New user have some questions

[dcaldessa]

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
:)

[johnpoz]

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.

[dcaldessa]

Thanks for the info,

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

thanks

[johnpoz]

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.

[dcaldessa]

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

[johnpoz]

np - glad I could be of help.