On FreeBSD 12 (tested and verified on 12.1-RELEASE-p2), after "ifconfig inet6" for a tun/tap interface, there sometimes is a race condition where the "IFDISABLED" flag shows up after a short time frame, under a second, and never clears itself. This disables use of the configured IPv6 address on the interface, breaking IPv6 over tun/tap operation.
This only happens if ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" is not set in /etc/rc.conf - but there might be reasons why this is not so. As a workaround until this can be fixed on the FreeBSD side (or a better workaround is found), sleep(1) after ifconfig, then call "ifconfig $dev inet6 -ifdisable". Yes, this is massively ugly but makes the problem completely go away for my test systems. (The same effect can be achieved with an --up script that does this, but it's even less pretty - see trac ticket) FreeBSD: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248172 v2: reword text, refer to FreeBSD bug with much more details Trac: 1226 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> --- src/openvpn/tun.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/openvpn/tun.c b/src/openvpn/tun.c index e96368ca..bbccc1cc 100644 --- a/src/openvpn/tun.c +++ b/src/openvpn/tun.c @@ -1038,6 +1038,29 @@ do_ifconfig_ipv6(struct tuntap *tt, const char *ifname, int tun_mtu, openvpn_execve_check(&argv, es, S_FATAL, "generic BSD ifconfig inet6 failed"); +#if defined(TARGET_FREEBSD) && __FreeBSD_version >= 1200000 + /* On FreeBSD 12 and up, there is ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" + * in rc.conf, which is not set by default. If it is *not* set, + * "all new interfaces that are not already up" are configured by + * devd + /etc/pccard_ether as "inet6 ifdisabled". + * + * The "is this interface already up?" test is a non-zero time window + * which we manage to hit with our ifconfig often enough to cause + * frequent fails in the openvpn test environment. + * + * Thus: assume that the system might interfere, wait for things to + * settle (it's a very short time window), and remove -ifdisable again. + * + * See: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248172 + */ + sleep(1); + argv_printf(&argv, "%s %s inet6 -ifdisabled", IFCONFIG_PATH, ifname); + argv_msg(M_INFO, &argv); + + openvpn_execve_check(&argv, es, S_FATAL, + "FreeBSD BSD 'ifconfig inet6 -ifdisabled' failed"); +#endif + #if defined(TARGET_OPENBSD) || defined(TARGET_NETBSD) \ || defined(TARGET_DARWIN) /* and, hooray, we explicitly need to add a route... */ -- 2.27.0 _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
