Chicken-Egg: Disabled VLAN Interface Impedes Disabling Router Advertisements
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I'm running pfsense 25.11.1 on a Netgate 4200.
I've disabled ipv6 but I forgot to disable router advertisements on one vlan before disabling that vlan interface.
The router advertisements menu won't offer the vlan to disable router advertisements without enabling the interface, but I can't enable the interface without disabling the router advertisement.
This lockout situation seems like a bug. I'll work around it somehow, but it should be fixed if it is indeed a bug.
Ideally, disabling IPv6 seems like it should go through the related settings, such as router advertisements, and disabling them too. Not deleting, but disabling, so this kind of deadlock can't happen.
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I can't enable the interface without disabling the router advertisement
Is that the one where it needs a static IP on the interface?
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@SteveITS said in Chicken-Egg: Disabled VLAN Interface Impedes Disabling Router Advertisements:
I can't enable the interface without disabling the router advertisement
Is that the one where it needs a static IP on the interface?
Sorry, I donāt know anything about this. My situation was some time back I disabled IPv6 because my service on this protocol from starlink was unstable.
Today I was cleaning up loose ends when I encountered this deadlock. I manually edited the config.xml to change the value in the vlan tag to disabled and that fixed it.
But this seems like the ui should let me do this without opening the hood and disconnecting wires in the engine.
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@Mission-Ghost I just meant, I think to enable the interface again it needs a static IP. Iāve run into this, or similar, but a while ago.
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@SteveITS said in Chicken-Egg: Disabled VLAN Interface Impedes Disabling Router Advertisements:
@Mission-Ghost I just meant, I think to enable the interface again it needs a static IP. Iāve run into this, or similar, but a while ago.
Oh, I understand.
Still, why have a GUI if it doesn't do things people need it to do, like this?
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@Mission-Ghost If we're asking the important questions, why use a packet filter to transport Ethernet frames?
