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    Can you set both static ip's and use dhcp at the same time?

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      wonslung last edited by

      basically my topic is the question.

      I'm wondering if i can set up some computers with static and some with dhcp….i'd like to have some computers have 4 or so static ip's but have all the rest use dhcp.

      Is this possible?

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        blak111 last edited by

        Yes, just make sure you don't check use static arp entries on the dhcp page.

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          ktims last edited by

          Sure, but I wouldn't overlap the DHCP range with the static addresses you use. It shouldn't be difficult to do an ARP ping before giving out a DHCP lease, but I've found lots of devices that don't (not sure if pfSense does or not, never tried), and this will eventually lead to IP conflicts.

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            wonslung last edited by

            yah, i figured this out on my own.  my dhcp is set to 100-254 and my static space is lower.

            next question:

            i love how the static dhcp works as a dns as well inside my network.

            for example:  I have wonslung-desktop set up as a static dhcp and i can do ssh wonslung-desktop from my laptop instead of ssh 192.168.1.10
            is there anyway to set these dns entries for the normal static ips?  my server has 4 ip's right now, 192.168.1.14-18 and i'd like to set up dns entries for each one
            since they are all on the same mac address (same interface) i can't use the static dhcp to do this.

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              ktims last edited by

              Yes, you can set this up in the DNS Forwarder configuration.

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