@yellowRain said in pfSense Plus 25.07 Beta Now Available:
Here are some tips and ideas on ipv6.
You would have to start with the start : your ISP.
The bad news : IPv6 isn't IPv4.
After decades, for IPv4, the DHCPv4 WAN IP attribution won. Some ISPs still persist offering a PPPOE connection. What left - 1 % or so, is "totally not standard", so you have to use the ISP box, and connect pfSense as a 'LAN device' using DHCPv4 on the WAN, and you done.
For IPv6 : if your ISP was respecting all IPv6 RFCs, then 'set WAN to use DHCPv6-client, and done.
Maybe some ISP give you a page with IPv6 setting, but I guess that's pretty rare.
Some ISP propose the awkward "Negociate IPv6 over IPv4" or some other strange method.
So, normally - afaik, already this :
setting a custom static ipv6 address for pfsense router
is already quiet 'non standard'.
The ISP or ISP box should give :
An IPv6 WAN address for the pfSense WAN interface
and
as many 'prefixes' (/64 networks) for every pfSense LAN your pfSense has.
Typically, your ISP or ISP has 256 (/56) indicate with of these prefixes for you (probably minus on, as from the first prefix, only one IPv6 is used, the one for your pfSense WAN).
But, as the bad news tells us : every ISP on planet earth has probably broken something (uses their own non RFC method).
I'm not staying your 'static' method isn't good, Just that it is - again afaik - not standard.
Btw : SLAAC : things can be done differently, I guess, I just never used it.
