When running a virtual machine as an IPv6 gateway towards other (virtual) machines, and using openrc to set up the bridge and routing towards those other machines, the route is actually unavailable until manually deleted and readded. This bug first occurs when booting the machine, and can be re-triggered by issuing /etc/init.d/net.br0 restart Note that no machines actually "behind" the gw machine have to be contacted to see the effect of this bug, but have been to verify they are all affected. Note that having it set up as a route with a gateway is crucial to the bug, other bridges without a gateway on them work just fine. IPv4 is not affected and works the whole time, using NAT on the gateway VM. below fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0 is the link-local address of the gateway's eth0, attached to br0, ${v6net}::2 is the same eth0's public IP address. In place of ${v6net}::2 another host from the same subnet, attached to the gateway's eth1 via br1 was tested as well with identical results, i.e. it works only after re-adding the route. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/net.br0 restart 2. ping6 -c3 fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0 -I br0 3. ping6 -c3 ${v6net}::2 (or a client behind the gateway) 4. ip -6 route del ${v6net}::/64 via fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0 dev br0 5. ip -6 route add ${v6net}::/64 via fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0 dev br0 6. ping6 -c3 ${v6net}::2 (or a client behind the gateway) Actual Results: result 2) PING fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0(fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0) from fe80::9ce5:9ff:feca:b890 br0: 56 data bytes 64 bytes from fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.217 ms 64 bytes from fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.214 ms 64 bytes from fe80::c8fe:caff:feba:0: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.235 ms result 3) PING ${v6net}::2(${v6net}::2) 56 data bytes ping: sendmsg: Network is down ping: sendmsg: Network is down ping: sendmsg: Network is down result 6) PING ${v6net}::2(${v6net}::2) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.217 ms 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.204 ms 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.325 ms Expected Results: result 2) PING ${v6net}::2(${v6net}::2) 56 data bytes 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.217 ms 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.204 ms 64 bytes from ${v6net}::2: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.325 ms as seen on the command line when restarting net.br0: stopped services, in stopping order: sshd, radvd, nfsmount, libvirtd, dhcpd, net.br0 started services, in starting order (| denotes interleaving messages, rc_parallel=off!): net.br0, ntp-client, radvd|sshd, dhcpd, nfsmount|libvirtd ----- # 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Created attachment 317460 [details] relevant /etc/conf.d/net settings The attached /etc/conf.d/net is reduced to the relevant definitions, and changed to a readable format.
Created attachment 317462 [details] rc.log of a system startup
Can you please include the output of 'ip -6 route' at step #3, before you modify it?
Unfortunately I will not have time to do so in the next two weeks. I can provide the requested information when I am less busy, would you prefer it to be on the openrc I currently use, or a more recent version (if there is any)?
if you can provide it against netifrc-9999, or at least netifrc-0.1, that would be prefered. I'm on vacation for the next week anyway, so I'll look for your response in 2 weeks.
