Hey, glad you got it working :)
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Thomas Smith
<theitsm...@thomassmith.info> wrote:
> On July 28, 2017 at 3:37:18 PM, Hamza Sheikh (fehr...@codeghar.com) wrote:
>
> I went through the process of creating an OpenBSD-based gateway for my
> home network (IPv4 and IPv6). Learned a lot and documented my setup in
> a blog post[0]. Maybe it can help troubleshoot your IPv6 setup. Pay
> special attention to these sections: (a) cnmac0; (b) dhcp6c; (c) The
> "Wrong" Config.
>
> [0] http://codeghar.com/blog/openbsd-network-gateway-on-edgerouter-lite.html
>
>
> I had been trying wide-dhcpv6—even with no firewall rules enabled, it erred
> out—“no route to host” and some other info. I expected that this had to do
> with `rtsol` or `inet6 autoconf` not working properly in hostname.em0—but
> according to your blog post, it was likely a misconfiguration on my part.
>
> After Mr Archer’s post, instead of giving dhcpcd a shot I tried
> isc-dhcp-client—firewall off, it immediately pulled down an ip6 address
> from Cox. After making some adjustments to the firewall, it could pull down
> one with it enabled as well. Still have a few things to work out now, but
> this is a great start!
>
> Thanks for the input guys!
>
> One question…
>
> What would be necessary to bake this functionality into OpenBSD base? IPv6
> is pretty ubiquitous nowadays—most ISPs support it, most cloud providers
> support it—it seems common enough that much of this functionality should
> just work.
>
> I know that “common enough” isn’t a good reason to implement features or
> functionality, it just seems like a core capability that should be present.
>
> When I was researching how to set this up, I found many different ways to
> do so—some of the information was clearly dated, others not so much. It
> would be great to have just configure this via hostname.em0 (or whichever
> interface) and have it work.
>
> I’m fairly new to OpenBSD but if there’s something I can do to help with
> this, I’m happy to do so if it's within my skillset.
