Your pdhcplistener is doing what it’s meant to do: listen to dhcp requests and log the replies. It’s usage will be proportial to the number of such request/replies it sees.
> > My pfdhcplistener log is going nuts during this time. I have several lines > per second. This is all within a second: > > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.87' to MAC > address '00:17:f2:39:51:f8' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:17:f2:39:51:f8 requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:31,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:16:cb:b3:30:5a (10.129.100.88) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:16:cb:b3:30:5a' to > IP address '10.129.100.88' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.88' to MAC > address '00:16:cb:b3:30:5a' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 04:0c:ce:1b:28:11 requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 04:0c:ce:1b:28:11 (10.129.100.74) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '04:0c:ce:1b:28:11' to > IP address '10.129.100.74' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:16:cb:b3:1f:7e requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.74' to MAC > address '04:0c:ce:1b:28:11' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:26:08:fe:23:9c requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:16:cb:b3:1f:7e (10.129.100.38) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:16:cb:b3:1f:7e' to > IP address '10.129.100.38' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.38' to MAC > address '00:16:cb:b3:1f:7e' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:23:12:25:de:2e requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host a0:02:dc:b7:73:f9 (10.129.100.33) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 04:0c:ce:1a:a5:d1 requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = ,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC 'a0:02:dc:b7:73:f9' to > IP address '10.129.100.33' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.33' to MAC > address 'a0:02:dc:b7:73:f9' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:23:12:25:de:2e (10.129.100.73) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:23:12:25:de:2e' to > IP address '10.129.100.73' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.73' to MAC > address '00:23:12:25:de:2e' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:26:08:fe:23:9c (10.129.100.71) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:26:08:fe:23:9c' to > IP address '10.129.100.71' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.71' to MAC > address '00:26:08:fe:23:9c' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:26:08:fc:ef:2b requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = Class12a14-15,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:17:f2:39:51:f8 (10.129.100.87) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:17:f2:39:51:f8' to > IP address '10.129.100.87' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched IP '10.129.100.87' to MAC > address '00:17:f2:39:51:f8' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::ip2mac) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:26:08:fc:ef:2b requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = Class12a14-15,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: DHCPACK from 10.128.100.254 > (00:66:01:32:00:05) to host 00:16:cb:b3:30:5a (10.129.100.88) for 5 seconds > (main::parse_dhcp_ack) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8567) INFO: Matched MAC '00:16:cb:b3:30:5a' to > IP address '10.129.100.88' using OMAPI (pf::iplog::mac2ip) > Oct 16 10:18:32 pfdhcplistener(8571) INFO: 00:26:08:fc:ef:2b requested an IP > with the following informations: last_dhcp = 2015-10-16 10:18:32,computername > = Class12a14-15,dhcp_fingerprint = 1,3,6,15,119,95,252,44,46,47,dhcp_vendor = > (main::listen_dhcp) > > > Is that normal? > > Thanks for the help. > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Louis Munro <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Which issue exactly? > > If we are talking about pfdhcplistener stopping when you restart the database > that is considered normal behaviour. > MySQL is not a PF managed service. > Services that depend on it may stop if they can’t connect to the database. > That is an unfortunate fact of life. > > You should always check the status of all services after a database restart. > Database restarts should be few and far between anyway. > >
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