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    pfSense KEA DHCP problems after reassigning interface

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      whosmatt
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      I have a lan type interface, let's call it 'lab.' I reassigned it from lagg0.13 to bge1 recently for some testing. The problems arose when I changed the interface back to lagg0.13 and then shutdown the switch port connected to bge1. DHCP stops working.

      After going down a bunch of rabbit holes I can see when running tcpdump on lagg0.13 that DHCP requests are coming in but not being replied to.

      As an experiment, I brought up the bge1 interface again (but left it unassigned) and DHCP started working again. I can see, when running tcpdump simultaneously on lagg0.13 and bge1 that DCHP offers only go out when bge1 is up.

      I tried restarting the DHCP service to no avail. Rebooting pfSense did the trick, however.

      Anyone ever see anything like this?

      Thanks,

      Matt

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        mcury @whosmatt
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        @whosmatt Yeap, https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/15899#change-75340

        I've been trying to understand this issue for a while now, to help Netgate team to be able to replicate it.
        If you can help us updating that ticket, it would help us a lot.
        Thanks.

        dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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          whosmatt @mcury
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          @mcury I'm not sure that's the same issue. I've actually added and removed members from my lagg many times without DHCP being affected. My issue arises when I assign an interface to a different NIC and then back to the original NIC, which just happens to be a tagged interface with a lagg as the parent. I'm not sure the lagg is relevant.

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            mcury @whosmatt
            last edited by mcury

            @whosmatt said in pfSense KEA DHCP problems after reassigning interface:

            @mcury I'm not sure that's the same issue. I've actually added and removed members from my lagg many times without DHCP being affected. My issue arises when I assign an interface to a different NIC and then back to the original NIC, which just happens to be a tagged interface with a lagg as the parent. I'm not sure the lagg is relevant.

            hmmmm 🤔
            I think that the ticket issue is related to yours but I got it wrong, the problem was not adding or removing members from the LAG.
            See, previously I had some VLANs, and the issue happened after I moved them to the LAG interface.
            At the same time I added a member and that confused me.

            So, I really think we have the same issue and I got it wrong when I reported.
            This explains why Netgate team couldn't replicate it..

            Edit: It happened three times, guess what ?
            I have three VLANs..

            dead on arrival, nowhere to be found.

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