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    Ubuntu Server 16.04 not getting dhcpv6 leases

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      bimmerdriver
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      I'm setting up a ubuntu server running 16.04. I'm planning to use it for openvpn. It has two NICs, each with a /24 ipv4 and /64 ipv6. It's getting dhcp4 leases, but not dhcp6 leases. I'm pretty sure this isn't a pfsense problem, but I figured I'd try here before opening an account on the ubuntu forum so I can ask there.

      I'm running pfsense 2.4 with two LAN interfaces, both with ipv4 and ipv6. A windows 10 client gets ipv4 and ipv6 leases on both interfaces so I don't think there are any issues with pfsense.

      You can see below that it's getting SLAAC addresses. I can ping the addresses on eth0 and eth1 as well as external addresses, so I'm thinking this is a dhclient configuration issue. I'm new to *nix network administration so not sure where to look.

      Here is the output from ip address:

      
      1: lo: <loopback,up,lower_up>mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
          link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
          inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
          inet6 ::1/128 scope host
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
      2: eth0: <broadcast,multicast,up,lower_up>mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
          link/ether 00:15:5d:5c:e2:22 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
          inet 192.168.1.112/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
          inet6 2001:569:xxxx:b600:215:5dff:fe5c:e222/64 scope global mngtmpaddr dynamic
             valid_lft 86389sec preferred_lft 14389sec
          inet6 fe80::215:5dff:fe5c:e222/64 scope link
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
      3: eth1: <broadcast,multicast,up,lower_up>mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
          link/ether 00:15:5d:5c:e2:23 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
          inet 10.8.0.102/24 brd 10.8.0.255 scope global eth1
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
          inet6 2001:569:xxxx:b601:215:5dff:fe5c:e223/64 scope global mngtmpaddr dynamic
             valid_lft 86391sec preferred_lft 14391sec
          inet6 fe80::215:5dff:fe5c:e223/64 scope link
             valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever</broadcast,multicast,up,lower_up></broadcast,multicast,up,lower_up></loopback,up,lower_up> 
      

      When I run sudo service networking restart, it hangs. If I ^C and run it again, it works.

      Here is the output from sudo service networking status:

      
      ● networking.service - Raise network interfaces
         Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/networking.service; enabled; vendor prese
        Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/networking.service.d
                 └─50-insserv.conf-$network.conf
         Active: active (exited) since Sat 2016-11-05 14:41:33 PDT; 24min ago
           Docs: man:interfaces(5)
        Process: 36861 ExecStop=/sbin/ifdown -a --read-environment (code=exited, statu
        Process: 37266 ExecStart=/sbin/ifup -a --read-environment (code=exited, status
        Process: 37259 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c [ "$CONFIGURE_INTERFACES" != "no" ] &&
       Main PID: 37266 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
          Tasks: 0
         Memory: 0B
            CPU: 0
         CGroup: /system.slice/networking.service
      
      Nov 05 14:41:33 ubuntu-openvpn systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces...
      Nov 05 14:41:33 ubuntu-openvpn systemd[1]: Started Raise network interfaces.
      
      

      Here is /etc/network/interfaces:

      administrator@ubuntu-openvpn:~$ more /etc/network/interfaces
      # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
      # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
      
      source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
      
      # The loopback network interface
      auto lo
      iface lo inet loopback
      iface lo inet6 loopback
      
      # The primary network interface
      auto eth0
      iface eth0 inet dhcp
      iface etho inet6 dhcp
      #pre-up modprobe ipv6
      
      auto eth1
      iface eth1 inet dhcp
      iface eth1 inet6 dhcp
      #pre-up modprobe ipv6
      administrator@ubuntu-openvpn:~$
      
      

      I tried uncommenting the modprobe statements but that made no difference.

      Here is /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:

      
      # Configuration file for /sbin/dhclient.
      #
      # This is a sample configuration file for dhclient. See dhclient.conf's
      #       man page for more information about the syntax of this file
      #       and a more comprehensive list of the parameters understood by
      #       dhclient.
      #
      # Normally, if the DHCP server provides reasonable information and does
      #       not leave anything out (like the domain name, for example), then
      #       few changes must be made to this file, if any.
      #
      
      option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;
      
      send host-name = gethostname();
      request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
              domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
              dhcp6.name-servers, dhcp6.domain-search, dhcp6.fqdn, dhcp6.sntp-servers,
              netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
              rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;
      
      #send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;
      #send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
      #supersede domain-name "fugue.com home.vix.com";
      #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
      #require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
      timeout 300;
      #retry 60;
      #reboot 10;
      #select-timeout 5;
      #initial-interval 2;
      #script "/sbin/dhclient-script";
      #media "-link0 -link1 -link2", "link0 link1";
      #reject 192.33.137.209;
      
      #alias {
      #  interface "eth0";
      #  fixed-address 192.5.5.213;
      #  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.255;
      #}
      
      #lease {
      #  interface "eth0";
      #  fixed-address 192.33.137.200;
      #  medium "link0 link1";
      #  option host-name "andare.swiftmedia.com";
      #  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
      #  option broadcast-address 192.33.137.255;
      #  option routers 192.33.137.250;
      #  option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
      #  renew 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
      #  rebind 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
      #  expire 2 2000/1/12 00:00:01;
      #}
      
      

      Is this statement supposed to be commented out? Where does the value come from?

      #send dhcp-client-identifier 1:0:a0:24:ab:fb:9c;

      Thanks in advance.

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