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KEA DHCP crashed

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  • Q
    Qinn
    last edited by Dec 2, 2023, 3:33 PM

    With 2.7.1. release I have switched to KEA DHCP and today it it crashed. The only thing I can trace back (logs have 500 max entries) that service watchdog detected service kea-dhcp4 stopped. Restarting kea-dhcp4 (KEAS DHCP server) and this is repeated so many times that it clogged the logs, until I did a reboot of pfSense.

    Hardeware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) J4125 CPU @ 2.00GHz 102 GB mSATA SSD (ZFS)
    Firmware: Latest-stable-pfSense CE (amd64)
    Packages: pfBlockerNG devel-beta (beta tester) - Avahi - Notes - Ntopng - PIMD/udpbroadcastrelay - Service Watchdog - System Patches

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    • J
      Josho_SAI
      last edited by Josho_SAI Dec 7, 2023, 12:17 AM Dec 6, 2023, 11:54 PM

      This may be a similar issue

      I support several Netgate appliances with my work. One of the main regional offices hosts a Netgate 8200MAX unit with multiple VLAN's, active DHCP services with many leased IPv4 addresses assigned on each VLAN. The office also hosts many servers / services behind the firewall.

      I have attempted to change the DHCP service from ISC DHCP to KEA DHCP however when making the change, the DHCP IPv4 service stops and will not start.

      DHCP IPv6 (which is not being used but is enabled) shows the service as working. I have reverted the change back to ISC DHCP and immediately the DHCP IPv4 starts working again.

      I will attempt to change the DHCP service from ISC to KEA again soon and will capture logs to see whether the issue can be identified.

      Appliance: Netgate 8200MAX
      version: 23.09-RELEASE (amd64)
      Services:

      1. apcupds
      2. ISC dhcpd
      3. dpinger
      4. haproxy (disabled)
      5. iperf (disabled)
      6. ntpd
      7. nut
      8. openvpn
      9. radvd
      10. sshd
      11. syslogd
      12. tailscale (disabled)
      13. unbound

      (admin, please move this post to it's own thread if suitable)

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