Workaround FreeBSD 12+ race condition on tun/tap open with IPv6.
On FreeBSD 12 (tested and verified on 12.1-RELEASE-p2), after "ifconfig
inet6" for a tun/tap interface, there sometimes is a race condition
where the "IFDISABLED" flag shows up after a short time frame, under
a second, and never clears itself. This disables use of the configured
IPv6 address on the interface, breaking IPv6 over tun/tap operation.
This only happens if ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" is not
set in /etc/rc.conf - but there might be reasons why this is not so.
As a workaround until this can be fixed on the FreeBSD side (or a
better workaround is found), sleep(1) after ifconfig, then call
"ifconfig $dev inet6 -ifdisable".
Yes, this is massively ugly but makes the problem completely go
away for my test systems.
(The same effect can be achieved with an --up script that does this,
but it's even less pretty - see trac ticket)
FreeBSD: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248172
v2: reword text, refer to FreeBSD bug with much more details
Trac: 1226
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Acked-by: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>
Message-Id: <
20200723121949.78223-1-gert@greenie.muc.de>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg20553.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>