Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 6:35 PM Victor Sudakov <v...@sibptus.ru> wrote: > > > > Why could it be that a FreeBSD 12.2 host does not reply to ICMPv6 > > > Neighbor Solicitations from the router? > > > > Any ideas please? > > > > > Are you permitting the required udp and icmp? These could be tighter, but > > ################################################################################ > > # dhcp / bootp > > $FW add 00128 allow udp from any 67,68,546,547 to any 67,68,546,547
There is no firewall on the FreeBSD host in question. There is no need,
the host is on the LAN of a Mikrotik router.
>
> The method I have found to be reliable is to use dhcp6c, which requires the
> pkg 'dhcp6'
Why? On the host in question, I have a statically configured global IPv6
address, and auto_linklocal enabled on all interfaces:
$ ifconfig re1
re1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
ether c4:12:f5:33:c9:7c
inet 192.168.170.5/24 broadcast 192.168.170.255
inet6 fe80::c612:f5ff:fe33:c97c%re1/64 scopeid 0x2
inet6 2001:470:ecba:3::5/64
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
status: active
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
$
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