Re: RTL8822CE IPv6 autoconfiguration not working

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Tony Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com> writes:

>> Subject: RTL8822CE IPv6 autoconfiguration not working
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I just bought a new laptop with an Realtek RTL8822CE wireless card
>> buildin. I'm using NetworkManager with its internal DHCP client. I have
>> working IPv6 autoconfiguration support in my home network with 7 devices
>> with different operating systems. When I plug a USB network card into
>> the laptop IPv6 is configured sucessfully. But with the wireless card
>> IPv6 autoconfiguration doesn't work. When I manually add an IPv6 with
>> "sudo ip -6 addr add <address>/64 dev wlp1s0" I can ping IPv6 targets.
>> So there seems to be an bug either in the driver or maybe in
>> NetworkManager which prevents autoconfiguration from working, can
>> sombody look into this? I'm glad to help and provide further
>> informations or test things out.
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> Joshua
>> 
>> 
>> ip addr
>> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state
>> UNKNOWN
>> group default qlen 1000
>>      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>      inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>>         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>>      inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>>         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> 2: wlp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq
>> state UP
>> group default qlen 1000
>>      link/ether 40:5b:d8:1a:7a:a9 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>>      inet 192.168.178.25/24 brd 192.168.178.255 scope global dynamic
>> noprefixroute wlp1s0
>>         valid_lft 863798sec preferred_lft 863798sec
>>      inet6 fe80::1b8b:8c3a:b569:a882/64 scope link noprefixroute
>>         valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> 
>> lspci -v
>> 01:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device c822
>> 	Subsystem: Electronics & Telecommunications RSH Device 1e25
>> 	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 71
>> 	I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
>> 	Memory at c0700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>> 	Capabilities: <access denied>
>> 	Kernel driver in use: rtw_pci
>> 	Kernel modules: rtwpci
>> 
>
> I am not sure if this is driver-related problem, but I think you can try to
> tcpdump and see where the autoconfiguration failed.
> And I am not an expert of IPv6, but if there is any issue with the driver I
> can help you.

My first guess would be some kind of multicast problem with power save
mode. I would first try disabling the power save mode on the driver and
see if that helps.

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