Hi, No replies, so I'm posting it again. We're just looking for some feedback...
We have complaints that (during peak hours) users have difficulties connecting to our packetfence 5.6.1 system, inline mode, running on debian 7. Here is our email from two days ago again: We have occasional problems with devices that cannot connect. The logs on the clientdevice indicate that client dhcp is trying to obtain an address: > May 23 17:07:56 T430s dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 10.19.227.120 on eth0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x70d4fac) > May 23 17:08:02 T430s dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 10.19.227.120 on eth0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x762d63ef) > May 23 17:08:17 T430s dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 10.19.227.120 on eth0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x399c2476) However: NONE of the above requests are logged in the pfdhcplistener.log file. When the client tries again a fourth time: > May 23 17:08:20 T430s dhclient: DHCPREQUEST of 10.19.227.120 on eth0 to > 255.255.255.255 port 67 (xid=0x399c2476) THEN suddenly this request IS detected and logged in pfdhcplistener.log: > May 23 17:08:20 pfqueue(21972) INFO: [mac:unknown] DHCPREQUEST from > 3c:97:0e:2f:14:f8 (10.19.227.120) (pf::dhcp::processor::parse_dhcp_request) > May 23 17:08:22 pfqueue(21972) INFO: [mac:3c:97:0e:2f:14:f8] > 3c:97:0e:2f:14:f8 requested an IP with the following informations: last_dhcp > = 2016-05-23 17:08:20,computername = T430s,dhcp_fingerprint = > 1,28,2,3,15,6,119,12,44,47,26,121,42,121,249,33,252,42,dhcp_vendor = > (pf::dhcp::processor::process_packet) and this request is also answered, and my client can connect: > May 23 17:08:21 T430s dhclient: DHCPACK of 10.19.227.120 from 10.19.0.1 > May 23 17:08:21 T430s dhclient: bound to 10.19.227.120 -- renewal in 7226165 > seconds. Our question: Is it expected that so many requests (we have more examples like this) go 'unnoticed' in pfdhcplistener.log, and also seem to be left unanswered? (should we check different logfiles, perhaps?) Are we on to something, or are we looking in the wrong files..? (or misunderstanding packetfence workings..?) Is there a maximum number of dhcp requests packetfence can handle..? (we're talking perhaps 200 clients inline, that's not too much, I guess..?) Feedback would be appreciated! MJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
