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grin
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Beware IPv6 ND RA hop limit

Mon Sep 22, 2014 5:30 pm

This has ben dolved but maybe someone googles for it: after connection ipv6 hop_limit is zero (hop_limit=0), which results non-working ipv6 connection. (In linux it's
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/wlan0/hop_limit
for example.)

When I keep IPv6 ND hop limit on default (like in winbox) it seems to use '0' as hop limit value.

I haven't checked RFCs whether that's good or bad (probably it's standards compliant value meaning "undefined") but when a machine is using NetworkManager (which is default for newer Debian installs for example) it blindly fills hop limit from RA into network interface, and hop_limit=0 results ipv6 disconnectivity.

Set it to safe 64 or so instead of the default and it'll work just fine.
/ipv6 nd set [ find default=yes ] hop-limit=64

This may be a NM bug or not but definitely bites hard (no ipv6 connections work) and hard to figure out.

Hope this helps.
 
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Re: Beware IPv6 ND RA hop limit

Thu Dec 25, 2014 8:10 pm

Thank you for post!
Great and simple solution witch resolve my "hop-limit problem"

it works for NetworkManager 0.9.10.0 ipv6 connections (ethernet and wlan)

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