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    Keep loosing WAN IP Address - dhclient does not seem to do update

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      Selective
      last edited by

      the new dhclient is working great !
      but i have found small bug, under Interfaces my wan says DHCP : down
      like this:
      –-----------------------
      WAN interface (rl0) 
      Status up 
      DHCP down   
      MAC address 00:0a:cd:11:ef:fa 
      Media 100baseTX <full-duplex> 
      In/out packets 88231/110810 (21.17 MB/32.31 MB) 
      In/out errors 0/0 
      Collisions 0

      keep up the good work !</full-duplex>

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        Selective
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        i just noticed a very good thing, it looks like with the new dhclient, the OpenVPN problem with "address in use" issue is fixed ! at least on my pfsense !

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          sullrich
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          @Selective:

          the new dhclient is working great !
          but i have found small bug, under Interfaces my wan says DHCP : down
          like this:
          –-----------------------
          WAN interface (rl0) 
          Status up 
          DHCP down   
          MAC address 00:0a:cd:11:ef:fa 
          Media 100baseTX <full-duplex>In/out packets 88231/110810 (21.17 MB/32.31 MB) 
          In/out errors 0/0 
          Collisions 0

          keep up the good work !</full-duplex>

          Yeah, we are aware of this issue.  Should be fixed rather soon.  Just keep running that command every 12 hours or so and you will have the latest code.  But don't run the command unattended (from cron).

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            fireseller
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            Just tried to fetch the newest cvs several times but always got stuck with:

            fetch -q -o - http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/tools/cvs_sync.sh | sh

            Setting CVS_IP to cvs.pfsense.com
            Syncing with pfSense.com
            Checking out RELENG_1
            Connected to cvs.pfsense.com
            Updating collection pfSenseHEAD/cvs
            Rsync CVSROOT/history
            Edit pfSense/etc/inc/service-utils.inc,v
            Create pfSense/usr/local/bin/php,v

            Any advice?

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              sullrich
              last edited by

              Your being impatient.  Let it go… It is still processing php which is every php change ever and is quite large.

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                fireseller
                last edited by

                Ups, sorry bout that. I watched it for about 10 mins ;) Just starting up again.

                Thanks alot.

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                  sullrich
                  last edited by

                  Please run the command again.  All known issues hopefully are solved.

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                    sullrich
                    last edited by

                    NOTE: you WILL need to reboot afterwards.

                    Please run again, I just fixed a few more bugs.

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                      dlawley
                      last edited by

                      Yea… my sense box seems pretty happy again..  thank you sir...

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                        sullrich
                        last edited by

                        Good.  Others please test.  A new snapshot will be uploaded in a couple hours.

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                          fireseller
                          last edited by

                          running great now for around 1 day!

                          Thanks a lot for the great work!

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                            sullrich
                            last edited by

                            @fireseller:

                            running great now for around 1 day!

                            Thanks a lot for the great work!

                            Awesome!  Anyone else?

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                              Selective
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                              Works great ! I think you hit the spot !  ;D

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                                sullrich
                                last edited by

                                @Selective:

                                Works great ! I think you hit the spot !  ;D

                                Great!  That's 3-4 people that is now fixed.  FreeBSD REALLY needs to take a look at their dhclient.  It's obvious that it's subpar to ISC's.

                                Anyone else?

                                Merry Xmas and happy holidays!

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                                  fireseller
                                  last edited by

                                  Just updated to the latest cvs… No issue for 2 days. I think the right spot was hit ;)

                                  Happy holidays and again - big thanks for the great work!

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                                    adrianhensler
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                                    I'm new here; so it could be me; but I'm also experiencing the issue. I have to ifconfig up / down every couple hours.  I don't see any logs that are showing me errors - any tips on where to look? I installed from the 12-23 build with squid and snort. I also ran the fetch command from above.

                                    I'm all for suggesting it's user error; any tips are welcome. I had a build from early December running and it was up for a couple weeks without issue.

                                    edit with a tiny bit more info - I've looked at the system.log; and it seems to be corrupted near the end.I'm on my second old clunker hard drive; maybe this one's been around the block too many times as well. There's some weird duplication at the end of the log before it turns into an ASCII mess:

                                    Dec 27 02:44:31 chunder snort[775]: Var 'SMTP_SERVERS' defined, value len = 28 chars
                                    Dec 27 02:44:31 chunder snort[775]: Var 'SMTP_SERVERS' defined, value len = 28 chars
                                    Dec 27 02:44:31 chunder snort[775]: , value = [24.89.123.123,192.168.1.1,]
                                    …skipping...
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: execve (/sb, ...): No such file or directory
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: execve (/sb, ...): No such file or directory
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Listening on BPF/ed0/00:50:8d:f1:3a:9d
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Sending on  BPF/ed0/00:50:8d:f1:3a:9d
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: Please make sure there is no other dhcp server
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: running and that there's no entry for dhcp or
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: bootp in /etc/inetd.conf.  Also make sure you
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: bootp in /etc/inetd.conf.  Also make sure you
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: are not running HP JetAdmin software, which
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: includes a bootp server.
                                    Dec 27 21:53:26 chunder dhclient: includes a bootp server.

                                    Does that suggest anything? I'm not aware of any bootp servers running anywhere. Hm.

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                                      hoba
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                                      Any chance that you are using dhcp on more than 1 interface? The current dhclient-switch doesn't handle multiple dhcp interfaces correctly atm. We need to improve this a bit to handle these kind of situations.

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                                        sullrich
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                                        @hoba:

                                        Any chance that you are using dhcp on more than 1 interface? The current dhclient-switch doesn't handle multiple dhcp interfaces correctly atm. We need to improve this a bit to handle these kind of situations.

                                        Bad news.  Looks like we are going to have to revert back to the previous code.  This newer code breaks our multi-wan dhcp.

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                                          adrianhensler
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                                          Just to follow up on my previous information; I see this in the system.log:

                                          Dec 28 08:39:40 chunder dhclient: execve (/usr/local/sbin/dhclient-script, …): No such file or directory
Dec 28 08:39:40 chunder dhclient: execve (/usr/local/sbin/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory
Dec 28 08:39:40 chunder dhclient: /y: not found
Dec 28 08:39:40 chunder dhclient: /y: not found

                                          dhclient-script is in /sbin ?

                                          I'm still using the install from 12-23 and I used the fetch from another thread. Maybe I just made a mess…. Maybe I'll copy that over and see what happens; or maybe I'll get a chance to take a better look at it and see what put it there.

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                                            hoba
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                                            Investigating this error is riding a dead horse. We have to go back to the previous dhclient due to multi interface dhclient issues with the isc client that can't be worked around. The next snapshot will be back at the "old" openbsd dhclient.

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