Issues with IPv4v6 and IPv6 on openwrt with a Quectel EG06-E

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey!

>
> > Will have to continue investigating, but I believe the
> > IPv6/IPv4v6 support in the MM protocol handler is good enough now to
> > be sent to openwrt packages for review :D
>
> Definitely.
>

Here's the corresponding pull request:
https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/10497

>
> Off Topic:
>
> OpenWrt has lots of hidden features I really like.
>
> I wanted to use this new and fancy LTE connection as a remote management
> backup link to my network.  But this OpenWrt router already has an
> external link with a default route, and I wanted to keep that.  So I
> imagined I had to create a new routing table and a "good enough" traffic
> matching policy rule.  The last part seemed somewhat difficult since I
> didn't have much else than a dynamically allocated address to match on,
> and this address could be allocated from multiple prefixes.
>
> But OpenWrt comes to the rescue: Simply adding
>
>         option ip4table '42'
>
> to my 'mm' interface was enough. That's all! This not only created the
> associated routes in table 42 as expected, but also automatically set up
> sane rules using that table:
>
> root at wrt1900ac-1:~# ip rule
> 0:      from all lookup local
> 10000:  from 46.66.174.155 lookup 42
> 20000:  from all to 46.66.174.155/29 lookup 42
> 32766:  from all lookup main
> 32767:  from all lookup default
> 90007:  from all iif lo lookup 42
>
> root at wrt1900ac-1:~# ip route show table 42
> default via 46.66.174.156 dev wwan0 proto static src 46.66.174.155
> 46.66.174.152/29 dev wwan0 proto static scope link
>
> root at wrt1900ac-1:~# ip addr show dev wwan0
> 7: wwan0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
>     link/none
>     inet 46.66.174.155/29 brd 46.66.174.159 scope global wwan0
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>     inet6 fe80::e1eb:aead:72ac:df81/64 scope link stable-privacy
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>

That's very very handy actually. I've worked on a multi-wwan setup
myself (not using openwrt) with multiple default routes, and setting
up all the source based routing had to be done manually.

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Aleksander
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