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      irvingpop
      last edited by

      Using the latest Snapshot:  2.1-DEVELOPMENT (i386) built on Fri Apr 13 00:07:05 EDT 2012

      I can ping the IPv6 Gateway,  but nothing beyond it.

      
      [2.1-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw.popovetsky.com]/root(1): ping6 2002:c058:6301::1
      PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2002:1815:7e8a:: --> 2002:c058:6301::1
      16 bytes from 2002:c058:6301::1, icmp_seq=0 hlim=64 time=28.143 ms
      16 bytes from 2002:c058:6301::1, icmp_seq=1 hlim=64 time=29.553 ms
      16 bytes from 2002:c058:6301::1, icmp_seq=2 hlim=64 time=29.808 ms
      16 bytes from 2002:c058:6301::1, icmp_seq=3 hlim=64 time=29.654 ms
      16 bytes from 2002:c058:6301::1, icmp_seq=4 hlim=64 time=30.774 ms
      ^C
      --- 2002:c058:6301::1 ping6 statistics ---
      5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
      round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 28.143/29.586/30.774/0.842 ms
      
      [2.1-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw.popovetsky.com]/root(2): ping6 ipv6.google.com
      ping6: UDP connect: No route to host
      
      

      Netstat shows no IPv6 default gateway

      Internet6:
      Destination                       Gateway                       Flags      Netif Expire
      ::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
      2002::/16                         link#10                       U          stf0
      2002:1815:7e8a::                  link#10                       UHS         lo0 =>
      2002:1815:7e8a::/64               link#1                        U           vr0
      2002:1815:7e8a::1                 link#1                        UHS         lo0
      fe80::%vr0/64                     link#1                        U           vr0
      fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7288%vr0      link#1                        UHS         lo0
      fe80::%vr1/64                     link#2                        U           vr1
      fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7289%vr1      link#2                        UHS         lo0
      fe80::%vr2/64                     link#3                        U           vr2
      fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:728a%vr2      link#3                        UHS         lo0
      fe80::%lo0/64                     link#7                        U           lo0
      fe80::1%lo0                       link#7                        UHS         lo0
      fe80::%ovpns1/64                  link#12                       U        ovpns1
      fe80::2bd:f9ff:fe0a:1%ovpns1      link#12                       UHS         lo0
      ff01::%vr0/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7288%vr0  U           vr0
      ff01::%vr1/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7289%vr1  U           vr1
      ff01::%vr2/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:728a%vr2  U           vr2
      ff01::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
      ff01::%ovpns1/32                  fe80::2bd:f9ff:fe0a:1%ovpns1  U        ovpns1
      ff02::%vr0/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7288%vr0  U           vr0
      ff02::%vr1/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:7289%vr1  U           vr1
      ff02::%vr2/32                     fe80::20d:b9ff:fe24:728a%vr2  U           vr2
      ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
      ff02::%ovpns1/32                  fe80::2bd:f9ff:fe0a:1%ovpns1  U        ovpns1
      
      

      Manually adding inet6 default gateway fixes it

      
      [2.1-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw.popovetsky.com]/root(9): route add -inet6 default 2002:c058:6301::1
      add net default: gateway 2002:c058:6301::1
      [2.1-DEVELOPMENT][root@fw.popovetsky.com]/root(10): ping6 ipv6.google.com
      PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2002:1815:7e8a:: --> 2001:4860:8005::93
      16 bytes from 2001:4860:8005::93, icmp_seq=0 hlim=56 time=39.839 ms
      16 bytes from 2001:4860:8005::93, icmp_seq=1 hlim=56 time=38.709 ms
      16 bytes from 2001:4860:8005::93, icmp_seq=2 hlim=56 time=38.661 ms
      16 bytes from 2001:4860:8005::93, icmp_seq=3 hlim=56 time=39.027 ms
      16 bytes from 2001:4860:8005::93, icmp_seq=4 hlim=56 time=38.721 ms
      ^C
      --- ipv6.l.google.com ping6 statistics ---
      5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
      round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 38.661/38.991/39.839/0.443 ms
      
      
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        mrhanman
        last edited by

        I can corroborate irvingpop's results with the Apr 13th snapshot.

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          databeestje
          last edited by

          I have not yet found the time to debug this yet, it should be adding a new default route. But it isn't

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            databeestje
            last edited by

            Can not replicate on a static IPv4 wan, need to try dhcp later. It does add the static route for me, and the gateways also still exist.

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              mrhanman
              last edited by

              OK, I've got a strange new problem.  I updated to today's snaphot, added the ipv6 gateway as default ipv6 route manually, and now my computers can ONLY browse by ipv6 - ipv4 isn't working at all.  I can ping either ipv6 or ipv4 addresses from pfSense.  It looks like the DHCP server on pfSense may not be handing out the default gateway for ipv4 networks.  Once I added the ipv4 default route manually on my windows box, ipv4 worked fine.  ::)

              EDIT:  Looks like I can't connect to the webConfigurator, now.  Not sure what's up with that, unless it's not listening on ipv4.

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                databeestje
                last edited by

                I just updated 2 installs with the latest snapshot and i'm not seeing anything like your issues.

                May I suggest that your install is hosed? I can't even resemble anything close to your issues.

                I did just commit a change that would disable the IPv4 gateway in the DHCP4 server but that is a very specific change that would only bite you if you had no ipv4 gateways at all. Dynamic or otherwise.

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                  databeestje
                  last edited by

                  I managed to get a install online on a public IP with dhcp and I managed to replicate your issue. Seems like a timing issue.

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                    mrhanman
                    last edited by

                    Easily fixed?

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                      databeestje
                      last edited by

                      I think it is now, I changed the default gateway address, as well as configuring the interface before trying to configure routing is generally a good idea.

                      fixed rc.newwanip and function interface_6to4_configure();

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                        mrhanman
                        last edited by

                        @databeestje:

                        configuring the interface before trying to configure routing is generally a good idea.

                        ;)

                        So, just a gitsync, and off to the races?

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                          databeestje
                          last edited by

                          yep, no binary changes required

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                            mrhanman
                            last edited by

                            OK, I just did a gitsync and nothing seems to have changed.  I then installed the latest snapshot, which was a few hours newer and did another gitsync.  I still have no ipv4 gateway on my PC, and no default ipv6 route on pfSense.

                            Just to be clear, to do a gitsync, you SSH into the box, hit 12 for pfSense Developer Shell, type 'playback gitsync git://github.com/bsdperimeter/pfsense.git', and hit enter a couple times, right?  I also rebooted a few times, just for fun - both the PC and pfSense.  Did I miss something?

                            EDIT: Also, there is only the ipv6 gateway listed under Status -> Gateways.  The ipv4 gateway is missing.

                            EDIT: I tried adding an ipv4 LAN gateway in the GUI, and a strange thing happened.  The original ipv4 LAN gateway reappeared, but I couldn't set it as default, and I couldn't get the new LAN gateway to work.  I just delelted all the ipv6 settings on the interfaces, and everything is back to normal - minus ipv6 support, of course.  Now, I'm going to try to add the settings back.  Maybe it'll work this time around.

                            EDIT: I'm about to reset to defaults.  Nothing else has worked.

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                              databeestje
                              last edited by

                              wow, yeah, that sounds horrific, i'm really not sure what has gone wrong but it appears it's thoroughly confused.

                              The VM I setup for testing has a WAN_DHCP gateway for IPv4 and a WAN_6to4 gateway for ipv6.

                              Both of those gateways are automatically added by the system during setup. I did start with a clean install of 2.1 which may be the difference.

                              I had no time to setup a test vm behind it to verify I actually got a v4 gateway on the LAN, but i do see a "routers" line in /var/dhcpd/etc/dhcpd.conf do you have such a line in your dhcpd.conf?

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                                irvingpop
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                                All is working now for me.  Both v4 and v6 gateways and routes came up fine at boot.  Thanks again!

                                Using this snapshot: built on Tue Apr 17 06:39:44 EDT 2012

                                One question.  I'm using IPv6 Prefix ID "none".  Is that the correct configuration or is it better to assign a prefix ID?

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                                  databeestje
                                  last edited by

                                  assign something other then "none" and it will get assigned to the LAN interface.

                                  A 6to4 wan has 65535 choices. 0000 to ffff.

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                                    irvingpop
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                                    Strange, after changing the Prefix ID to 1 (chosen arbitrarily) from none,  pfSense could no longer ping the IPv6 gateway (WAN_6TO4)  – even after reboot.  However, everything else worked  (ex.  ping6 ipv6.google.com from both pfsense and machines on LAN).

                                    Changing back to none (and reboot) and the WAN_6TO4 gateway is pingable from pfsense again.

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                                      mrhanman
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                                      I still haven't gotten around to starting over.  :-[  Would a "Reset to factory defaults" be just as good, or will that leave something behind?

                                      EDIT:  Went ahead and did it and - woohoo! - 6to4 is now working as it should.  Must have been all the various versions I've gone through over the last year that messed it up.  I still get that error on line 42 at startup, though.

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                                        databeestje
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                                        I think there might be a corrupt PHP file in /usr/local/pkg from a defunct package.

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                                          mrhanman
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                                          Is there anyway I can check for what's causing it and remove it?  If I'm not mistaken, it did this on the first boot, before I had added any packages.

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                                            databeestje
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                                            ls -l /usr/local/pkg see if there is a file there that you don't recognize.

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