diff --git a/package/gluon-core/files/lib/netifd/proto/gluon_wired.sh b/package/gluon-core/files/lib/netifd/proto/gluon_wired.sh
index 5bc33d22..796ee3e5 100755
--- a/package/gluon-core/files/lib/netifd/proto/gluon_wired.sh
+++ b/package/gluon-core/files/lib/netifd/proto/gluon_wired.sh
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ proto_gluon_wired_init_config() {
         proto_config_add_boolean transitive
         proto_config_add_int index
         proto_config_add_boolean vxlan
+        proto_config_add_string vxpeer6addr
 }
 
 xor2() {
@@ -15,8 +16,24 @@ xor2() {
         echo -n "${1:1:1}" | tr '0123456789abcdef' '23016745ab89efcd'
 }
 
+is_layer3_device () {
+        local addrlen="$(cat "/sys/class/net/$1/addr_len")"
+        test "$addrlen" -eq 0
+}
+
 # shellcheck disable=SC2086
 interface_linklocal() {
+        if is_layer3_device "$1"; then
+                if ! ubus call network.interface dump | \
+                     jsonfilter -e "@.interface[@.l3_device='$1']['ipv6-address'][*].address" | \
+                     grep -e '^fe[89ab][0-9a-f]' -m 1; then
+                        proto_notify_error "$config" "MISSING_LL_ADDR_ON_LOWER_IFACE"
+                        proto_block_restart "$config"
+                        exit 1
+                fi
+                return
+        fi
+
         local macaddr="$(ubus call network.device status '{"name": "'"$1"'"}' | jsonfilter -e '@.macaddr')"
         local oldIFS="$IFS"; IFS=':'; set -- $macaddr; IFS="$oldIFS"
 
@@ -29,11 +46,12 @@ proto_gluon_wired_setup() {
 
         local meshif="$config"
 
-        local transitive index vxlan
-        json_get_vars transitive index vxlan
+        local transitive index vxlan vxpeer6addr
+        json_get_vars transitive index vxlan vxpeer6addr
 
         # default args
         [ -z "$vxlan" ] && vxlan=1
+        [ -z "$vxpeer6addr" ] && vxpeer6addr='ff02::15c'
 
         proto_init_update "$ifname" 1
         proto_send_update "$config"
@@ -46,8 +64,9 @@ proto_gluon_wired_setup() {
                 [ -n "$index" ] && json_add_string macaddr "$(lua -e "print(require('gluon.util').generate_mac($index))")"
                 json_add_string proto 'vxlan6'
                 json_add_string tunlink "$config"
+                # ip6addr (the lower interface ip6) is used by the vxlan.sh proto
                 json_add_string ip6addr "$(interface_linklocal "$ifname")"
-                json_add_string peer6addr 'ff02::15c'
+                json_add_string peer6addr "$vxpeer6addr"
                 json_add_int vid "$(lua -e 'print(tonumber(require("gluon.util").domain_seed_bytes("gluon-mesh-vxlan", 3), 16))')"
                 json_add_boolean rxcsum '0'
                 json_add_boolean txcsum '0'