ran the above and the following pops up. the MAC ending is c3 is the new one I assigned to the 20.91 address on DHCP pfsense server about an hr ago.

EDIT: wondering whether this may be a network manager problem on the VM client? See here

EDIT2: Even tried running ip addr flush dev <your_adapter_id> as suggested here but no effect at all

EDIT3: This is now solved. It was a client problem. Somewhere buried in the system, a static IP had been set up on this machine in the past I image.

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When running ntmui, the 106 address was configured as static address. Deleted it and now only sees the 91 address. Didn’t realise you coudl set two IPs against same interface. This is the page that helped following advice from @nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de of runnign dhclient -v ens18; for i in $(seq 60); do ip a s dev ens18; sleep 1; done