Comment 1 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-09-30 08:49:57 UTC

if you can try main: please update to/past the revision mentioned in:
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless/2023-September/001441.html

Comment 2 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-10-25 21:16:16 UTC

(In reply to Bjoern A. Zeeb from comment #1)

In case you have any chance, can you try 14 or 15 and see if this is gone for you?

I'm seeing this exact same issue on 14.0-RC4.

I also commented out the IPv6 config from rc.conf, and magically WiFi started working again after reboot.

Comment 4 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-11-08 00:26:00 UTC

(In reply to Vincent Milum Jr from comment #3)

Hello Vincent,

which error exactly did you get.  Do you have a full log of it?

How did you install 14.0-RC4?  Was this a fresh install or a source update?

FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 fresh install via ISO image.

Also note that just doing a WiFi SSID scan from the installer image also fails.

Full dmesg:
https://gist.github.com/darkain/449cb04e6e932f0b468293711edd657a

Comment 6 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-11-09 20:05:13 UTC

(In reply to Vincent Milum Jr from comment #5)

Thanks.  Seems this is triggered by a possible race in net80211 also affecting other drivers but given LinuxKPI/iwlwifi does a lot more seems to expose it more easily.  I'll follow-up in a few days.  It seems cc@ can reproduce it reliably and will try to gather more info as I could not any more.

Comment 7 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-11-29 01:50:33 UTC

(In reply to Vincent Milum Jr from comment #5)

The installer problem is tracked here now:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=274990

MARKED AS SPAM

Comment 9 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2023-12-19 01:11:53 UTC

(In reply to Bjoern A. Zeeb from comment #2)

Kevin, any chance for you to test main, a recent stable/14 or recent stable/13?

Yes, I have been trying to solve this problem by updating the system, but until a few days ago I updated to a newer version of stable/14(FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE #0 stable/14-n265989-c07ebf5becae)and still had the same error. But I accidentally discovered a way to make ipv6 work properly, which is to use Link Aggregation and Failover. Below is my configuration. 


cloned_interfaces="lagg0 lo1"
##Link Aggregation and Failover
#
# Configuring Dynamic IPv6 Address
ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES"
rtsold_enable="YES"

#ifconfig_alc0="up"
#ifconfig_wlan0="up"
ifconfig_alc0="ether 47:b6:76:66:6e:59"
wlans_iwlwifi0="wlan0"
#ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
create_args_wlan0="wlanmode sta regdomain FCC country US"
wlandebug_wlan0="+state +node +auth +assoc +scan +output +dot1xsm +wpa +alc"
#cloned_interfaces="lagg0"
ifconfig_lagg0="up laggproto failover laggport alc0 laggport wlan0 SYNCDHCP"
#ifconfig_lagg0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA mode 11a"


It allows me to use the network normally with ipv6 enabled. 
"lo1" is the interface of my BastilleBSD. If you don't use jail, you can ignore it. 
Also since I want to enable ipv6 for all interfaces instead of configuring them one by one, I used ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="YES" and set net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv = "1".
I only know that this configuration allows me to use ipv6 normally, but I don't know why. Hope this helps anyone with the same problem. Hopefully this bug can be fixed soon.

(In reply to Bjoern A. Zeeb from comment #9)
If there is a fix for this bug, I'd be happy to test it.

Comment 12 commit-hook 2024-02-14 19:50:36 UTC

A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=713db49d06deee90dd358b2e4b9ca05368a5eaf6

commit 713db49d06deee90dd358b2e4b9ca05368a5eaf6
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-10 10:14:16 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-14 19:47:21 +0000

    net80211: deal with lost state transitions

    Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
    cause trouble further down the road.
    The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger these for example.
    Drivers for firmware based wireless cards have worked around some of
    this (and other) problems in the past.

    Add an array of tasks rather than a single one as we would simply
    get npending > 1 and lose order with other tasks.  Try to keep state
    changes updated as queued in case we end up with more than one at a
    time.  While this is not ideal either (call it a hack) it will sort
    the problem for now.
    We will queue in ieee80211_new_state_locked() and do checks there
    and dequeue in ieee80211_newstate_cb().
    If we still overrun the (currently) 8 slots we will drop the state
    change rather than overwrite the last one.
    When dequeing we will update iv_nstate and keep it around for historic
    reasons for the moment.

    The longer term we should make the callers of
    ieee80211_new_state[_locked]() actually use the returned errors
    and act appropriately but that will touch a lot more places and
    drivers (possibly incl. changed behaviour for ioctls).

    rtwn(4) and rum(4) should probably be revisted and net80211 internals
    removed (for rum(4) at least the current logic still seems prone to
    races).

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (in 2023)
    MFC after:      3 days
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43389

 sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwn.c         |   4 +-
 sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rum.c      |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211.c       |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_ddb.c   |  13 ++++-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_var.h   |  13 ++++-
 6 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

Comment 13 commit-hook 2024-02-14 19:50:39 UTC

A commit in branch main references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=2ac8a2189ac6707f48f77ef2e36baf696a0d2f40

commit 2ac8a2189ac6707f48f77ef2e36baf696a0d2f40
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-03 16:33:56 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-14 19:47:53 +0000

    LinuxKPI: 802.11: band-aid for invalid state changes after (*iv_update_bss)

    With firmware based solutions we cannot just jump from an active session
    to a new iv_bss node without tearing down state for the old and bringing
    up the new node.  This likely used to work on softmac based cards/drivers
    where one could essentially set the state and fire at will.

    We track (*iv_update_bss) calls from net80211 and set a local flag that
    we are out of synch and do not allow any further operations up the state
    machine until we hit INIT or SCAN.  That means someone will take the state
    down, clean up firmware state and then we can join again and build up
    state.

    Apparently this problem has been "known" for a while as native iwm(4) and
    others have similar workarounds (though less strict) and can be equally
    pestered into bad states.  For LinuxKPI all the KASSERTs just massively
    brought this problem out.  The solution will be some rewrites in net80211.
    Until then, try to keep us more stable at least and not die on second
    join1() calls triggered by service netif start wlan0 and similar.

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (2023, partial)
    MFC after:      3 days
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43725

 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.c | 309 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.h |   2 +
 2 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Comment 14 commit-hook 2024-02-18 21:12:11 UTC

A commit in branch stable/14 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b392b36d3776b696601ce0253256803276d24ea2

commit b392b36d3776b696601ce0253256803276d24ea2
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-10 10:14:16 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-18 18:31:17 +0000

    net80211: deal with lost state transitions

    Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
    cause trouble further down the road.
    The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger these for example.
    Drivers for firmware based wireless cards have worked around some of
    this (and other) problems in the past.

    Add an array of tasks rather than a single one as we would simply
    get npending > 1 and lose order with other tasks.  Try to keep state
    changes updated as queued in case we end up with more than one at a
    time.  While this is not ideal either (call it a hack) it will sort
    the problem for now.
    We will queue in ieee80211_new_state_locked() and do checks there
    and dequeue in ieee80211_newstate_cb().
    If we still overrun the (currently) 8 slots we will drop the state
    change rather than overwrite the last one.
    When dequeing we will update iv_nstate and keep it around for historic
    reasons for the moment.

    The longer term we should make the callers of
    ieee80211_new_state[_locked]() actually use the returned errors
    and act appropriately but that will touch a lot more places and
    drivers (possibly incl. changed behaviour for ioctls).

    rtwn(4) and rum(4) should probably be revisted and net80211 internals
    removed (for rum(4) at least the current logic still seems prone to
    races).

    Given this changes the internal structure of 'struct ieee80211vap',
    which gets allocated by the drivers, and we do not have enough
    spares, all wireless drivers need to be recompiled.
    Given we are forced to do the update, we leave fields in the middle
    of the struct and add more spares at the same time.
    __FreeBSD_version gets updated to 1400509 to be able to detect
    this change.

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (in 2023)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43389

    (cherry picked from commit 713db49d06deee90dd358b2e4b9ca05368a5eaf6)
    (cherry picked from commit a890a3a5ddf33acb0a4000885945b89156799b07)

 UPDATING                       |   6 ++
 sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwn.c         |   4 +-
 sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rum.c      |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211.c       |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_ddb.c   |  13 ++++-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_var.h   |  15 +++--
 sys/sys/param.h                |   2 +-
 8 files changed, 142 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Comment 15 commit-hook 2024-02-18 21:12:19 UTC

A commit in branch stable/14 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=8c450ea1083b03f30871506b59034f26bc608972

commit 8c450ea1083b03f30871506b59034f26bc608972
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-03 16:33:56 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-18 18:31:17 +0000

    LinuxKPI: 802.11: band-aid for invalid state changes after (*iv_update_bss)

    With firmware based solutions we cannot just jump from an active session
    to a new iv_bss node without tearing down state for the old and bringing
    up the new node.  This likely used to work on softmac based cards/drivers
    where one could essentially set the state and fire at will.

    We track (*iv_update_bss) calls from net80211 and set a local flag that
    we are out of synch and do not allow any further operations up the state
    machine until we hit INIT or SCAN.  That means someone will take the state
    down, clean up firmware state and then we can join again and build up
    state.

    Apparently this problem has been "known" for a while as native iwm(4) and
    others have similar workarounds (though less strict) and can be equally
    pestered into bad states.  For LinuxKPI all the KASSERTs just massively
    brought this problem out.  The solution will be some rewrites in net80211.
    Until then, try to keep us more stable at least and not die on second
    join1() calls triggered by service netif start wlan0 and similar.

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (2023, partial)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43725

    (cherry picked from commit 2ac8a2189ac6707f48f77ef2e36baf696a0d2f40)

 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.c | 309 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.h |   2 +
 2 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Comment 16 commit-hook 2024-02-19 08:09:19 UTC

A commit in branch stable/13 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=a7e1fc7f620d3341549c1380f550aaafbdb45622

commit a7e1fc7f620d3341549c1380f550aaafbdb45622
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-10 10:14:16 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-19 08:02:01 +0000

    net80211: deal with lost state transitions

    Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
    cause trouble further down the road.
    The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger these for example.
    Drivers for firmware based wireless cards have worked around some of
    this (and other) problems in the past.

    Add an array of tasks rather than a single one as we would simply
    get npending > 1 and lose order with other tasks.  Try to keep state
    changes updated as queued in case we end up with more than one at a
    time.  While this is not ideal either (call it a hack) it will sort
    the problem for now.
    We will queue in ieee80211_new_state_locked() and do checks there
    and dequeue in ieee80211_newstate_cb().
    If we still overrun the (currently) 8 slots we will drop the state
    change rather than overwrite the last one.
    When dequeing we will update iv_nstate and keep it around for historic
    reasons for the moment.

    The longer term we should make the callers of
    ieee80211_new_state[_locked]() actually use the returned errors
    and act appropriately but that will touch a lot more places and
    drivers (possibly incl. changed behaviour for ioctls).

    rtwn(4) and rum(4) should probably be revisted and net80211 internals
    removed (for rum(4) at least the current logic still seems prone to
    races).

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (in 2023)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43389

    (cherry picked from commit 713db49d06deee90dd358b2e4b9ca05368a5eaf6)

    Given this changes the internal structure of 'struct ieee80211vap',
    which gets allocated by the drivers, and we do not have enough
    spares, all wireless drivers need to be recompiled.
    Given we are forced to do the update, we leave fields in the middle
    of the struct and add more spares at the same time.
    __FreeBSD_version gets updated to 1303501 to be able to detect
    this change.

    (cherry picked from commit a890a3a5ddf33acb0a4000885945b89156799b07)

 UPDATING                       |   6 ++
 sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwn.c         |   4 +-
 sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rum.c      |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211.c       |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_ddb.c   |  15 ++++-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_var.h   |  18 +++---
 sys/sys/param.h                |   2 +-
 8 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

Comment 17 commit-hook 2024-02-19 08:09:30 UTC

A commit in branch stable/13 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=184ccc414686ea32c64f063c081c7cc1adeae7c3

commit 184ccc414686ea32c64f063c081c7cc1adeae7c3
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-03 16:33:56 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-19 08:02:02 +0000

    LinuxKPI: 802.11: band-aid for invalid state changes after (*iv_update_bss)

    With firmware based solutions we cannot just jump from an active session
    to a new iv_bss node without tearing down state for the old and bringing
    up the new node.  This likely used to work on softmac based cards/drivers
    where one could essentially set the state and fire at will.

    We track (*iv_update_bss) calls from net80211 and set a local flag that
    we are out of synch and do not allow any further operations up the state
    machine until we hit INIT or SCAN.  That means someone will take the state
    down, clean up firmware state and then we can join again and build up
    state.

    Apparently this problem has been "known" for a while as native iwm(4) and
    others have similar workarounds (though less strict) and can be equally
    pestered into bad states.  For LinuxKPI all the KASSERTs just massively
    brought this problem out.  The solution will be some rewrites in net80211.
    Until then, try to keep us more stable at least and not die on second
    join1() calls triggered by service netif start wlan0 and similar.

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (2023, partial)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43725

    (cherry picked from commit 2ac8a2189ac6707f48f77ef2e36baf696a0d2f40)

 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.c | 309 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.h |   2 +
 2 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Comment 18 commit-hook 2024-02-19 16:10:58 UTC

A commit in branch releng/13.3 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=9b998db87c28356fce21784c4f8bfb8737615e1f

commit 9b998db87c28356fce21784c4f8bfb8737615e1f
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-01-10 10:14:16 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-19 16:07:20 +0000

    net80211: deal with lost state transitions

    Since 5efea30f039c4 we can possibly lose a state transition which can
    cause trouble further down the road.
    The reproducer from 643d6dce6c1e can trigger these for example.
    Drivers for firmware based wireless cards have worked around some of
    this (and other) problems in the past.

    Add an array of tasks rather than a single one as we would simply
    get npending > 1 and lose order with other tasks.  Try to keep state
    changes updated as queued in case we end up with more than one at a
    time.  While this is not ideal either (call it a hack) it will sort
    the problem for now.
    We will queue in ieee80211_new_state_locked() and do checks there
    and dequeue in ieee80211_newstate_cb().
    If we still overrun the (currently) 8 slots we will drop the state
    change rather than overwrite the last one.
    When dequeing we will update iv_nstate and keep it around for historic
    reasons for the moment.

    The longer term we should make the callers of
    ieee80211_new_state[_locked]() actually use the returned errors
    and act appropriately but that will touch a lot more places and
    drivers (possibly incl. changed behaviour for ioctls).

    rtwn(4) and rum(4) should probably be revisted and net80211 internals
    removed (for rum(4) at least the current logic still seems prone to
    races).

    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (in 2023)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43389

    (cherry picked from commit 713db49d06deee90dd358b2e4b9ca05368a5eaf6)

    Given this changes the internal structure of 'struct ieee80211vap',
    which gets allocated by the drivers, and we do not have enough
    spares, all wireless drivers need to be recompiled.
    Given we are forced to do the update, we leave fields in the middle
    of the struct and add more spares at the same time.
    __FreeBSD_version will get updated to 1303001 to be able to detect
    this change.

    Approved by:    re (cperciva)

    (cherry picked from commit a890a3a5ddf33acb0a4000885945b89156799b07)
    (cherry picked from commit a7e1fc7f620d3341549c1380f550aaafbdb45622)

 sys/dev/rtwn/if_rtwn.c         |   4 +-
 sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rum.c      |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211.c       |   4 +-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_ddb.c   |  15 ++++-
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_proto.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 sys/net80211/ieee80211_var.h   |  18 +++---
 6 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

Comment 19 commit-hook 2024-02-19 16:11:00 UTC

A commit in branch releng/13.3 references this bug:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=d4b4efc6db6c6c3a9abf2f187ba1ccc0e40028cf

commit d4b4efc6db6c6c3a9abf2f187ba1ccc0e40028cf
Author:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-02-03 16:33:56 +0000
Commit:     Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2024-02-19 16:09:22 +0000

    LinuxKPI: 802.11: band-aid for invalid state changes after (*iv_update_bss)

    With firmware based solutions we cannot just jump from an active session
    to a new iv_bss node without tearing down state for the old and bringing
    up the new node.  This likely used to work on softmac based cards/drivers
    where one could essentially set the state and fire at will.

    We track (*iv_update_bss) calls from net80211 and set a local flag that
    we are out of synch and do not allow any further operations up the state
    machine until we hit INIT or SCAN.  That means someone will take the state
    down, clean up firmware state and then we can join again and build up
    state.

    Apparently this problem has been "known" for a while as native iwm(4) and
    others have similar workarounds (though less strict) and can be equally
    pestered into bad states.  For LinuxKPI all the KASSERTs just massively
    brought this problem out.  The solution will be some rewrites in net80211.
    Until then, try to keep us more stable at least and not die on second
    join1() calls triggered by service netif start wlan0 and similar.

    Approved by:    re (cperciva)
    PR:             271979, 271988, 275255, 263613, 274003
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation (2023, partial)
    Reviewed by:    cc
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43725

    (cherry picked from commit 2ac8a2189ac6707f48f77ef2e36baf696a0d2f40)
    (cherry picked from commit 184ccc414686ea32c64f063c081c7cc1adeae7c3)

 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.c | 309 +++++++++++++++++++--------
 sys/compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.h |   2 +
 2 files changed, 216 insertions(+), 95 deletions(-)

Comment 20 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2024-02-19 17:03:20 UTC

So the initial report is a PR 274382 problem "Invalid TXQ id".
I'll add that to "See also".

Kevin, could you confirm that this was always the issue?
Do you still see firmware crashes?

Given people generally have no trouble with IPv6 on iwlwifi, I keep wondering if changing rc.conf simply changes timing or lagg does an extra down/up cycle and it now works "by accident" not triggering the above mentioned problem anymore.

We'll probably should check again once 274382 is fixed.

If you have any further news in the meantime, please let us know.

(In reply to Bjoern A. Zeeb from comment #20)

Great work!

After an upgraded, This issue has been solved on my laptop. And system could work normally with ipv6 on, however the ipv6 could not work prefect. 

My laptop could get the public ipv6 address for a little time after startup, and then it will be instead with a private ipv6 address. 

I'm not sure if my system config cause this issue. 

"service netif restart" cannot solve this issue, except a reboot.

Comment 22 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2024-03-20 19:54:24 UTC

(In reply to Kevin from comment #21)

Hi Kevin,

I am not sure what you mean by a "private" IPv6 address?
If you don't want to share the ifconfig output publicly, please email it to me at bz@ and I'll have a look from "before" and "after" and we can sort that out.

Otherwise in case there is a multicast filter or otherwise issue there's a few things to look at.

Which FreeBSD version are you on now?

Can you check lifetimes using ifconfig -L and ndp -pn and ndp -rn at the time when it stops working?

Also can you go and check based on wpa_supplicant logging, how long it has been since your last (re)assoc or re-key?

Does running rtsol wlan0 bring things back at that point (please do not do a service netif restart (at least not before all this) as it destroys the wlan interface and creates a new one and all state is gone;  before that ifconfig wlan0 down; ifconfig wlan0 up  is a lot better to try).

What does a ping6 -n ff02::1%wlan0 show;  anything but your own interface link-local address?

Comment 23 Bjoern A. Zeeb 2024-06-07 21:57:32 UTC

I'll close this given the original issue seems fixed.

If the IPv6 problem persists (I am mostly on IPv6-only networks and haven't seen) please open a dedicated PR, assign it to me and we'll debug this.