[SOLVED] : Configuration saved but not applied

vaskotoo

Solution : The problem described bellow was caused by a package named "iperf" , by removing this package the problem was eliminated on both machines.

Hey everyone.

I am working with pfsense as a firewall to the internal network, producing all the needed connectivity.
We had a really old server that runs the Pfsense, we decide to terminate that one and put it on a new one. So I made a full backup and apply that backup to a fresh installation of pfsense on a VMware(temporary) but it worked perfectly! Then the new hardware came and we moved the configuration setup from the VMware to a fresh installation of pfsense on the new hardware(final place for the pfsense) . Everything worked like it should, BUT! I add a new interface and setup a DHCP, but the interface does not provide IP's , today I try to add a new machine to one of the current networks, It did save the mapping but did not apply it to the new machien.

I see that after the backup from another machine, any changes I do are saved in the configuration files but they are not applied by the system. I am suspecting a permissions problem, but I am not sure how can I check that.

Version : 2.2.4-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Sat Jul 25 19:57:37 CDT 2015
FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p15

vaskotoo

UPDATE:

I have reboot the system and all the configuration changes were executed. The new interface DHCP I have add before the restart worked like it should, I then had to changed the address and that update worked too. Now I have to change the address again, I changed it and reset the DHCP services, that did not made the DHCP to work properly, it keeps on providing the old address pool, but when I staticly enter the address, everything work like it should.
The /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf receive the proper configuration bur the deamon somehow does not read it ?

vaskotoo

I have went back to the old machine that was working like it should, but apperantly the same thing happen to it as well.
The only thing I did was remove tftp package. I bring it back afterwards but that did not change a thing.
So I found post that brings a clue - http://serverfault.com/questions/506592/pfense-needs-to-be-rebooted-to-effect-a-change-in-existing-nat

So what I did was I run - /etc/rc.filter_configure_sync

And then I check the system logs and I found the updates performed :
Oct 22 13:11:42 php: rc.filter_configure_sync: Adding TFTP nat rules
Oct 22 13:11:42 php: rc.filter_configure_sync: Adding TFTP nat rules

So regardless of how much I run this, it always do that.
I do have now problem with the TFTP, I have add another TFTP server and change the address to that TFTP server and the configuration its not working until I reboot the system.

I have factory reset a machine with pfsense and try to change something on the DHCP , map an IP and no result till reboot.
How I can fix this problem ?