Browsing over IPv6

George Mitchell george at m5p.com
Wed Jul 11 02:07:29 UTC 2012


On 07/10/12 21:53, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 07/02/12 16:29, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 07/02/2012 04:12, George Mitchell wrote:
>>
>>> I've been using IPv6 for quite a few years without problems and I've
>>> had no difficulty browsing
>>
>> Many more sites are actually putting, or have put, IPv6 into production
>> since the latest world IPv6 day last month. Some growing pains are
>> inevitable.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>
> This problem may be here in FreeBSD.  Here's my setup:
>
> Me <--ethernet, MTU1500, native IPv6--> mattapan <-|
>                                                     |
> World <-- v6 in v4 tunnel, gif0, MTU1280-----------|
>
> (mattapan is my FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE router, "Me" is running 9.0-STABLE.)
> If I run "route change -inet6 :: -mtu 1280" on "Me," everything starts
> working again.  Should this be necessary?                    -- George

It turns out I can change /etc/rc.conf from:
ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:418:3fd::fd"
to:
ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:418:3fd::fd -mtu 1280"
and "fix" the problem.                                        -- George


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