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Automatically populate IP address field when creating an IP reservation in the DHCP leases #7489

Closed lennon101 closed 4 weeks ago

lennon101 commented 4 weeks ago

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When I click on the plus symbol on a DHCP lease to reserve it, the IP address (that has already been assigned to it by DHCP) isn't being populated in the next page. I have to either copy it or remember it before clicking the ➕ button. Is that a bug or some sort of strange design decision?

Describe the solution you like

Automatically populate IP address field when creating an IP reservation in the DHCP leases

Describe alternatives you considered

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Additional context

I don't see an issue with reserving an IP inside the DHCP pool range. Especially if the IP has already been assigned by the DHCP, I can be sure there isn't going to be an IP address conflict. I know there is potential for other issues like network performance and configuration errors particularly in large networks, but in this context (my home network with only a few devices) I don't see an issue

fichtner commented 4 weeks ago

I don't see an issue with reserving an IP inside the DHCP pool range.

Nice try but you are wrong. We did follow this suggestion in the past and it caused a lot of users annoying problems because this assumption is false.

Cheers, Franco