Also, it’s not typical to run a VLAN on the upstream interface to your provider 
so that config is what I’m curious about.

Tom

> On Sep 13, 2025, at 5:52 PM, Keehole <pusat...@keehole.org> wrote:
> 
> Sending a copy of the relevant portions of /etc/rc.conf, the output of 
> “ifconfig”, and “netstat -nra”, and the dhcpcd config file would be helpful 
> to determine next steps.
> 
> Tom
> 
>> On Sep 13, 2025, at 4:49 PM, Chris Ross <cross+free...@distal.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all.  My primary home router is a FreeBSD 14 system, with an outside 
>> connection to Verizon, through a direct connection to the ONT.  (ie, no 
>> Verizon router/bridge involved).  I did a bunch of work last year, running 
>> 14.1, to get IPv6 working with what they provided, and it was all working 
>> alright until I upgraded the system for 14.3 a month or so ago.  I noticed 
>> some problem immediately with dhcpcd’s logging, which I assumed was from 
>> running an older version I built myself, and I switched to the one in ports 
>> which seemed okay (to my eyes, but I fear I may not actually have tested it).
>> 
>> Tl;dr; I am not able to get IPv6 traffic in and out of my house through 
>> Verizon.  I reached out to Roy Marples, who had helped me get this all set 
>> up using dhcpcd a year ago.  But, after looking for a bit, I think it’s not 
>> dhcpcd that is the problem.
>> 
>> Dhcpcd sends a router solicitation (RS) out and immediately gets an RA back, 
>> including the delegated IPv6 network I am expecting.  Then, it sends a 
>> neighbor solicitation (NS) and never gets an answer.  A few seconds later 
>> dhcpcd reports "vlan0: fe80::3e8a:b0ff:fe3e:4dce is unreachable” and begins 
>> the router solicitation process over.  This happens every few seconds.  I’ve 
>> assigned the delegated networks internally, but nothing works since I can’t 
>> send any traffic out.
>> 
>> The RA is coming from "fe80::3e8a:b0ff:fe3e:4dce” on vlan0, but there is 
>> never a routable address:
>> 
>> % ndp -an | grep 'fe80::3e8a:b0ff:fe3e:4dce'
>> fe80::3e8a:b0ff:fe3e:4dce%vlan0      (incomplete)       vlan0 expired   I
>> 
>> The NS I’m sending is to ff02::1:ff3e:4dce, but I’m never getting an answer. 
>>  It looks like I’m never getting any NAs.  I’ve tried turning on effectively 
>> “allow all icmpv6” in my pf.conf, and still seeing this.  And the pf.conf 
>> hadn’t changed since it was working in 14.1 a couple months ago.
>> 
>> Just looking for next steps now.  Interfaces are all vlan interfaces on an 
>> ix device running at 1gb/s.  Is there any known issue in 14.3-RELEASE-p1 ?
>> 
>> Thank you.
>> 
>> - Chris
>> 
> 

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