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

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      sullrich
      last edited by

      It does not solve it, it simply works around the issue for the time being.  Anyone else tested?

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        Selective
        last edited by

        i know, but i think there is two errors,
        first, when it failes to update the wan ip, that have been "solved" with the script.
        but the second with "short write" will not be solved by this, i think.

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          Selective
          last edited by

          i can confirm that the new script (rc.newwanip) is working great !!! ;D :D ;D

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            sullrich
            last edited by

            Yay!  Anyone else?

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              fireseller
              last edited by

              Sorry but the new script is NOT running great, after 1 day again the connection got lost:
              Dec 20 05:59:32 last message repeated 3 times
              Dec 20 05:59:12 dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied
              Dec 20 05:52:02 last message repeated 2 times
              Dec 20 05:51:51 dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: exiting.
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: exiting.
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: short write: wanted 21 got 0 bytes
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: short write: wanted 21 got 0 bytes
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: DHCPACK from 10.215.0.1
              Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
              Dec 20 01:50:24 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 10.215.0.1 port 67
              Dec 20 01:49:37 last message repeated 24 times
              Dec 20 01:38:42 last message repeated 14 times
              Dec 20 01:29:57 last message repeated 4 times
              Dec 20 01:28:08 last message repeated 2 times
              Dec 20 01:27:48 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 10.215.0.1 port 67
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : phpDynDNS: No Change In My IP Address and/or 25 Days Has Not Past. Not Updating Dynamic DNS Entry.
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Cached IP: 84.75.14.209
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Current WAN IP: 84.75.14.209
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: _detectChange() starting.
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: updatedns() starting
              Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Running updatedns()

              This is starting to be render PFSense unusable for me. Every 30 bucks router can keep the ip from my isp for several months (last setup). Is it not possible to use the dhclient from the pre 1.0 versions???

              Sorry for no better news.

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                fireseller
                last edited by

                As this problem gives biggest headaches to me, I've decided to use my linux server to run this via cronjob every minute:

                wget -q –no-check-certificate --user=XXX --password=XXX --post-data "interface=wan&submit=Renew" http://IPOFPFSENSEGUI/status_interfaces.php -O /dev/null

                This works fine for now. Hopefully the real solution to repair the dhclient will soon be there…

                Cheers
                fireseller

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                  sullrich
                  last edited by

                  @fireseller:

                  Sorry but the new script is NOT running great, after 1 day again the connection got lost:
                  Dec 20 05:59:32 last message repeated 3 times
                  Dec 20 05:59:12 dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied
                  Dec 20 05:52:02 last message repeated 2 times
                  Dec 20 05:51:51 dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: exiting.
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: exiting.
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: short write: wanted 21 got 0 bytes
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: short write: wanted 21 got 0 bytes
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: DHCPACK from 10.215.0.1
                  Dec 20 01:52:17 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
                  Dec 20 01:50:24 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 10.215.0.1 port 67
                  Dec 20 01:49:37 last message repeated 24 times
                  Dec 20 01:38:42 last message repeated 14 times
                  Dec 20 01:29:57 last message repeated 4 times
                  Dec 20 01:28:08 last message repeated 2 times
                  Dec 20 01:27:48 dhclient[268]: DHCPREQUEST on xl1 to 10.215.0.1 port 67
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : phpDynDNS: No Change In My IP Address and/or 25 Days Has Not Past. Not Updating Dynamic DNS Entry.
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Cached IP: 84.75.14.209
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Current WAN IP: 84.75.14.209
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: _detectChange() starting.
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: updatedns() starting
                  Dec 20 01:01:03 php: : DynDns: Running updatedns()

                  This is starting to be render PFSense unusable for me. Every 30 bucks router can keep the ip from my isp for several months (last setup). Is it not possible to use the dhclient from the pre 1.0 versions???

                  Sorry for no better news.

                  Then use a 30$ router!  I am interested in constructive feedback, not Mr. Obvious taglines!

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                    fireseller
                    last edited by

                    Sorry sullrich

                    My apologies. I'm sticking with PFSense. You're doing great work.

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                      sullrich
                      last edited by

                      Unfortunately we are using the same dhclient that we used prior to 1.0.  So nothing has changed in this regard.

                      But I do have an idea.  Give me some moments, I would like to test ISC-DHCLIENT again and see how much work it's going to be to dump the OpenBSD dhclient that FreeBSD imported.

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                        fireseller
                        last edited by

                        Thx alot. Due to the workaround I've got plenty of time now. Please let me know when there's something I can contribute / test in order to help.
                        I'll watch this thread anyway.

                        Cheers

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                          sullrich
                          last edited by

                          From a shell, issue this command (full installations only!):

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

                          Sit back and let it do it's thing.

                          After it is done, issue shutdown -r now or reboot from the webConfigurator or option #5.

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                            fireseller
                            last edited by

                            Hi sullrich

                            I've just issued:
                            fetch -q -o - http://www.pfsense.com/~sullrich/tools/cvs_sync.sh | sh

                            and got:

                            Setting CVS_IP to cvs.pfsense.com
                            Cannot find cvsup, pkg_add in progress
                            Cannot find cvs, fetching static cvs…
                            /usr/bin/cvs                                  100% of 1528 kB  187 kBps
                            Syncing with pfSense.com
                            Checking out RELENG_1
                            Connected to cvs.pfsense.com
                            Updating collection pfSenseHEAD/cvs
                            Mkdir CVSROOT
                            Create CVSROOT/.#activitymail
                            Create CVSROOT/.#avail
                            Create CVSROOT/.#checkoutlist
                            Create CVSROOT/.#ciabot_cvs.pl
                            Create CVSROOT/.#commitinfo
                            Create CVSROOT/.#config
                            Create CVSROOT/.#cvs_acls.pl
                            Create CVSROOT/.#cvswrappers
                            Create CVSROOT/.#editinfo
                            Create CVSROOT/.#loginfo
                            Create CVSROOT/.#modules
                            Create CVSROOT/.#notify
                            Create CVSROOT/.#precia.pl
                            Create CVSROOT/.#rcsinfo
                            Create CVSROOT/.#rel_check.php
                            Create CVSROOT/.#taginfo
                            Create CVSROOT/.#test_commit.php
                            Create CVSROOT/.#verifymsg
                            Mkdir CVSROOT/CVSROOT
                            Create CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cfg.pm
                            Create CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cfg_local.pm
                            SetAttrs CVSROOT/CVSROOT
                            Mkdir CVSROOT/Emptydir
                            SetAttrs CVSROOT/Emptydir
                            Create CVSROOT/activitymail
                            Create CVSROOT/activitymail,v
                            Create CVSROOT/avail
                            Create CVSROOT/avail,v
                            Create CVSROOT/cfg.pm
                            Create CVSROOT/cfg_local.pm
                            Create CVSROOT/checkoutlist
                            Create CVSROOT/checkoutlist,v
                            Create CVSROOT/ciabot_cvs.pl
                            Create CVSROOT/ciabot_cvs.pl,v
                            Create CVSROOT/commitinfo
                            Create CVSROOT/commitinfo,v
                            Mkdir CVSROOT/commitlogs
                            Create CVSROOT/commitlogs/misc
                            SetAttrs CVSROOT/commitlogs
                            Create CVSROOT/config
                            Create CVSROOT/config,v
                            Create CVSROOT/cvs_acls.pl
                            Create CVSROOT/cvs_acls.pl,v
                            Create CVSROOT/cvswrappers
                            Create CVSROOT/cvswrappers,v
                            Create CVSROOT/editinfo
                            Create CVSROOT/editinfo,v
                            Create CVSROOT/history
                            Detailer failed: Network write failure: Invalid argument
                            Will retry at 13:23:48

                            Somethings wrong?

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                              hoba
                              last edited by

                              You can cancel your upgrade for now. We found some remaining issues with the new dhclient (some things still have to be changed due to different syntax). It's working on reboot though. We'll test some more things later and post when we have a new version to try.

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                                fireseller
                                last edited by

                                okey. Just rebooted. Everything works as before…

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                                  sullrich
                                  last edited by

                                  Everything should be working.  We really need ppl to test Optional WAN + DHCP more than anything at this point.  We are using the same code for dhclient as m0n0 1.3b1 now so I think it is correct.

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                                    fireseller
                                    last edited by

                                    Have you made an update to the cvs?

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                                      sullrich
                                      last edited by

                                      Yes, rerun the command I mentioned prior.

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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
                                          last edited by

                                          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
                                            last edited by

                                            @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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