Thanks for the quick response. I was hoping to blame the latest rolling release
Version: VyOS 1.4-rolling-202103040218
Release Train: sagitta
Built by: autobuild@vyos.net
Built on: Thu 04 Mar 2021 02:18 UTC
Build UUID: eede2569-5089-4177-8cb4-215f7e75f50b
Build Commit ID: 39ab069e421c6e
Architecture: x86_64
Boot via: installed image
System type: Xen HVM guest
Hardware vendor: Xen
Hardware model: HVM domU
Hardware S/N: ba300711-1a78-ee46-2a6b-fc40706d63f8
Hardware UUID: ba300711-1a78-ee46-2a6b-fc40706d63f8
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So it sounds like I did the syntax translation correctly and there is something else wrong in my set up. I’m coming from a slightly advanced beginner on EdgeOS and I’m doing this whole project to become more proficient with networking’s, specifically IPv6. So no surprise there.
Here’s my basic config before I add the tunnel, it’s incredibly stripped-down. I’m wondering if the lack of configuration of IPv4 on the lan side might be contributing something weird.
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 'dhcp'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 description 'WAN'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 hw-id 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:36'
set interfaces ethernet eth1 address 'xxx.xxx.4.1/24'
set interfaces ethernet eth1 description 'LAN'
set interfaces ethernet eth1 hw-id 'XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:b8'
set interfaces loopback lo
set service ssh port '22'
set system config-management commit-revisions '100'
set system console device ttyS0 speed '115200'
set system host-name xxxxxx
set system login user xxxxxx authentication encrypted-password xxxxxx
set system login user xxxxxx authentication plaintext-password xxxxxx
set system ntp server xxxxx.tld
set system ntp server xxxxx.tld
set system ntp server xxxxx.tld
set system syslog global facility all level 'info'
set system syslog global facility protocols level 'debug'
I’m not going to have much time to look at this until next weekend. So thank you in advance for any suggestions on what I should experiment with.
Ok, as I understand you have VyOS behind NAT. Which source-address are you trying to use? As I remember HE broker require a static remote IP addresses.
Remember correctly that my vyos device is behind my pfSense router. I’m using the WAN ip address from pfSense that is exposed to the world as the local-ip for the tunnel (I figured I wanted it to match what hurricane electric showed on the registry). I also set up an ICMP pass rule to allow hurricane electric to ping my outside router.
I also went back and re-created this situation in
Version: VyOS 1.3.0-rc1
Release Train: equuleus
The behavior I’m getting there is a little different. In this case IPv4 continues to work correctly even though I still can’t send v6 packets.
The box seems to think that the tunnel is up, but I’m not sure I agree with it.
vyos@vyos:~$ show interfaces
Codes: S - State, L - Link, u - Up, D - Down, A - Admin Down
Interface IP Address S/L Description
--------- ---------- --- -----------
eth0 192.150.23.231/24 u/u wan
lo 127.0.0.1/8 u/u
::1/128
tun0 2001:470:a:454::2/64 u/u HE.NET IPv6 Tunnel
vyos@vyos:~$ ping6 2a00:1450:400e:803::200e
PING 2a00:1450:400e:803::200e(2a00:1450:400e:803::200e) 56 data bytes
From 2001:470:a:454::2: icmp_seq=1 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable
From 2001:470:a:454::2: icmp_seq=2 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable
From 2001:470:a:454::2: icmp_seq=3 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable
From 2001:470:a:454::2: icmp_seq=4 Destination unreachable: Address unreachable
^C
--- 2a00:1450:400e:803::200e ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time 71ms
vyos@vyos:~$ traceroute 2a00:1450:400e:803::200e
traceroute to 2a00:1450:400e:803::200e (2a00:1450:400e:803::200e), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1 2001:470:a:454::2 (2001:470:a:454::2) 0.021 ms !H 0.005 ms !H 0.005 ms !H
The trace route makes it look like vyos is trying to place the packet in the end of the tunnel, but then it’s not going anywhere. Am I reading that right?
I haven’t lab’d yet, but try forwarding protocol 41 through your pfSense to VyOS. That should allow 6-to-4 traffic, which from my understanding is the sit tunnel.
I figured out the key to getting this to work was changing my tunnel local IP address from being the one exposed on the external pfSense firewall to instead the private IPV4 address of the vyos node itself. That allowed vyos to figure out the ipv4 routing off the device for the tunnel.
I also modified pfSense to check “Enable IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling” under System->Advanced->Networking.
Lastly I created a floating rule that was above my traffic shaping rule to pass IPv6 protocol packets (which I believe is how pfSense represents protocol 41 per List of IP protocol numbers - Wikipedia). I also set “Apply the action immediately on match.” To the rule as it’s not clear to me from documentation I read whether the traffic shaper I’m using would eat the packets.
I’m not 100% sure that I have the pfSense configuration correct yet. But I am successfully pinging and tracerouting from vyos over the tunnel now.
