Default gateway needs to be manually added with Sat Feb 9th Update

eri--

UPDATE: Upgrade to a newer snapshot or gitsync fixed, sorry for the noise.

phil.davis

Thanks Ermal. My test system worked because it had DHCP on WAN.
interfaces.inc interface_dhcp_configure() puts:

script "/sbin/dhclient-script";

into the DHCP client conf file.
When the DHCP address is received from upstream on the interface, and the interface is the default gateway, that script does:

$ROUTE add default -iface $interface

So the default route appeared OK on DHCP WAN interfaces, but not for those with static WAN IPs.

cybercare

@ermal:

UPDATE: Upgrade to a newer snapshot or gitsync fixed, sorry for the noise.

So the 2300 snapshot should have fixed this? If so it didn't :( or are you saying once a newer one is posted it will? :P

Thx

phil.davis

The change was only made a couple of hours ago - https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/9d595f6ad4527341741e75cdbbeafdcffd99d269. The 2300 snapshot will be too old. You can wait for a 10 Feb snapshot, gitsync or paste the extra 2 lines into /etc/inc/system.inc manually.

cybercare

@phil.davis:

The change was only made a couple of hours ago - https://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense/commit/9d595f6ad4527341741e75cdbbeafdcffd99d269. The 2300 snapshot will be too old. You can wait for a 10 Feb snapshot, gitsync or paste the extra 2 lines into /etc/inc/system.inc manually.

Okay, yeah I kinda figured that was the case as I saw the time he posted the message but the choice of words made me think otherwise :) you would think I know better by know lol.

Thanks for the confirmation though.

woodgee

Hello,

since Sat Feb 9th Update i lost the default routes for ipv4 + ipv6 on my pfsense ( version 2.1-BETA1 (amd64) ).
update to 10th Feb - 15th Feb can´t fix the problem.
after boot there is no default route in netstat -rn.
i can add the routes by executing

route add -inet6 default 1234:5687:9abc::1

and

route add -inet default 123.456.789.012

then it works to the next reboot.

my /etc/inc/system.inc


if ($gateway['ipprotocol'] != "inet6" && (is_ipaddrv4($gateway['gateway']) || $gateway['gateway'] == "dynamic")) {
					if(strstr($gateway['gateway'], ":"))
						continue;
					if ($gateway['gateway'] == "dynamic")
						$gateway['gateway'] = get_interface_gateway($gateway['interface']);
					$gatewayip = $gateway['gateway'];
					$interfacegw = $gateway['interface'];
					if (!empty($gateway['interface'])) {
						$defaultif = get_real_interface($gateway['interface']);
						if ($defaultif)
							@file_put_contents("{$g['tmp_path']}/{$defaultif}_defaultgw", $gateway['gateway']);
					}
					$foundgw = true;
				} else if ($gateway['ipprotocol'] == "inet6" && (is_ipaddrv6($gateway['gateway']) || $gateway['gateway'] == "dynamic6")) {
					if ($gateway['gateway'] == "dynamic6")
						$gateway['gateway'] = get_interface_gateway_v6($gateway['interface']);
					$gatewayipv6 = $gateway['gateway'];
					$interfacegwv6 = $gateway['interface'];
					if (!empty($gateway['interface'])) {
						$defaultifv6 = get_real_interface($gateway['interface']);
						if ($defaultifv6)
							@file_put_contents("{$g['tmp_path']}/{$defaultifv6}_defaultgwv6", $gateway['gateway']);
					}
					$foundgwv6 = true;

please tell me, how can i fix this problem.

THX

bmah

@woodgee:

Hello,

since Sat Feb 9th Update i lost the default routes for ipv4 + ipv6 on my pfsense ( version 2.1-BETA1 (amd64) ).
update to 10th Feb - 15th Feb can´t fix the problem.
after boot there is no default route in netstat -rn.
i can add the routes by executing
route add -inet6 default 1234:5687:9abc::1
and
route add -inet default 123.456.789.012
then it works to the next reboot.

If you see the tail end of this thread:

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,59005.0.html

I had a similar problem with a statically configured default IPv6 route. I appear to have "solved" this problem by going to the System -> Routing page and re-saving the configuration for my default IPv6 gateway. I don't know why, but after a reboot my default IPv6 route once again gets correctly installed. Try that for your gateways and see if that helps you. (I don't know why this worked for me.)

Bruce.

jimp

Bruce,

Check the config history and see what changed in the config when you pressed save. It's possible your gateway was missing an internal value that allowed it to function properly. This post is old but may be relevant: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50095.0.html

woodgee

thanks bruce,

by going to the System -> Routing page and re-saving the configuration for ipv4 and ipv6 solved my problem.
it works after reboot the system … ;D

bmah

@jimp:

Check the config history and see what changed in the config when you pressed save. It's possible your gateway was missing an internal value that allowed it to function properly. This post is old but may be relevant: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,50095.0.html

My config history doesn't show that change in it…it seems like the history doesn't go back far enough. Also I read through the thread you quoted...I don't recall ever experiencing a problem like that. In any case I'm happy with the way things are working right now.

Thanks,

Bruce.