On 04/28/2016 11:06 PM, Karl Fife wrote:

> I've been 'subdividing' some growing networks into multi-lan; guest,
> management networks etc.
>
> On every occasion I've observed that it has taken considerable time
> (perhaps 10 to 20 minutes) after the DHCP server begins issuing new
> leases (to hosts moved from the other interface) before they show in
> the DHCP lease table.    These hosts are successfully being issued  IP
> addresses in the new range, and their MAC's and IP's show up in the
> pfSense ARP table, plus I can see the activity in the DHCP log.   
> Restarting DHCPD doesn't seem to have an immediate effect.   So far,
> it seems most correlated with the passage of time.
>
> Naturally all of the hosts in all scenarios were moving from a
> different interface on the same router.  Some even had static
> reservations (that were deleted).   These have all been 2.2.6
> installations.  I may have the opportunity to re-factor as above on a
> 2.3 installation later this month.
>
> Any ideas what's happening here?  Am I waiting for ARP expiration or
> something?  Any way to speed up this process?
>
>
>

I was having issues like this but I thought that 2.2.6 fixed that.  I do
not see it in 2.3 anymore.  I would usually have to reboot.



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