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    Clients get IPv6 addresses, but no working network connection

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      innostus
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      My situation.
      pfSense running on Netgate SG3100 router, connected to fiber.
      pfSense has a IPv6 address. Ping IPv4 and IPv6 from the router to the internet is working.
      My clients in the local network do get a valid IPv6 address, and a IPv4 address. Networking between clients, and to the internet, is working on IPv4, but not on IPv6.
      However, I also have a OpenVPN server on the router. When I connect from an external location, to my router, I have a working IPv6 connection (internet tunneled over OpenVPN)!
      Somewhere, the routing gets wrong in the internal network side of the router.
      My setup used to work correctly. I suspect an upgrade of some kind has caused this issue.
      Help is appreciated.

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      • luckman212L
        luckman212 LAYER 8 @innostus
        last edited by

        @innostus This may seem like a very silly question but: do you have an allow rule on your LAN that passes IPV6 traffic?

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          innostus @luckman212
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          @luckman212 Silly questions don't exist 😉
          f365387a-7891-49b0-b8ca-4f29f3e96541-image.png

          Protocol Source Port Destination Port Gateway Queue Schedule Description Actions
          IPv4+6 * LAN net * * * * none   Default allow LAN to any rule

          Is this what you mean?

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          • JKnottJ
            JKnott @innostus
            last edited by

            @innostus

            Run Packet Capture on the LAN port, filtering on ICMP6, to see if you have Router Advertisements going out.

            PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
            i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
            UniFi AC-Lite access point

            I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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              innostus @JKnott
              last edited by

              @jknott
              During the first seconds I also started a ping6 to google.com.
              Is this enough data? What should I be looking for?

              14:51:11.620463 IP6 2a02:a442:5457::cc41 > 2a00:1450:400e:801::200e: ICMP6, echo request, seq 1, length 64
              14:51:12.650994 IP6 2a02:a442:5457::cc41 > 2a00:1450:400e:801::200e: ICMP6, echo request, seq 2, length 64
              14:51:13.674961 IP6 2a02:a442:5457::cc41 > 2a00:1450:400e:801::200e: ICMP6, echo request, seq 3, length 64
              14:51:14.699007 IP6 2a02:a442:5457::cc41 > 2a00:1450:400e:801::200e: ICMP6, echo request, seq 4, length 64
              14:51:15.722957 IP6 2a02:a442:5457::cc41 > 2a00:1450:400e:801::200e: ICMP6, echo request, seq 5, length 64
              14:51:16.746940 IP6 fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0 > fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2, length 32
              14:51:16.747037 IP6 fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2 > fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2, length 24
              14:51:21.673303 IP6 fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2 > fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0: ICMP6, neighbor solicitation, who has fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0, length 32
              14:51:21.673795 IP6 fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0 > fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2: ICMP6, neighbor advertisement, tgt is fe80::e820:59ff:fee4:c5b0, length 24

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              • JKnottJ
                JKnott @innostus
                last edited by

                @innostus

                Here's what Router Advertisements look like. You'll see they occur every few minutes. They can also occur after being requested.

                eb16aed8-9c31-4d77-b23f-27a1e03866ea-image.png

                These were captured in Wireshark and I used display filters to show only the RAs.

                PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
                i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
                UniFi AC-Lite access point

                I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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                  innostus @JKnott
                  last edited by innostus

                  @jknott

                  99a04cc3-fb1d-4f02-b4c7-cff09faa9eb0-image.png

                  No. Time Source Destination Protocol Length Info
                  6370 183.350531899 fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2 ff02::1 ICMPv6 198 Router Advertisement from 00:08:a2:12:49:f2
                  29679 664.793636676 fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2 ff02::1 ICMPv6 198 Router Advertisement from 00:08:a2:12:49:f2
                  32056 1034.144777006 fe80::208:a2ff:fe12:49f2 ff02::1 ICMPv6 198 Router Advertisement from 00:08:a2:12:49:f2

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