pfSense

It took a 24 hours and 30 configuration changes to be noticed, so I don't know exactly what I did (I'm a newb in pfSense, and trying to make something everyone says is easy, work). The symptoms were DHCP stopped working on my system and the DHCP System Log contained:

Feb 12 20:32:46 dhcpd 4463 /etc/dhcpd.conf line 62: semicolon expected.
Feb 12 20:32:46 dhcpd 4463 option custom-s_lan_4-0 4,
Feb 12 20:32:46 dhcpd 4463 ^
Feb 12 20:32:46 dhcpd 4463 Configuration file errors encountered -- exiting

after that it showed several lines of how to report bugs to isc.org, and then:

Feb 12 22:32:46 dhcpd 74267 exiting.

I reported it to https://forum.netgate.com/topic/177806/dhcpd-stopped-working-fixed-but-trying-to-figure-it-out where eventually I was told to report it as a bug.

My system is an older HP mini pc I rescued from the recycle at one of my jobs, it is an i5-6500 with 16GB ram and 256GB SSD and an onboard intel em driver Ethernet port. I bought and installed a 4 port bge driver BCM5719 chipset pcie card as well. I am using the em0 as WAN, bge0 as LAN, opt1 (LANGARAGE) bge0 as second LAN, and opt3 bge3 as WAN2.

When I discovered the problem I kept reverting to older and older backups until # 30 fixed the problem, # 29 has the problem. I have included both those backup files, as well as the diff file between them, and the dhcpd.conf files created by each of them, marked appropriately.

I hope I got all the information you need to figure it out. Being a Windows C++ programmer I know how hard it is to get full bug information, but being total newb in pfSense and FreeBSD I'm sure I've missed something, so feel free to email or call me if there is anything else I can do to help.

My business email is best to get me at Corey@EntecSystems.net, put pfSense somewhere in the subject, or my cell phone is 818-535-1979.

C.