Dhclient:FAIL
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Seeing this error: dhclient:FAIL in the log files of both our pfSense boxes (running CARP). It is logged 6 times in a row and then nothing for a minutes or so, then again 6 times and so on…
None of the interfaces (WAN, LAN or PFSYNC) is running DHCP, and there is another DHCP server on the internal network providing addresses. The 2 pfSense's are used as core router/NAT router and firewall, as well as running a bunch of ipsec tunnels...When I look in Status\Services it doesn't show dhclient as running (nor listed there at all) so I'm a bit confused as why this error is popping up. pfSense version is 2.0-RELEASE (AMD64).
Any suggestions?
Regards,
Anders -
None of the interfaces (WAN, LAN or PFSYNC) is running DHCP,
That would be DHCP server.
Seeing this error: dhclient:FAIL in the log files of both our pfSense boxes
That suggests you have (or had) at least one interface that requested configuration information (including IP address) from a DHCP server.
When I look in Status\Services it doesn't show dhclient as running (nor listed there at all)
Services are offered by servers. dhclient is not considered a service (it issues requests to a server) so it won't be listed as a service.
Any suggestions?
Post the output of pfSense shell command ps ax | grep dhclient (since dhclient apparently exits and restarts about a minute later you might have to repeat this command a number of times to see anything other than the grep process). This should identify the interface(s) on which dhclient is running.
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Hi,
the output of ps ax command is the following:
9266 ?? INs 0:54.56 dhclient: bge0 [priv] (dhclient)
37162 ?? SNs 4:30.68 dhclient: bge0 (dhclient)
37507 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep dhclientWhich I assume tells me that it's the interface named BGE0 that is running the dhclient. The odd thing is that this interface has never had a DHCP address nor is a DHCP server available on that interface.
Regards,
Anders -
Which I assume tells me that it's the interface named BGE0 that is running the dhclient.
dhclient is running to issue DHCP requests on interface bge0.
The odd thing is that this interface has never had a DHCP address nor is a DHCP server available on that interface.
It would appear that interface bge0 is (or was?) configured in pfSense with Type=DHCP. If the current configuration doesn't have Type=DHCP then try rebooting and see if dhclient starts again.
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It would appear that interface bge0 is (or was?) configured in pfSense with Type=DHCP. If the current configuration doesn't have Type=DHCP then try rebooting and see if dhclient starts again.
I had the backup node in the CARP cluster offline yesterday for another reason, and after it came online again the DHCLIENT errors went away on that. When I have a chance to do this with the master node it would seem that it would make the error go away here as well.
Regards,
Anders -
It's probably just this:
http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2212
Safe to ignore, but if you don't have any interfaces that get their IP from DHCP, you can just: killall -9 dhclient
