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      dcaldessa
      last edited by

      Hello all

      I am new to pfSense and the community !

      I just set up pfSense 2.0.3 yesterday after installing two new 1gb intel nics

      After a nice smooth night of gaming, and such I wake up today and take a look at the system logs just to see how things
      are going and I noticed this..

      pfsense dhclient[44432]: DHCPREQUEST on em1 to 10.60.0.1 port 67

      now em1 is my WAN card…, my network internally is 192.x.x.x , so I am not sure where this request is coming from
      is there a way or method i can use to find out ?  Or can anyone give me some insight on what maybe going on..

      All settings are still at the defaults after a new install nothing else has been configured or changed.

      thanks for any suggestions/help in advance
      :)

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      • johnpozJ
        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
        last edited by

        Quite possible your wan dhcp server for ISP..  Look in your lease to see the IP of your ISP dhcp server.

        So for example mine is.

        –-
        lease {
         interface "em1";
         fixed-address 24.13.xx.xx;
         option subnet-mask 255.255.248.0;
         option routers 24.13.xx.xx;
         option domain-name-servers 75.75.75.75,75.75.76.76;
         option host-name "pfsense";
         option domain-name "hsd1.il.comcast.net.";
         option broadcast-address 255.255.255.255;
         option dhcp-lease-time 345600;
         option dhcp-message-type 5;
         option dhcp-server-identifier 69.252.202.7;
         renew 2 2013/3/19 04:04:42;
         rebind 3 2013/3/20 16:04:42;
         expire 4 2013/3/21 04:04:42;

        –-
        You can find your lease for you em1 interface in /var/db

        Looks to me just like your wan renewing its IP is all.  Just because your have a public IP on your your interface, does not mean your dhcp server has to be on a public IP address.

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          dcaldessa
          last edited by

          Thanks for the info,

          again new to all this , can you advise me on how to retrieve the suggested information ?

          thanks

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            just shell to your pfsense box and using the shell cat your /var/db/dhclient.leases.em1

            or using the gui use the file editor and look at the file, under diag menu, edit file

            Have to assume if you want interface is sending a dhcprequest to that IP, that is your dhcp server ;)  After it got an dhcpOFFER, after it sent out a dhcpDiscover.

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              dcaldessa
              last edited by

              Awsome

              thanks for the input and looks like you were correct ! …

              option dhcp-server-identifier 10.60.0.1;

              is in the file .

              again thanks for the help. will post again if I have anymore questions !

              D

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                np - glad I could be of help.

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                If you get confused: Listen to the Music Play
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