[afnog] Interface configuration - IPv6

Vincent Ngundi vincent at kenic.or.ke
Sat Sep 8 09:46:50 UTC 2007


On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:

> On Saturday 08 September 2007 17:17, Vincent Ngundi wrote:
>
>> no, older versions (5.3).
>
> Firewalls running here too?
>
>>> Do you have a v4 firewall running?
>>
>> yes.
>
> Stop you v4 firewall first and try again.
>
> Not sure about other FreeBSD firewalls, but I experienced
> issues where a v4-only configured IPfw firewall
> automatically enabled filtering the moment it detected a v6
> address upon boot (even when said v6 address was on another
> Ethernet interface IPfw had nothing to do with).

You were right Mark, it was the v4 firewall.

Adding the following rule to /etc/rc.firewall did the trick:

${fwcmd} add allow ipv6-icmp from any to any

Regards,

-Vincent

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