I've discovered a bug in the way pfSense (or FreeBSD) handles DHCP. In my simple setup, my pfSense box receives a dynamic IP from its upstream router on the WAN side. As expected, it creates a route from its assigned IP to 127.0.0.1.
The problem is that when the IP expires and pfSense is assigned a different IP, the old route redirecting the previous IP to 127.0.0.1 is not deleted. This, of course, means that any other client on the WAN that receives the old IP will be unreachable from pfSense or any computer behind it. Obviously, the fix would be to assign a static IP to pfSense, but I figured I'd report the erroneous behavior anyway. (I actually discovered this a while ago; I upgraded to 1.2.3-RC1 and waited for my IP to time out so I could confirm the error.) -- Bryan Medsker [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
