Dhclient: FAIL in system log

nienberg · Oct 31, 2012, 9:43 PM

I have pfSense set up with 2 WAN connections (named WAN and CMST) and a local LAN connection.

The WAN interface uses a static public IP.
The CMST interface gets its configuration using DHCP from a Comcast cable router, which gives it a private IP (so yes, there is double NAT as a result).

The LAN interface uses a static private address (different subnet than the CMST interface).

Everything is working just fine, but in the System Log, this appears every minute.

dhclient: FAIL

Is it anything to worry about? Can I do something to make it quiet down so the other log messages are not lost in the sea of dhclient messages?

Thanks,

wallabybob · Oct 31, 2012, 11:39 PM

@nienberg:

Everything is working just fine, but in the System Log, this appears every minute.

dhclient: FAIL

Is that all the message? It is almost entirely uninformative.

nienberg · Nov 1, 2012, 12:22 AM

Yes. That is all it says. About once per minute.

jimp · Nov 5, 2012, 1:18 PM

Probably somehow the dhclient is still running on your static IP wan, and you haven't rebooted since you set that up.

That bug has been around a while, should be fixed on 2.1/2.0.2 as far as I know.

nienberg · Nov 5, 2012, 4:54 PM

Hey, you're right! I rebooted and the problem went away.

Thanks for the help.