Thank you! You just increased my understanding of DHCP by a factor of 10. Yes, please keep these types of videos coming, you are an excellent teacher. Would love to see a video on vlan groups in Unifi.

I'd love to see a video on how to deploy an access point using only the 5 GHz radio. This used to be easy in Unifi, but now I think it involves setting up AP groups or something like that. A tutorial would be great, and I've not found one elsewhere on KZfaq. I appreciate this community!

Love the B standard wire picture over your right shoulder, well done 😊

Thanks for giving Edge some love. I have both Edgerouter and Edgeswitch. I have a couple of Unifi devices, too.

Chris, great video as always. While UI's way of setting up RSVPs is somewhat convenient, it is also very limited. I was quite disappointed to find that I cannot create RSVPs in advance of a client connecting. Even a Windows DHCP Server allows me to create RSVPs based on MAC knowledge. We should be able to create RSVPs in advance since it is all MAC based. As it stands now, to get a device onto an IP that I want (EG: all of my UI cameras are in a contiguous set of IPs), I have to add the camera to the network, set it's IP manually in the Unifi network app, then I have to bounce the POE on the port to get the camera to send out a new DHCP Discover packet and run through the sequence again. That is crappy. We should be able to create the RSVP, adopt the camera and have it on the IP we want upon boot. Unifi has a loooooooong way to go to get caught up to the rest of the world on basic networking features.

Thanks for the tips. Keep them coming in this format. VLAN and managed switches are my kryptonite at present and would like straight forward tutorals on setting them up for a SOHO environment with Ubi, Netgear, TPLink, TrendNet managed switches and Edge Routers.

Great video. I use DHCP reservations all the time

Great video as always. Nice to have a review, especially when it gives more details that I had forgotten! I would LOVE an updated video on site to site VPN with the new controller version including example networks and maybe even using it as a proxy to internet...? Thanks!

Thanks again...as usual, Chris!

Chris, thanks for excellent training. When configuring a network for an MDU building, I prefer to use WiFi routers vs APs in each unit to control DHCP locally. Otherwise, EdgeRouter must manage a class B network because you can have over 10 devices per unit and 100 units requiring 1000 DHCP addresses. Surely, managing 1000 addresses in class B will slow down EdgeRouter. Also, you achieve greater securing behind a local firewall. Port isolation is possible for security, but it eliminates printer use since clients and printer must communicate.

YES More on my EDGE 4er…..was very useful Video

Looking at the length of the short section on UDMPro and the long section on Edge Router makes me pretty sure that I chose the right platform to manage my networks. 🙂🙂

Love the simple videos! One thing I was curious about the advantages to using a DHCP Reservation vs just assigning it a Static IP outside of the DHCP Pool?

Thanks for your videos on Unifi/Edge devices. They have helped me understand Unifi. Could you do a video on what Switch0 is, why and how to use it?

This was simple enough, something that I couldn't find in the datasheet if it was possible or not on Unifi :) Something that would be really cool, that I haven't seen anywhere, would be the ability to specify a MAC range/the vendor portion of the MAC to a pool of IP addresses. That way you could say all my Ubiquity devices should get an IP between .154 and .254 for example. I wonder why nobody has implemented that yet? Maybe Cisco has a patent on it or something :D

Thank you.

This is the most comprehensive video I could find in KZfaq for this matter, thank you and well done! However, I still can't find an answer for my question. If I already have a list of MAC and IP Address mappings for all my Smart/IoT devices, how can I upload the whole list in a bulk fashion, without having to create reservations one by one? (I did this in Pi-hole before but I'm considering buying a Dream Machine now and make it my DHCP server).

Thanks Chris for the clear instructions. How to achieve the same for Unifi devices? E.g. how to set a static lease for my UAP-AC-Pro AccessPoints and Unifi Switches? The options under Config->Network look a bit different setting manual IP rather than using DHCP.

Great! Would love to see when to use VLANs (other than VOIP), when do I need it. Have a /23 network and I guess we could use atleast 1 management vlan but clients still need to access servers in the management?

Nice video, however regrettably this does not work for AP's switches etc within unifi. I would like to assign them in a specific range as well.

Thanks for explaining DHCP in a no nonsense way! Is it possible or advised to configure DhCP pool IP addresses after the network is already deployed with clients? btw, if you could please do a few vids on configuring Firewall Rules with the UDMP, that would be great!

I would love to see a video of how to physically connect a Negate 2100 WAN to IP modem or directly. What is involved, pros and cons.

recently getting some problems with my lan with the udm, will like to see how you setup some vlans and using profiles to get a ip address no matter what. im troubleshooting this but still getting no internet on lan even with a static ip, wifi works smoothly only hardwired is going on and off. great information here.

Any possibility on doing a tutorial on how to setup DHCPv6 on edgerouter series?

Any idea how you set a static IP before connecting a device to the network (i.e. If you have the mac add) in Unifi?

Can you do a video about configuring DHCP relay on UniFi switches?

Thanks for the video. Unfortunately the checkbox to make the IP static is greyed out with a little "USG" balloon after it. I don't have a Ubiquity secure gateway just the edge router. Any thoughts?

On my EdgeRouter, I use static maps for all devices on my network and assign them IP addresses outside of the lease range. When I create my static map entries, I put them outside of the DCHP lease range. What this does for me is if I find a new device that has an IP address in the lease range, then I know it is a device that I haven't approved for my network. Once I figure out what the new device is, I give it a static map address outside of the dynamic lease range. This allows me to have a lease range that is smaller than usual. This is my "lazy man" way of auditing devices on my network.

Is it possible to make a short video about how to set up a UniFi access point with a static IP address

Like your videos! Is there a way with UniFi OS to see the DHCP reservations? I haven't found that. Trying to go to each individual device to find out what has been reserved is a pain. Come on UniFi... an ASUS router at a fraction of the price does this!

For the ubiquity setup, how would I do this without devices connected (pre-setup by mac address)?

You can also use static mapping to give out ip outside dhcp range.

Hello, I have a EdgeRouter Pro, connected to a UniFi Switch Aggregation (and from there to other switches). I have setup a bond0 (2xSFP) to the Aggregation switch running 3 networks, and this works fine. However if I add my DHCP 192.168.1.x to bond0, things do work, i have wired internet, but all wifi-devices no longer has internet connection? Bond0 setup: hash-policy layer2+3 , mode 802.3ad

What if you are keep replacing devices that of course has different MAC Address to a same port and you want to get the same IP Address?

Fun fact, if you have clients using this you cannot change a networks IP address. You have to go to each device and disable this feature before it can be changed. I wish unifi showed a list of your DHCP reservations like Edge OS does or be able to setup DHCP reservations before the device even connects. Unifi would be annoying to roll out a printer fleet with.

Good Video ! Also use DHCP scope size. Not really the best practice to make it 2-254. I like going from 50-125.

Nice video! Now how can you view your DHCP static mapping in Unifi, or get full list of DHCP reserved addresses?

Did a crazy thing recently for a client. They're repairing lots of units - they wanted the same IP to always be assigned to any device plugged in to a specific port on the specified switches. Not a common thing right? We tried using VLANs and a 1 IP scope on each port... the UDM-Pro went a little nuts after we had just a small number of the VLANs configured. We ended up having to go w Cisco switches which have a port-based DHCP capability. I'm sad Unifi doesn't have an easy way to do it... seems like it would be a really simple thing to implement even though it would so rarely be needed. For my clients being able to plug in a bunch of machines and know exactly what IP to go to each time to work with them has really helped their workflow. :)

Hi Chris and unifi it's really bad to use fixed IP addresses Reason if the client leaves the network and he is not under known clients anymore and you try to modify the network it will give you an error and you have no way of fixing that error Because there is no DHCP lease table everything is under clients/known client

hey there! I want to use my edge X router as my gateway (Dhcp server) and every other devices falls behind my udm pro. how can i do that?

I'm not using a Unifi Modem/Router. is there anyway I can reserve an IP for my could key Gen2+ without using a static IP which seems to limit by ability to remotely access/manage the system from the Unifi UI Portal?

Good video but random suggestion, the orange used in the on screen text is too close to the grey colour and makes it a bit hard to read the text.

A note that 1.12.15 is current only if you're using the Early Access release channel.

Question is: How you do static IP reservations when you have bunch of iOS devices with private MAC addresses turned on? Which essentially means MAC address changes whenever the DHCP lease expires?

Hi Chris Thanks for good videos as always. You didn't mention that many of the new phones today changes MAC-address (dynamic MAC-address) when connecting to WiFi networks. This can be manually turned off on the device, but its not default

I tried this in Unifi OS 3.2.7, and the network option is not available anymore. Do you know how to set the network in the latest version of the OS?

If only Windows Server DHCP service had a simple Map button. All the years I have had to record MAC addresses by hand and type them into reservations. I am puzzled why the UDM interface referred on screen to a reserved IP address for your phone as "fixed", when reserved is the correct title (assuming you stuck to you 1-50 for fixed, 51-254 as DHCP pool)?

How can I nuke static DHCP settings for clients that are no longer on the network? (For Unifi Network)

I was going to ask you to show us how you would create DHCP reservations for devices that have never been on that Network, so the first time you plug them in they get the desired IP address, but we already know the answer to that. With Ubiquiti UDM you pre-stage (or reserve) DHCP addresses the same way you create static DNS entries....YOU CAN'T! I use a lot of ubiquiti equipment, but it's embarrassing talking to other it professionals when they bring those two points up. I love UI but sometimes they have some head scratching and embarrassing omissions.

What is driving me crazy is that I cannot manually add a Mac Reservation to a client that is not showing up in the client list on the Unifi.UI Portal. This is ridiculous to me. No matter what I do, the client will not show up in the list, which from my research is a common problem with this software. So as it stands, I cannot reserve the IP on this particular device. I had to set a static IP address on the device and then edit the DHCP pool to a smaller pool so that the static IP sits outside the pool. I should not have to do this. Why can we not just manually add a client via MAC address reservation, much like the Edge OS allows?

Dynamic Host “Configuration” Protocol, not “Control”.

So all you really did was give a static ip to a device in your DHCP pool in UnFi. I thought DHCP Reservations was the same as Static Mapping with the controls of adding mac address and other controls. In UnFi is there a way I can add multiple devices with mac address and the DHCP pool will assign the static address.

AKA "nailing IP addresses"