On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:05 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.)
>

dhclient never adds routes other than the default. Are you using
multi-WAN load balancing pools?

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