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Date:      Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:58:28 -0500
From:      Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
To:        pepe <plaine@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 aliases on FreeBSD 10
Message-ID:  <54725884.5060006@radel.com>
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On 11/23/14, 5:14 AM, pepe wrote:
>   I also tried adding
> aliases with /128 instead of /64, but it changed nothing.
> With /128 it worked just the same way.
As one of the people mentioning /128s, I'd like to retract that=20
suggestion; I've been reading the ipv6 related documentation given that=20
I'm bringing up my first 10.1 box with ipv6.....and things have changed=20
a bit since 8.4.
>
> Current rc.conf is:
> ipv6_activate_all_interfaces=3D"YES"
> #ipv6_defaultrouter=3D"2001:14b8:1801::1"
> ipv6_defaultrouter=3D"fe80::1%em0"
> ifconfig_em0_ipv6=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801::c001 prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_em0_alias59=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801::2 prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_em0_alias60=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801::c002 prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_em0_alias61=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801::3 prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_em0_alias62=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801:1:: prefixlen 64"
> ifconfig_em0_alias63=3D"inet6 2001:14b8:1801:1::1 prefixlen 64"
>
Just making sure that you realize that if the ISP's equipment is=20
addressed 2001:14b8:1801::1/64, it wouldn't necessarily do good things=20
with your address 2001:14b8:1801:1::/64 unless it had a route to that=20
network.  But that's an aside and doesn't appear to be the root issue=20
you're dealing with.

>
> I'm starting to think it's problem on ISP side and not ours. But just t=
o
> sure - anyone have any ideas what more to try?
>
>
I read through this thread, and as far as I can tell, you've told us=20
almost nothing useful about the topology of your network.  Where does=20
the cable from em0 go?  Directly into the ISP's equipment?  If so, what=20
kind of equipment are we talking about?  What type of media?    I admit=20
complete ignorance of the industry norms specific to Finland, but around =

these parts it makes a world of difference whether you're talking=20
directly to a cable carrier's "modem" or a point-to-point circuit into a =

high-end router.

What I would do, given what little I know about your topology:

1)  Run "ndp -an" on your machine.   All the addresses you expect to=20
work should show up as permanent entries in this table.

2)  You're not doing any firewalling are you?

3)  If you don't run em0 into a switch, insert one (preferably one that=20
does L3 and port mirroring, if you just happen to have access to one=20
like that) between the server and your ISP.

4)  Attach another ipv6 speaking machine  to the switch.   Can it ping=20
all the addresses?   Does its ndp table show the proper mac address for=20
all the addresses?

5)  Optional:  mirror all the traffic on the switch port attached to the =

ISP the test machine you added and using tcpdump or wireshark or=20
what-have-you look at the traffic between the ISP and your server.

If the test machine in #4 reaches all the server addresses just fine=20
even though the ISP doesn't, particularly if #5 shows the ISP never=20
sending the traffic that should be going to the "non-functional"=20
addresses, my leading suspicion would be that that the ISP's equipment=20
has very, very limited capacity for a L2 address table, quite possibly=20
as a matter of deliberate configuration, and after it learns about N=20
neighbors, where N is a very small number, it simply ignores any=20
additional addresses.  Other than getting your ISP to do something about =

that, the only fix I can think of is to put a router (which is where a=20
L3 switch would be handy) between your ISP and your server.  Then, in=20
theory, your ISP's equipment should have to deal with the only addresses =

on the outside of your router in L2 and everything else would be L3=20
routing.   My big concern about that, however, is that the default=20
address they've given you is actually in your /48, so it's unclear to me =

what the heck they're doing with the routing.  So you probably have to=20
talk to them in any case about what the outside interface of your router =

should be addressed as.

--Jon Radel
jon@radel.com






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