I will not be of help to you, Rob, but I see something missing (or I’m blind 
this morning - it’s winter here in the states so that’s possible): What 
hardware platform are you running on?
It might not change anything but I did notice it was missing.



> On Feb 20, 2015, at 9:35 AM, Rob Hillis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Ever since I upgraded from pfSense 2.1.5 to 2.2, I've had problems with IPv6 
> remaining available to all workstations.
> 
> My ISP is Internode in Australia, who offers dual stack IPv6 with a 56 bit 
> subnet allocated via DHCPv6 over IPv4.  I have my WAN connection set up as 
> follows:-
> 
> IPv6 Configuration Type: DHCP6
> Use IPv4 connectivity as parent interface: Checked
> Request only a IPv6 prefix: Checked
> DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation size: Checked
> Send IPv6 prefix hint: Unchecked
> 
> The LAN interface is statically set with an IPv6 address and DHCPv6/RA is set 
> up as follows:-
> 
> DHCPv6 server disabled
> Router Advertisements: Unmanaged (have also tried Assisted, with a DHCPv6 
> server running from my domain controller with the same results)
> Router Priority: High
> RA Subnet(s): none listed
> DNS servers: My domain controller's IPv6 address is listed.
> 
> The dashboard shows the following interface information:-
> 
> WAN: up
> 59.167.122.229
> fe80::20d:b9ff:fe14:723a
> 
> LAN: up
> 100baseTX <full-duplex>
> 10.100.18.254
> 2001:44b8:41d6:ce00::1
> 
> When the router first comes up, I have full IPv6 connectivity without an 
> issue.  However, after a couple of hours, IPv6 becomes unavailable from my 
> Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server box - ping6s go without replies.  My Windows desktop 
> sometimes continues to resolve IPv6 addresses (but can't ping them), however 
> it often reverts to IPv4, though a ping -6 usually works fine.  My domain 
> controller (Server 2012 Foundation) happily serves up AAAA records, though 
> often can't ping them.  ipv6-test.com shows IPv4 connectivity is fine, but 
> IPv6 is "not supported".  DNS6 + IP4 shows up as reachable, and as I said, my 
> Windows server happily returns AAAA records if they're found.  pfSense 
> happily continues to respond on IPv6 internally, and all communication within 
> my LAN works fine over IPv6.  Servers (of which there are several) have 
> statically configured IPv6 addresses, whereas my desktop configures itself 
> via SLAAC.
> 
> A reboot of the router solves the issue, but only for a couple of hours.  The 
> log files aren't much help - routing.log shows a single entry advising that 
> radvd 1.9.1 started.  dhcpd.log shows the following:-
> 
> Feb 20 18:54:29 router dhcp6c[15483]: failed to open 
> /usr/local/etc/dhcp6cctlkey: No such file or directory
> Feb 20 18:54:29 router dhcp6c[15483]: failed initialize control message 
> authentication
> Feb 20 18:54:29 router dhcp6c[15483]: skip opening control port
> Feb 20 21:02:45 router dhcp6c[15623]: all information to be updated was 
> canceled
> 
> The router was restarted at 18:54.  Whilst I can't say for sure that IPv6 
> stopped functioning at 21:02, this seems to be about the interval that IPv6 
> works.  system log shows the system booting up, but nothing relevant 
> afterwards.  Likewise, dmesg.boot shows boot up info, but nothing else.
> 
> Reverting to pfSense 2.1.5 would be somewhat of a pain since I can't find the 
> backup of my configuration prior to upgrading.  I'm fairly sure I did back 
> up, but it's possible that I neglected to do so. The loss of IPv6 isn't a 
> killer, it's just a little inconvenient.
> 
> Can anyone give me some hints as to where this issue may lie?  If I've missed 
> any relevant information, please let me know.  This is driving me slightly 
> nuts.
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