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20.7 Legacy Series / Re: Updated to OPNsense 20.7.b_156-amd64, dhcpd6 not starting
« on: May 24, 2020, 01:11:53 am »That's perfectly normal.Understood. OPNsense is receiving RA messages, so I'm not clear why the gateway status on the dashboard reports the address as ~ rather than the actual address.
Under the original pfSense, and this is where Opnsense was forked from so it suffered from the same problem, with certain ISPs you needed to send a dhcp6 solicit before router advertisements or should I says you had to send both independently. Now, the problem was that pfSense would wait for a advertisement response before it launched dhcp6c, thus no advertisement response, no dhcp6c. Now, my original fix on pfSense was to to give the option to launch dhcpc6 regardless of the state of the advertisements, but the option was also added to turn that on and off.
Franco and co did some research and found that it causes no issues with ISPs that don't require it and works fine with those that do - so now the option to disable it has been removed and you could say it's permanently on, in fact they both run pretty much simultaneously.