Wireguard ipv6 RTNETLINK answers: Permission denied [SOLVED]
Mar 13, 2021 20:17:26 GMT
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Post by ahen on Mar 13, 2021 20:17:26 GMT
An upstream change seems to have introduced this issue to (at least) debian based distributions.
I found that trying to start a Wireguard connection that included an ipv6 address started failing with the error:
A solution that worked was editing /etc/sysctl.conf to add:
Followed by reboot or just:
I found that trying to start a Wireguard connection that included an ipv6 address started failing with the error:
[#] ip -6 address add -redacted-/64 dev config_name
RTNETLINK answers: Permission denied
RTNETLINK answers: Permission denied
A solution that worked was editing /etc/sysctl.conf to add:
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 0
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 0
sudo sysctl -p
