PfSense 2.0-Release dhcp client issue
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Hello,
I've attached part of my system log below, but to summarize: It appears that the dhcp client sends renewal requests directly to the last IP that it successfully received a lease from…every minute or so for up to several hours ... before finally doing a DHCPREQUEST broadcast. It further appears that my ISP's dhcp server only responds to DHCPREQUEST broadcasts and not a direct request to it's IP address.
I'm not sure what the correct behavior should be on either end, but is there a way to configure pfSense to always do a broadcast at renewal vs. attempting to send a request to the IP of the last dhcp server it got a lease from? Alternatively, is there a way to configure the number of direct dhcp renewal requests it should attempt before doing a broadcast? Or is everything "working as designed"? :)
Thanks...
Oct 14 10:56:30 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 10.122.176.1 port 67 Oct 14 10:56:59 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 10.122.176.1 port 67 Oct 14 10:57:42 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 10.122.176.1 port 67 Oct 14 10:58:58 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 10.122.176.1 port 67 Oct 14 11:01:50 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 10.122.176.1 port 67 Oct 14 11:03:59 dhclient[26820]: DHCPREQUEST on em2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 Oct 14 11:03:59 dhclient[26820]: DHCPACK from 10.122.176.1 Oct 14 11:03:59 dhclient: RENEW Oct 14 11:03:59 dhclient: Creating resolv.conf Oct 14 11:03:59 dhclient[26820]: bound to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -- renewal in 20813 seconds.