DHCP and DHCPv6 leases

If you want to see what DHCP leases have been issued, navigate to Status | DHCP Leases. This page offers several pieces of information about active and inactive leases:

  • The IP address of the lease.
  • The MAC address of the client that has received the lease.
  • The hostname of the client.
  • A description of the client, if one is available.
  • The start and end time of the lease.
  • Whether the client is online, and the type of lease: static, active, inactive. Static is for statically mapped DHCP leases; active and inactive is for dynamically allocated leases. Active denotes those clients that are using their leases, while inactive is for inactive clients whose DHCP leases have not yet expired.

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