is this set in the router advertisement? doesn't sound like it's going to work

that's what the VPS provider says to do, but it may be shorthand for something else

I can see a link-local IP if I ping link-local broadcast. I've never really seen it use *anything* beyond a link-local IP so far

::1 is the locahost address so you would send to lo

...exciting, why didn't I remember that

you could try to manual set the default gateway to the link-local address from which the router advertisements are send

I have once, seemingly to no avail...

I'll try it again I suppose, moment

don't forget to include the %interfacename for the route

This is what happens in tcpdump if I restart rtsold

ping6 on anything just gives "ping6: UDP connect: No route to host"

about your config, have you actually "accept rtadv" in rc.conf or "accept_rtadv" and it was a paste error?

(I did add the interface name)

accept_rtadv

just checked

I guess I can scrub out the identifying stuff and just paste my whole rc.conf, if you like

sorry I don't have time anymore, need to go to sleep

ok, that's fine

maybe it can be useful to someone else

linkedin.com/posts/freebsd-just-rem…e-of-share-7483715495494488064-2V3c fucking linux wankers

dont get me wrong I support its foss movement, but their linux way of looking at the world has just flung mud accidentally at FreeBSD

I am sure people here know that the issue with GPL is not because FreeBSD want to appease big corporations and feed the latest big corpa tech solution, its down to the fact GPL has "firendly fire" so many open source projects get tramped in the GPL movement, not just that, but the GPL is legally ambiguous and difficult to enforce (800 lines of FSF ramble)

doesn't seem like SLAAC is working at all

To be honest I dont blame its foss, or most the Linux users spreading this narrative. I blame the FSF. The FSF has campaigned for decades how the GPL protects consumers, and the only people who would hate the GPL are evil corporations or people who want to violate user freedom. The idea that GPL == freedom has been permanently engraved into many FOSS developers brains, and the idea of freedom

without GPL is just incomprehendable to many Linux users.

Sorry for the rant, it makes me so mad when people without knowing the history act like GPL eradication was a matter of appeasing companies.

mewt: show me your rc.conf?

has a couple things anonymized

but that's it

tcpdump output, also anonymized bpa.st/Z3OQ

that's from restarting netif service

I only have a link-local IP still

Also, no one *wants* to challenge/enforce the GPL because, whether it gets enforced or not will be an absolute *sea change* event

Kinda like how Google/Oracle API situation happened -- once courts ruled API implementation absolutely _does not count_ as infringement, bam, it's "settled law"

fucking c*nt

I swear if I don't close linkedin right now I will make myself unemployable for the rest of my life!

And we wonder why people dont adopt BSD when you have senior sysadmins spreading the narrative that FreeBSD is a "corporate slave OS"

that does seem extremely...sensationalized

it protects the time they invested in learning linuxisms

and also preempts having to learn anything new

mewt: whats with dhcpc6?

its one or the other...

one or the other, huh?

well technically not

sorry ignore that

im half asleep you can use dhcpv6 as well

also why the c?

is that a typo?

anyways for SLAAC you dont use DHCPv6 at all

mewt: can you verify that you have SLAAC support from the router

the router must broadcast router advertisements

The tcpdump log shows a router advertisement, I guess I need to check the content of that?

one sec

hmmm

the tcpdump seems fine

whats your ifconfig output?

[let me quickly anonymize and paste that...]

wavefunction: ugh copyright is a pain in the arse

is this helpful?

if that looks ok, maybe I'll poke the provider

mewt: wait is this a server?

yeah, it's a VPS

if so most hosting providers I know of use DHCPv6-PD

you sure they support SLAAC?

SLAAC is often used on client networks, not server networks (although I dont see any reason it cant be used for servers too)

let me double check

some others dont even use any sort of automatic IPv4/IPv6 config and instead use cloud-init to inject static allocations

but yeah I dont see anything wrong here, unless freebsd is bugged

rtsold will send solicitation, and afaik it also listens for adv

and the ifconfig for the interface looks fine

if you want to see my IPv6 setup (working) its as simple as this:

yeah, they don't have much documentation on this, honestly. Would be happy to see yours

(note lagg'ing wifi isn't supported, and causes issues, but thats how you do SLAAC)

this is client side not server

mk

mewt: contact them, I would assume its DHCPv6-PD or its static allocated

nope, another OS's guide for the VPS provider says SLAAC with no privacy addressing

err

VPS provider's guide for a nother OS

another*

mewt: not sure then, I just got back from a meetup so I am too tired to help out

hopefully someone whos got more energy can help out

I did find something interesting

when I manually dump the router advertisement, and then configure that address in place of accept_rtadv

somehow, that address gets assigned to lo0

at least according to netstat

linkedin has rate limited my posts, probably for the best, I kinda got a little heated and decided to reply to every post which discredited the achievement of FreeBSD becoming GPL-free

is it going to change peoples opinions? no. Is it going to make me seem like a arsehole? yes. Why did I do it? Idk... I love BSD and people lying about it angered me. Did I waste my time and labour? definitely!

first mistake was having a linkedin

bsdrobert: need work :(

money doesn't grow on trees

but making enemies with people is a bad way to find work too xDDDDDDD