IPV6 capability no go

[chris]

Recently I began renting a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server from ovh.co.uk who happen to support IPV6 and give each dedi they sell a dedicated bunch of IPV6 addresses.
I'm totally new to IPV6 so had to look up how to set-up network to make use of these but I'm having problems pinging anywhere from the server and visa-versa. I'm only setting this up out of interest really but please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong.

My address allocation is 2001:41D0:1:B9b1::/64

Here's a snippet of my /etc/rc.conf

# IPV6
ipv6_enable="YES"
ipv6_network_interface="re0"
ipv6_defaultrouter="fe80::21e:79ff:fe1e:d400"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0="2001:41D0:1:B9b1::1 prefixlen 64"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0_alias0="2001:41D0:1:B9b1::10 prefixlen 64"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0_alias1="2001:41D0:1:B9b1::11 prefixlen 64"
ipv6_ifconfig_re0_alias2="2001:41D0:1:B9b1::12 prefixlen 64"

And relevant sysctl values I'm using;

root# sysctl net.inet6
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0
net.inet6.ip6.redirect: 1
net.inet6.ip6.hlim: 64
net.inet6.ip6.maxfragpackets: 6400
net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv: 1
net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith: 0
net.inet6.ip6.log_interval: 5
net.inet6.ip6.hdrnestlimit: 15
net.inet6.ip6.dad_count: 1
net.inet6.ip6.auto_flowlabel: 1
net.inet6.ip6.defmcasthlim: 1
net.inet6.ip6.gifhlim: 30
net.inet6.ip6.kame_version: FreeBSD
net.inet6.ip6.use_deprecated: 1
net.inet6.ip6.rr_prune: 5
net.inet6.ip6.v6only: 0
net.inet6.ip6.rtexpire: 3600
net.inet6.ip6.rtminexpire: 10
net.inet6.ip6.rtmaxcache: 128
net.inet6.ip6.use_tempaddr: 0
net.inet6.ip6.temppltime: 86400
net.inet6.ip6.tempvltime: 604800
net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal: 1
net.inet6.ip6.prefer_tempaddr: 0
net.inet6.ip6.use_defaultzone: 0
net.inet6.ip6.maxfrags: 6400
net.inet6.ip6.mcast_pmtu: 0
net.inet6.icmp6.rediraccept: 1
net.inet6.icmp6.redirtimeout: 600
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_prune: 1
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_delay: 5
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_umaxtries: 3
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_mmaxtries: 3
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_useloopback: 1
net.inet6.icmp6.nodeinfo: 3
net.inet6.icmp6.errppslimit: 100
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxnudhint: 0
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_debug: 0
net.inet6.icmp6.nd6_maxqueuelen: 1

ifconfig snippet:

re0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 00:1c:c0:51:18:3f
        inet6 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::1 prefixlen 64
        inet6 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::10 prefixlen 64
        inet6 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::11 prefixlen 64
        inet6 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::12 prefixlen 64
        inet6 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::1337 prefixlen 64
        inet6 fe80::21c:c0ff:fe51:183f%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1

I used this link to help me get set up. It can be easily translated, I used google translate;
http://guides.ovh.com/Ipv4Ipv6

Thanks in advance

[J65nko]

I only played with IPv6 on my local OBSD network a few years ago.

Can you ping localhost?

$ ping6 -c4 ::1

Can you ping your local ipv6 address

ping6 -c4 fe80::21c:c0ff:fe51:183f%re0

Then ping your interface 2001:41d0:1:b9b1::1 and the alias IP addresses.

Check your routing tables with netstat -rn. Is the default router fe80::21e:79ff:fe1e:d400 listed in the IPv6 routing table? Can you ping the default router?

BTW You added ipv6_defaultrouter="fe80::21e:79ff:fe1e:d400" to your /etc/rc.conf, but this line is not mentioned in their guide

ipv6_enable="YES"
ipv6_network_interface="rl0"
ipv6_ifconfig_rl0="2001:41D0:1:756::1 prefixlen 64"
ipv6_ifconfig_rl0_alias0="2001:41D0:1:756::12 prefixlen 64

Under Route: Gateway IPv6 they say that the default gateway ipv6 address always ends on 5 times 'FF'.

L' IPv6 du serveur: 2001:41D0:1:46e::/64 devient 2001:41D0:1:4 + 5 fois FF.
Gateway ipv6: 2001:41D0:1:4FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

Or in English (I don't need google translator )

IPv6 of server: 2001:41D0:1:46e::/64 becomes 2001:41D0:1:4 + 5 times FF.
Gateway ipv6: 2001:41D0:1:4FF:FF:FF:FF:FF

This is a public address, while the fe:80* addresses are local.

IPv6 is mainly autoconfiguring and the rtsol command is the IPv6 equivalent of the IPv4 DHCP dhclient, so I wonder why the tell you to do a rtsol and take a note of the default router IPv6 addressand never use it.

If I were you I would contact their technical support and point this out

[chris]

Perfect J65nko. You were right about the default router value, I changed it from

ipv6_defaultrouter="fe80::21e:79ff:fe1e:d400"

to

ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:41d0:1:b9FF:FF:FF:FF:FF"

And after restarting ipv6 networking (/etc/rc.d/network_ipv6 restart) I could suddenly ping6 any remote IPV6 IP.

Thanks,

Chris

[darkmark]

rtsol will automatically set the default router and the prefix for the link. This makes renumbering in ipv6 really really easy. In reality all you need is:

ipv6_enable="YES"

in /etc/rc.conf. That is, unless this box is going to be a router.

Your system should automatically pick up the solicitation and configure the interface. You should only have to set the prefix if the router isn't advertising it.