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XG Firewall - How to create static IP addresses

just4fun

I'm hoping that this is a simple question, but for the life of me I cannot seem to find anywhere in the XG Firewall settings to set up static IP addresses based on MAC addresses.  This is very easy to find in UTM 9, but eludes me in XG.  My various home servers had static IP addresses to make them easy to find.

I would have thought it would be under "Interfaces" but no such luck there...

Thanks for any assistance.



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    Hello

    To do this, on your firewall navigate to Network > DHCP and then Add or Edit

    Once you are in the DHCP configuration page, click Add button next to static lease and keep adding MACs and IPs (I've highlighted this in the below screensnap).

     

    Hope this helps.

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  • +1

    Hello

    To do this, on your firewall navigate to Network > DHCP and then Add or Edit

    Once you are in the DHCP configuration page, click Add button next to static lease and keep adding MACs and IPs (I've highlighted this in the below screensnap).

     

    Hope this helps.

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  • 0 in reply to varunparikh

    DHCP to Static:  Thank you for this tip (noob to Sophos XG)

    A few thoughts after doing this today; it's not intuitive at all.  I would have expected that you could click on an existing MAC/device in the DHCP list and choose to "Make it static".  I think the Sophos engineers have definately missed the mark on making this a polished product (not just for this reason alone, if you have a few minutes, I'll be happy to share many other reasons, but I would have expected this simple thing, rather than having to copy/paste MAC after MAC!).

    I would at least recommend you include the DHCP devices below on the same screen so you can at least copy/paste off the same screen.  I added about 40 devices to the Static IP mapping section and it took forever.  I bet the engineers/programmers never did more than a couple to test it...otherwise they would be changing this today :)  On other products it would have taken me about 2 minutes (Mikrotik for example).  Also, I found that it's not very good at detecting hostnames, and what gives on why it takes so long to list the DHCP devices list?  Should be almost instantaneous.

     

    Where do we submit feedback and recommendations?