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Bug #14237

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Intermittent packet loss related to DHCP with Multi-WAN

Added by Nazar Mokrynskyi over 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Not a Bug
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
DHCP (IPv4)
Target version:
-
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Default
Affected Version:
2.7.0
Affected Architecture:

Description

I'm sorry for somewhat vague description, there might be actually a few issues here, described one the forum: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/176908/intermittent-packet-loss-related-to-dhcp-with-multi-wan

What I observe is that one WAN interface has 15 minutes DHCP lease time, pfSense tries to renew it every 7 minutes and quite often fails to do so.
As the result interface goes down, which quite often causes pfSense to break networking in a way that even its GUI is not available for some seconds (networking is dead completely: I can't SSH or ping either during this time).

TL;DR: I open pfSense for less than an hour and charts stop updating at some point due to networking issues to pfSense itself.

This cascade of events likely includes several bugs, I attached extra logs in forum thread mentioned above.
Configured category to DHCP for now.

This happened on 2.6.x, still happens on 2.7.0-DEVELOPMENT (built on Fri Mar 10 06:05:33 UTC 2023).
Happy to do additional testing, if it turns out there are a few issues, this can be used as an umbrella for them.


Files

dhcp-packetcapture.cap (2.42 KB) dhcp-packetcapture.cap DHCP packet capture covering time interval with packet loss Nazar Mokrynskyi, 04/17/2023 03:42 AM
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