Hi, I understand that I can turn off dhcp6 at the interfaces page, but the web page is not very well reachable if dhcp is blasting at full speed. Especially not if one is a newb without too much experience.
Frans. > Date: Mon, 02 May 2016 10:31:47 +0000 > From: Cheyenne Deal <deal.cheye...@gmail.com> > To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List > <list@lists.pfsense.org> > Subject: Re: [pfSense] pfsense: first experience/first problem > Message-ID: > <CAKwMODA-OBUzdHLeSfA8D+kuupSvoAfX0e=xPfd5Ur= > 7uyg...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > You can turn off dhcp6 on the interfaces page > > On Mon, May 2, 2016, 02:55 Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbro...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Last weekend I started with pfsense and during that I immediately > > encountered an issue that I would like to report here (assuming this is > the > > right place to do so). > > > > What happened was that after installing the WAN port got an IPv4 address > > over DHCP but kept on spawning DHCPv6 requests at a rate that totally > > swamped my network. > > I'm not sure if it should be sending DHCPv6 requests at all after > getting a > > v4 address (there is no DHCPv6 server in my network), but in any case the > > rate of the requests was way too fast. > > > > I managed to get rid of it by doing something like pfctl -d (forgot the > > exact incantation, someone on irc suggested this); then after a pfctl -e > > the issue was gone (maybe it would also be gone after a reboot, didn't > try > > that). > > > > This may be something someone wants to look into as it is a really bad > > initial experience. > > > > Best regards, Frans. > > > > PS: is it possible to get access of the latest version of the book > without > > being a gold member? I'm a home user; not looking for a freebee but $ > 99/yr > > is a bit too steep for me especially now when I am still investigating > > whether this is the right tool for me. > > _______________________________________________ > > pfSense mailing list > > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold > > > _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
