Re: what to check? no IPV6 pings between nodes on the same switch

Hi,

My rc.conf config has:
ifconfig_genet0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"

Can you post the output of "ifconfig" and "ipfw show"?
Can you ping the link-local address of the other hosts?

Regards.
Ronald.

 
Van: Benoit Chesneau <benoitc@enki-multimedia.eu>
Datum: maandag, 15 augustus 2022 08:59
Aan: "freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: what to check? no IPV6 pings between nodes on the same switch
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> I have setup 3 nodes on a fresh Freebsd 13.1-RELEASE-p1. They have the same gateway and IPS are in same /64. All 3 nodes are on the same switch (mikrotik) and same vlan untagged.
> 
> I can ping them from an external machine through the router/gateway but the nodes can't ping each others. When I run `ndp-a` it only return the gateway and the node ipv6 (+ their libks) but not the ips of the other nodes.
> 
> Previously these nodes wee under linux and were able to ping each others.
> 
> What could be the issue? What do I need to check?
> 
> Configuration is pretty straightforward:
>  
> ```
> hostname="node1.domain.tld"
> 
> keymap="fr.macbook.kbd"
> 
> ifconfig_ql0=""
> 
> ifconfig_ql0_ipv6="inet6 <PREFIX>::11/64"
> 
> ipv6_defaultrouter="<PREFIX>::1"
> 
> sshd_enable="YES"
> 
> ntpd_enable="YES"
> 
> # Set dumpdev to "AUTO" to enable crash dumps, "NO" to disable
> 
> dumpdev="AUTO"
> 
> zfs_enable="YES"
> ```
>  
> Others machines are `<PREFIX>::12`, `<PREFIX>::13`Sent from Proton Mail for iOS
>  
> Benoît