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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2018 01:11:08 +0200
From:      "Frank de Bot (lists)" <lists@searchy.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Removing IPv6 address causes all IPv6 traffic to stop working
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The routes are not affected. the strangest thing I find that the host
and jails are accessible from outside, and it can reach outside hosts
via v6, but everything that's  staying on the server fails.

Alan Somers wrote:
> How did you assign the jails' IPv6 addresses in the first place?  The usual
> way is to assign them as /128 aliases, in which case the command to remove
> them would include a "/128", not "/48".  I think when you're deleting a
> "/48" you're also removing some routes that the jail host is using.
> -Alan
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 4:30 PM, Frank de Bot (lists) <lists@searchy.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On a older server running FreeBSD 10.2 i have a number of jails. For
>> migration to FreeBSD I'm planning to shutdown the jail, move the data to
>> the new server and spin up the jail there. IP addresses are alse moved.
>>
>> When I remove an IPv6 address with the following command 'ifconfig em0
>> inet6 v6address/48 delete', all IPv6 traffic on the server stops
>> working. I can reach IPv6 from outside to the server and from the server
>> to outside, but everything on the server (jail to jail for example)
>> immediatly stops working. IPv4 works normally
>> Unfortunately it's not feasible to bing-bang migrate everything,
>> ignoring ipv6 is not possible because a lot of the jails interact with
>> each other with ipv6 (some even exclusivly)
>>
>> What can cause this?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank de Bot
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