I am currently using 3.391, and am very pleased thus far with the product. The problem I am having is with DHCP. I currently have a LAN with 6 WinXP machines and other Net devices as well. 2 of the XP machines I use static mappings in DHCP and the others are Dynamic. DHCP is working fine and I have no problems (other than it would be nice to manually remove a lease). My situation is this: In the Daemon Log I am getting the following message...continuously....
Feb 5 08:04:07 (none) dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.2.100 from 00:e0:18:ab:3d:03 via eth0
Feb 5 08:04:07 (none) dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.2.100 to 00:e0:18:ab:3d:03 via eth0
Feb 5 08:04:07 (none) dhcpd: send_packet: Operation not permitted
192.168.2.100 is a Static mapping of a client in DHCP and 00:e0:18:ab:3d:03 is the MAC address of the client as well.
It also happens with a few Dynamic clients and one other Static client.
The other occurrence from this is I have tried to create a rule to filter out DHCP communications because this was filling my logs. I set a service definition of
"DHCP UDP 67:68 67:68".
I then applied the rule at the end of my rules as follows
"Internal_Network DHCP Internal_Interface DROP".
After enabling the rule I go into Live Log and I am still getting packetfilter Violations for 67:68 UDP?!
08:04:07 192.168.2.1 67 -> 192.168.2.100 68 UDP
08:04:15 192.168.2.100 68 -> 255.255.255.255 67 UDP
These violations occur every 30 seconds. I have tried deleting and adding the rule again. I also enabled and disabled DHCP. I have also researched the problem on the Microsoft side (everything is not necessarily Astaros fault!!! :+)
I did discover an anomaly with Microsoft WinXP and DHCP if you have ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) enabled. Obviously I don’t have that enabled or why would I need a firewall? I tried using both Static and Dynamic addressing with DHCP and still the same problem. Also, this happens with different manufacture Nic Cards so the problem is not limited to the Nic or the driver. Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks !