I and trying to restart wide-dhcpv6 and I get this in the journalctl
Feb 03 12:09:49 router sudo[1285]: ciaran : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/ciaran ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/systemctl restart wide-dhcpv6-client Feb 03 12:09:49 router sudo[1285]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by ciaran(uid=0) Feb 03 12:09:49 router systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Start/Stop WIDE DHCPv6 client. -- Subject: Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has finished shutting down -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: -- -- Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has finished shutting down. Feb 03 12:09:49 router systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start/Stop WIDE DHCPv6 client... -- Subject: Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has begun start-up -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: -- -- Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has begun starting up. Feb 03 12:09:49 router wide-dhcpv6-client[1288]: * Starting WIDE DHCPv6 client dhcp6c Feb 03 12:09:49 router dhcp6c[1293]: ifreset: invalid interface(enp0s31f6): No such device Feb 03 12:09:49 router dhcp6c[1293]: main: failed to initialize enp0s31f6 Feb 03 12:09:51 router wide-dhcpv6-client[1288]: ...fail! Feb 03 12:09:51 router systemd[1]: wide-dhcpv6-client.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Feb 03 12:09:51 router systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Start/Stop WIDE DHCPv6 client. -- Subject: Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has failed -- Defined-By: systemd -- Support: -- -- Unit wide-dhcpv6-client.service has failed. -- -- The result is failed. Feb 03 12:09:51 router systemd[1]: wide-dhcpv6-client.service: Unit entered failed state. Feb 03 12:09:51 router systemd[1]: wide-dhcpv6-client.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. its trying to use an interface that was in my config file but I renamed it and replaced the name in my config
ciaran@router:/etc/wide-dhcpv6$ cat dhcp6c.conf ## ## This is/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf ## ## Replace the existing configuration with this one. # Send a PD request on the external facing interface # send ia-pd says ask for a prefix # the script is run when the prefix is acquired interface wan0 { send ia-pd 2; script "/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c-script"; }; # Upon receiving a prefix use the # information to set the internal facing interface id-assoc pd 2 { prefix-interface wlan0 { ifid 1; sla-id 1; sla-len 0; }; }; ## End of config. any idea why its attempting to use the wrong interface?
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there was a file in /etc/defauls setting the address to ask for a prefix on
ciaran@router:/etc/default$ cat wide-dhcpv6-client # Defaults for dhcpv6 client initscript # Used by /etc/init.d/wide-dhcpv6-client # Interfaces on which the client should send DHCPv6 requests and listen to # answers. If empty, the client is deactivated. INTERFACES="enp0s31f6" # Verbose level for syslog. Default is 0 (0: minimal; 1: info; 2: debug) #VERBOSE=0 after I changed that to wan0 it worked
