DHCP Stopped working

[sidis405]

Hello,
i'm fairly new to pfSense.
Created a pfSense 2.0 box to replace the existing debian-based firewall/gateway i had.

The box has two WANs and two LANs.

Set up everything: the interfaces, dhcp, openvpn, port forwarding, captive portal, static leases.
Everything working like a charm-

Today i noticed that a cpl clients on one of the LAN interfaces kept disconnecting. Would receive the lease once the cable would just plug in, then lose it in a few moments.
Rebooted the box and now dhcp won't send out leases at all.
Then i noticed this is also happening on the other lan interface as well.
Meanwhile if configured with static ip's, the clients work like a charm-

Any ideas.
Best regards and thanks in advace.

[Metu69salemi]

can you show screenshot of your dhcp-server page?

[sidis405]

Hello Metu69salemi.

Thanks for your reply.
I did some more investigating this morning.

I removed all the static leases and left it as simple dhcp. Works again.
I'm curious if there's some sort of caveat to know here.

The network is built this way.
I have machines with static leases spread from 10.0.0.2 to 10.0.0.169.
I have left a dynamic pool fro 10.0.0.170 to 180.
Then continue with static leases from 10.0.0.181 to 253.

I modified the config.xml file today and removed all the static leases.
DHCP works. On all interfaces. Place them again, goes again.

Here's a screenshot of the config-
As i said as long as i don't place the static leases, works fine.

Another thing. The laptop i'm working on right now, has an ip i assigned manually 10.0.0.108.
On the Status: DHCP leases view, that host shows as offline.


[Metu69salemi]

You should not have problems if were believing the image ;)

But how did you add those static ip-leases?

[sidis405]

:) yes you can believe the image.

a bunch i added from the interface.

then since i realized i have a hundred and some entries, i wrote a little script to parse the config file of my actual dhcp server and deliver me entries like this:

 <staticmap><mac>7C:C5:xx:xx:xx:xx</mac>
				<ipaddr>10.0.0.xxx</ipaddr>
				<hostname>sids-iphone</hostname></staticmap> 
			<staticmap></staticmap>

which then i proceeded to add to config.xml

they all show up correctly.

now i reverted to a clean config, (without the static leases) and adding them gradually still from config.xml-
seems to still be ok but i'm only at the beginning.

do you thing i should continue just from the gui?

[sidis405]

Nope, was fine for a while. Then started doing it again.

Maybe, i simply need to add them all from the interface.

:(

[Metu69salemi]

There should be no difference that if you add them via gui or by editing config.xml(if you add them sameway as gui add'em)
But i had this kind of entry when i tried

	 <staticmap><mac>75:75:75:76:76:76</mac>
				<ipaddr>192.168.3.240</ipaddr>
				<hostname>test</hostname></staticmap> 

So you might need to add description also.

Or there is problem, because you're not having continous block of static ip's or something

[sidis405]

i just finished adding everything by hand through the gui.
Loads of entries.
So far so good. Still hasn't dropped anything.

Now i have some  news.
This was the 2nd time i added entries manually.
It blocked once. Deleted a bunch and restarted again, all from the gui.
And it was fine since-

Your remark about the comment section underlined something crucial-
Meanwhile it's not important to have a comment value, i should really have an opening tag now shouldn't it?

Would explain why it would get all weird about it.
Which then would imply the php-xml parser should be re-checked ;)

So, if if holds , and the mistake was mine (very gladly so), seems like i might have resolved my problem.

[Metu69salemi]

I'm sorry i can't explain that because i'm just normal user.. Not a dev or package maker

[sidis405]

It's all good :). Once i find some time i might take a look at the php code of the gui parser myself.

The box it's stable and in production now :)