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Title: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments (Solved)
Post by: techyporcupine on November 20, 2024, 03:16:42 PM
Hello! I just recently set up HE's Tunnel Broker for IPv6 on my OPNsense install, and have it working for the most part, except devices only get IPv6 addresses after being connected for a couple of minutes, and I can see devices sending Neighbor Advertisements with TCPdump, but the router doesn't respond, and the devices only get V6 IP's after an unsolicited advertisement.

A screenshot of the RA page is attached.
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: meyergru on November 21, 2024, 12:27:29 AM
Is this on a VM by any chance? There is a known IPv6 multicast problem in Linux networking (see here (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/ipv6-neighbor-solicitation-not-forwarded-to-vm.96758/)).
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:09:30 AM
This is actually on a VM running on Proxmox. I was about to update this post, but I switched from using PCI passthrough for the NICs to a Bridge in Proxmox and now the issue seems resolved?!
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: meyergru on November 21, 2024, 10:03:20 AM
I would use vtnet, because it is faster than the emulation these days and also would disable multicast snooping for good measure. In my experiments, it always worked for a few minutes and then failed.
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:04:29 PM
It's still going strong with the Linux bridge config! I think I'll just leave it like this now, because I don't seem to be having any problems. I wonder if maybe the Realtek NICs were a problem before?
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: meyergru on November 21, 2024, 01:18:47 PM
Quote from: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:04:29 PM
It's still going strong with the Linux bridge config! I think I'll just leave it like this now, because I don't seem to be having any problems. I wonder if maybe the Realtek NICs were a problem before?

FreeBSD Realtek drivers have been known to cause problems in the past. By using them bridged, you do not have to rely on FreeBSD drivers. Matter-of-fact, the vtnet drivers are often more performant than FreeBSD native drivers.
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:19:53 PM
Oh wonderful! I think I'll mark this as solved!
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments (Solved)
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:20:33 PM
Marking as solved.
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:21:06 PM
Nevermind I don't actually think I can mark it as solved
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments
Post by: meyergru on November 21, 2024, 01:31:02 PM
You can edit the thread title. BTW: Did you see this (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=44159)?
Title: Re: 24.7.7 - Not responding to IPv6 Neighbor Advertisments (Solved)
Post by: techyporcupine on November 21, 2024, 01:56:07 PM
I did not! I saw a couple similar ones but not that!