Set interface(s) IP address from console did not work
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I reset my APU.1C to factory defaults and assigned interfaces at the console during boot - no problem.
Then I tried to use option 2) Set interface(s) IP address to set the LAN IP different from 192.168.1.1 (because when I plug in the WAN, this test system is on a home network that is already using 192.168.1.0/24).
All the questions were asked, the messages looked good, but actually no change happened.
I rebooted and tried again from the console, in case it was something to do with doing it directly after the first interface assign and boot - same result - all the questions and messages look good but no actual change implemented.
Here is the console output:*** Welcome to pfSense 2.2-BETA-nanobsd (amd64) on pfSense *** WAN (wan) -> re1 -> LAN (lan) -> re2 -> v4: 192.168.1.1/24 OPT1 (opt1) -> re0 -> 0) Logout (SSH only) 9) pfTop 1) Assign Interfaces 10) Filter Logs 2) Set interface(s) IP address 11) Restart webConfigurator 3) Reset webConfigurator password 12) pfSense Developer Shell 4) Reset to factory defaults 13) Upgrade from console 5) Reboot system 14) Enable Secure Shell (sshd) 6) Halt system 15) Restore recent configuration 7) Ping host 16) Restart PHP-FPM 8) Shell Enter an option: 2 Available interfaces: 1 - WAN (re1 - dhcp, dhcp6) 2 - LAN (re2 - static) 3 - OPT1 (re0) Enter the number of the interface you wish to configure: 2 Enter the new LAN IPv4 address. Press <enter>for none: > 10.52.0.1 Subnet masks are entered as bit counts (as in CIDR notation) in pfSense. e.g. 255.255.255.0 = 24 255.255.0.0 = 16 255.0.0.0 = 8 Enter the new LAN IPv4 subnet bit count: > 24 For a WAN, enter the new LAN IPv4 upstream gateway address. For a LAN, press <enter>for none: > Enter the new LAN IPv6 address. Press <enter>for none: > Do you want to enable the DHCP server on LAN? [y|n] y Enter the start address of the IPv4 client address range: 10.52.0.100 Enter the end address of the IPv4 client address range: 10.52.0.199 Disabling DHCPD...Done! Do you want to revert to HTTP as the webConfigurator protocol? (y/n) n Please wait while the changes are saved to LAN... Reloading filter... DHCPD... The IPv4 LAN address has been set to 10.52.0.1/24 You can now access the webConfigurator by opening the following URL in your web browser: https://10.52.0.1/ Press <enter>to continue. *** Welcome to pfSense 2.2-BETA-nanobsd (amd64) on pfSense *** WAN (wan) -> re1 -> LAN (lan) -> re2 -> v4: 192.168.1.1/24 OPT1 (opt1) -> re0 -> 0) Logout (SSH only) 9) pfTop 1) Assign Interfaces 10) Filter Logs 2) Set interface(s) IP address 11) Restart webConfigurator 3) Reset webConfigurator password 12) pfSense Developer Shell 4) Reset to factory defaults 13) Upgrade from console 5) Reboot system 14) Enable Secure Shell (sshd) 6) Halt system 15) Restore recent configuration 7) Ping host 16) Restart PHP-FPM 8) Shell Enter an option: 8 [2.2-BETA][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root: ifconfig re0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 00:0d:b9:33:88:88 inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe33:8888%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier re1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 00:0d:b9:33:88:89 inet6 fe80::20d:b9ff:fe33:8889%re1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 nd6 options=23 <performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier re2: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 00:0d:b9:33:88:8a inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::1:1%re2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>) status: active pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33144 pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500 syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on syncok: 1 lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384 options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536 nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>[2.2-BETA][root@pfSense.localdomain]/root:</performnud,auto_linklocal></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></promisc></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,accept_rtadv,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></enter></enter></enter></enter>I can't believe this does not work from the console. Has anyone else done this from the console recently?
I used the webGUI and wizard and it all happened fine.
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From debugging this, it runs all the code in write_config OK, I can see a new version of /cf/conf/config.xml - the same file is visible by a link through /conf/config.xml but the contents are just the old config.
It is as if the $config global never gets new values, and so write_config is just re-writing the same settings, and then they get implemented, which of course is a no-op.
Tried on an Alix running 2.2 also. Same issue, the config is rewritten but the only difference is log entry of the modification reason:diff /cf/conf/config.xml /cf/conf/backup/config-1414943510.xml 1321,1322c1321,1323 < <time>1414995073</time> < --- > <time>1414943510</time> > <description>> ]]></description> -
I noticed a couple of little things in etc/rc.initial.setlanip and put them in this pull request:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1324
This just tidies up some code, it does not fix the issue I am seeing! But IMO might as well improve the code as things are spotted. -
The problem comes whenever services_dhcpd_configure is called - the global $config gets reset from the actual current config, and any pending changes in the current process are lost.
It was introduced by commit https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/86ce2df7fdb04aa15f9fbeda91202c153e9d0cbd
services_dhcpdv4_configure() now does:require_once('pkg-utils.inc')and pkg-utils.inc does various stuff like:
if(file_exists("/cf/conf/use_xmlreader")) require_once("xmlreader.inc"); else require_once("xmlparse.inc");which seems to cause a reset of the $config variable.
The top-level code in rc.initial.setlanip really does not need to (and should not) implement any changes along the way - it should collect all the answers from the user, then write_config and then make all the necessary calls to routines to implement the changes on the running system. That will fix it.
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And this pull request fixes it:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1325
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Can confirm this behaviour, cannot assign a static WAN interface via console with the latest pfSense-memstick-2.2-BETA-amd64-20141101-1224.img
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The final version of the fix that was committed yesterday was:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1329
That should be in the latest snapshot by now.
It certainly was not fixed on 1 Nov. -
Ok, it's fixed with the newest snapshot ;D