You can turn off dhcp6 on the interfaces page On Mon, May 2, 2016, 02:55 Frans Meulenbroeks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Last weekend I started with pfsense and during that I immediately > encountered an issue that I would like to report here (assuming this is the > right place to do so). > > What happened was that after installing the WAN port got an IPv4 address > over DHCP but kept on spawning DHCPv6 requests at a rate that totally > swamped my network. > I'm not sure if it should be sending DHCPv6 requests at all after getting a > v4 address (there is no DHCPv6 server in my network), but in any case the > rate of the requests was way too fast. > > I managed to get rid of it by doing something like pfctl -d (forgot the > exact incantation, someone on irc suggested this); then after a pfctl -e > the issue was gone (maybe it would also be gone after a reboot, didn't try > that). > > This may be something someone wants to look into as it is a really bad > initial experience. > > Best regards, Frans. > > PS: is it possible to get access of the latest version of the book without > being a gold member? I'm a home user; not looking for a freebee but $ 99/yr > is a bit too steep for me especially now when I am still investigating > whether this is the right tool for me. > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
