigned when the device can't cause it to happen?


I did read in Github and elsewhere that adding a delete lease function is not planned, for reasons such as possible inconsistencies. Could the active lease time be edited in the GUI to some minimum time, like five minutes, so DNSMasq could expire it in a normal way and assign the reserved IP?