radvd shown as not started in dashboard while no IPV6 configuration at all

Started by dinguz, August 02, 2022, 08:11:29 PM

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I have played around with IPV6, but couldn't get it to work right for reasons outside OPNsense*. So I disabled all IPV6 in interfaces. The only thing I'm stuck with is radvd which is shown in red (not running) in the OPNsense dashboard. But before I enabled IPV6 it wasn't there at all. Did I forget to disable something?

* the issue I'm running into is that my provider uses multicast based IPTV, and recommends the use of network switches with IGMP snooping enabled. But as I found out, most consumer grade switches that offer IGMP snooping use an implementation that is not compatible with IPV6.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.


I have checked them each, and they're all set to 'none'.
Is removing IPV6 configuration from all interfaces enough to automatically disable radvd, or do I - for example - need to remove all IPV6 fw rules, or other things as well? Radvd is no longer visible in the services menu, it only shows as red / not running in the dashboard.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Did you use manual override setting on LAN interface WRT DHCPv6/RA? It may still be picking up on the fact  that it was specifically enabled but now you can't see / reach it.

Well, I reinstated the previous config in order to be able to access the radvd service page again, as well as the interface-specific menu items. It's just that I played around with too many settings, so now I don't remember what the defaults were.
Is there a way by removing (part of) of a config file(s) so that I get back to a clean slate?
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

In the /conf/config.xml set

<ramode>disabled</ramode>

where ramode exists... It's probably set to something else.


Cheers,
Franco