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Title: Router Advertisements left in RED on dashboard
Post by: mokaz on February 17, 2026, 08:55:42 AM
Hi all,

Thanks for 26.1, migrated 6 nodes interlinked with full meshed WG + BGP on FRR etc all top notch, not a glitch! Excellent.

On one node though, I'm seeing the "Router Advertisements" listed within the "Services" widget in red and stopped (expected) while on all the other nodes the "Router Advertisements" isn't listed at all within the services widget. I do not have any configuration in there in regards to "Router Advertisements" (on any of my nodes that is). Is there anything I could check/assess here?

RA-svc-widget.png

One last quick question, what's the idea with "Firewall > Rules [new]" and "Firewall > Rules"? Will these two merge at some point? I migrated all my rules to the new scheme and find both menus now to be a source of confusion now.

Thanks for OPNsense, it rocks !

Cheers,
m.

Title: Re: Router Advertisements left in RED on dashboard
Post by: franco on February 17, 2026, 09:01:46 AM
As long as you have a WAN set to "DHCPv6" mode and any "Track Interface" configurations Radvd will try to start, but fail if your WAN does not provide IPv6.

I think you can also see by viewing the configuration file which will list the interfaces affected:

# cat /var/etc/radvd.conf


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: Router Advertisements left in RED on dashboard
Post by: mokaz on February 17, 2026, 06:55:44 PM
Hi Franco,

Thanks a lot for your update, I've checked the /etc/etc/radvd.conf file which essentially (aside two commented initial lines) is empty..
I'll check this out as I know that on this node I'm full on DHCP on the WAN interfaces (note the S).

Thanks again for your wonderful work all around OPNsense, this piece of kit is smashing really !

Cheers,
m.
Title: Re: Router Advertisements left in RED on dashboard
Post by: franco on February 17, 2026, 08:47:55 PM
> I've checked the /etc/etc/radvd.conf file which essentially (aside two commented initial lines) is empty..

Well, the comments tell you which interface it tried (and failed) to get a configuration for if you want to dig deeper.

In any case... nice to year.  :)


Cheers,
Franco
Title: Re: Router Advertisements left in RED on dashboard
Post by: mokaz on February 17, 2026, 11:21:03 PM
Hey hey, indeed...

bob@ons:~ $ cat /var/etc/radvd.conf
# Automatically generated, do not edit
# Skipping defunct interface lan

"lan" is pretty much always removed here in favor of VLANs etc..