Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 01:45:44 +1000 From: Scott <freebsd-lists-5@thismonkey.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Specifying IPv6 off-link for a subnet Message-ID: <YOMpKMgvV2zs4ZVj@thismonkey.com>
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Hi all,
I have a few FreeBSD hosts with IPv6 and am struggling to get FreeBSD to
respect an RA with the on-link flag un-set.
I have manually configured IPv6 on the interfaces:
ifconfig_vmx0_ipv6="inet6 xx::yy prefer_source accept_rtadv -autoconf no_radr"
The prefix appears in the prefix list as:
# ndp -p
xx::/64 if=vmx0
flags=LO vltime=infinity, pltime=infinity, expire=Never, ref=1
No advertising router
Note how the L flag is set. ifconfig does not seem to allow for specifying
off-link (or no on-link) for a subnet, so I was hoping FreeBSD would rely on
the router RA.
According to rfc5942, 4.1 states (edited):
The assignment of an IPv6 address through manual configuration MUST NOT
implicitly cause a prefix derived from that address to be treated as on-link.
A host considers a prefix to be on-link only through explicit means.
Here's the received RA:
01:26:48.355186 IP6 (class 0xe0, hlim 255, next-header ICMPv6 (58) payload length: 64) fe80::1 > ff02::1: [icmp6 sum ok] ICMP6, router advertisement, length 64
hop limit 64, Flags [none], pref high, router lifetime 1800s, reachable time 0ms, retrans timer 0ms
source link-address option (1), length 8 (1): 00:00:5e:00:02:02
mtu option (5), length 8 (1): 9000
prefix info option (3), length 32 (4): xx::/64, Flags [none], valid
time 3600s, pref. time 60s
Note that there is no L flag set, so the prefix is off-link.
However FreeBSD does not update the prefix list accordingly.
Am I doing something wrong here? Or is FreeBSD not following the rules?
Thanks,
Scott
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