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Bug #996

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DHCP address not pulled with spoofed MAC address on WAN

Added by Ron Rosen about 14 years ago. Updated almost 14 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
Interfaces
Target version:
2.0
Start date:
11/04/2010
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Estimated time:
Plus Target Version:
Release Notes:
Affected Version:
2.0
Affected Architecture:

Description

Replaced production router ("old router") with pfSense 2.0BETA4 router ("test router" - 02-Nov-2010 snapshot) on broadband connection - FIOS, as it happens. No DHCP lease was issued since ISP only issues one DHCP lease per port.

Spoofed old router’s WAN MAC address with test router’s WAN connection, then forced a DHCP renew from the Interface Status page. This should have resulted in a DHCP address being issued. Observed result was that ISP would issue a DHCP address, test router would process it, but then revert to “unassigned” status.

Cleared spoofed MAC address from test router’s WAN connection, which does not result in MAC address being reset to native hardware value (see point “l” in [[http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,25342.msg131434.html#msg131434]] for additional information). After applying this setting, DHCP address is successfully pulled.

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