Mastering pfSense

DHCP

If you only have a few devices on your network, you could easily configure them with static IP addresses and not use a DHCP server at all. In such cases, internet connectivity will be established more quickly, since computers on the network won't have to go through the DHCP discovery-offer-request-acknowledge process. As the size of your network grows, however, a DHCP server becomes essential, as keeping track of statically assigned IP addresses will become far too cumbersome. Fortunately, configuring pfSense to act as a DHCP server is relatively easy, and can be done from either the console or the web GUI.