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Date:      Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:58:54 -0500
From:      Jason Hellenthal <jhell@DataIX.net>
To:        "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
Subject:   Re: IPv6 not responding on some aliases (recent 8-stable)
Message-ID:  <20111230145854.GA22414@DataIX.net>
In-Reply-To: <AEB320C2-0345-436E-91B3-CBA760FEF37A@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:17:09AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 22. Dec 2011, at 20:39 , Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> 
> >>> Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
> >>> I initially thought it's a transport layer issue, since previously (before
> >>> I changed configuration) 30%-50% SSH connection attempts succeeded
> >>> (but prefix was wrong on the "primary" IPv6 address :1000).
> >>> Now I get no packets on receiving side at all for those "broken" IPv6 addresses.
> >> 
> >> Talk to ywhomever is providing in front of you to
> >> 1) either relax nd6 table limits or
> >> 2) to route a /64 to your host to only have 1 entry in the neighbour table.
> >> 
> >> That's most likely the problem given my crystal ball and experience.
> > 
> > Thank you for insightful analysis! 
> > Seems like this provider has some significant IPv6 takeup, which is
> > good news - sorry for hassle, but problems started after upgrade. 
> > 
> > I'll talk to my upstream then, thanks!
> 
> Please let us know of the results, especially if my crystal ball was wrong.
> 

I have seen this behavior before when one of the addresses on an interface is in a DMZ while the others are not. But this was with IPv4. I would assume IPv6 would have acted the same way but left it untested as it was not critical. Take this as informational only and double check your switches, firewalls, etc...

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