[CALL FOR TESTING] DHCP renewal without alias change propagation

[franco]

Hi,

There's a ticket here talking about spurious execution of the "newwanip" scripting and likely short service interruption:

https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/10988

It was identified to be about dhclient's use of the local alias, which in hindsight might not even be interesting to "newwanip" scripting which takes care of setting up the route to the Internet.  The patch can be installed with:

# opnsense-patch https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/633a81ba1b

And it already runs on the development versions.

If anyone else with DHCPv4 could try it and report back that would be great. It needs a reconnect or reboot. If something goes wrong just run the command again to remove the patch.

The theory is the impact on connectivity is none or slightly better but it's never been tested out in the wild so here we are.  :)


Thanks,
Franco

[mschaeffler]

just installed the patch.