What a surprise … if I were to believe this I would file for madness state support. Image Look like the VM is having a nice chat with the DHCP sever and both agree that the IP should be 192.168.2’.91. Then one of the two cheat, and actually work on 106. Logs in DHCP server a showing nothing. I even told pfSense to ignore the machine ID and it had no effect whatsoever. Image If there was another DHCP server hiding somewhere, dhclient would have picked that up presumably.