@roycethebiker

Did you select 56 for the prefix size?

Looks like a bug has been filed by the dev team.

It is set on for me per my above post. But, I am on 2.6.0 (which is 22.2 config rev).

@pfadmin

Assuming you want access from elsewhere, how would that help? You still have to allow the outside world to know what the address is.

@jagdtigger

You said an ordinary computer doesn't work. Try complaining about and see what they say. I know it can sometimes be difficult to get through support.

@jknott works like a charm now! thanks!

@ddbnj said in Site to Site ipv6 best practice GUA vs ULA:

I'm still using IPv4 tunnels but am transmitting IPv6 packets across.

I do the same. I don't run the tunnel over IPv6 due to DNS issues. My IPv4 address is an alias that points to the ISP provided host name. Using the alias prevents the DNS server from returning the IPv6 address, which is a regular AAAA record. However, pfSense is configured to allow either IPv4 or IPv6.

@jarhead said in xfinity/comcast ipv6 issue:

But the CGNAT issue I agree with and is valid. Other than that, no reason for IPv6.

When NAT first came out, it broke FTP clients.
It breaks VoIP and some games, requiring STUN to get around it.
It breaks IPSec authentication headers.
It adds work load to routers.
IPv6 provides far more than enough addresses.
IPv6 adds security features.
IPv6 improves router performance.
Etc..

@jknott

The packet capture via mac address is a good idea. If I decide to create an IPv6 table for my local devices, I'll use it.

Regarding routing, I realized that I have to add a route for ULA devices if I don't create an address for the interface itself. It's for devices on a different VLAN to reach ULA devices (admin to IOT).

Anyway, thanks for your insights. Learning and deploying IPv6 has been pretty time consuming, I got to catch up with my real life!

Thanks,

Devan

@mloiterman Make a /128 Virtual IP address on your WAN in on of the /64s you want to route downstream. Make a WAN rule passing ICMP6 to that address. Ping it from the outside. Until that works you're not going to be able to route it downstream.

pfSense is doing what it's supposed to be doing with the /64s on a tracked inside interface. That doesn't mean it's a new delegation. Just that dhcpd is adding that prefix to that interface from the delegation.

Go to System > Advanced, Networking and enable the debug on dhcp6c. Then edit/save WAN. Then go to Status > System Logs, DHCP and filter on Process: dhcp6c. See what is there. That should show you the prefix that was assigned.

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I only keep zipping files since this webpage doesn't accept my native uploads. The screenshots have to be less than 2MB or they get rejected. The only way I could get the screenshot that small was to make it a PDF file which isn't accepted. Saving it as a .BMP or .JPG the file was just over 2MB and wasn't accepted.

Frank

So, I found a GUI "bug". I had correctly set the prefix ID's in the "Tracked Interface" for each VLAN, but at the RA page, I mistakenly reinserted the prefix ID in the fields that are for static (full, not delegated) prefixes. Removed the static prefixes and everything now works. GUI should not let you enter static prefixes on a tracked interface, aside from fc00 or fd. And if it does, it should check if they are correct. One of the prefixes was ::1/64.

@noviceiii

Here's an example of what I'm looking for in the captures. This is just part of one packet of 8.

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@cyth I did a clean installation of pFSense out of the box provided IPV6, without changing any settings. Looks like they just started rolling dual stack so it will be some issues until they figure it out and finish the implementation. So far my pFSense is working, no issues with internet IPV6 traffic. From Verizon Automatic provide to pFSense address size.

Then I upgraded to pFSense plus, no issues working our of the box.

I spend a lot of time tried to figure it out, and looks like all this time was Verizon implementation issues.

I found out I started getting IPV6 because, some of my devices stop working, the reason was because those devices tried to communicate only using IPV6, they were giving priority over IPv4.

@zennb1

Clients rely on router advertisements to learn the LAN prefix and they append the suffix to it. Run Packet Capture, filtering on icmpv6, to see if you have them. You could also run Wireshark on a computer to do the same thing.

@mikev7896 My problem is that my ISP sends multiple /64 IP prefixes with its RAs although DHCPV6 is used
Pfsense than takes these Prefixes and configures multiple wan addresses. The problem is now that not all of these addresses work
My idea was then to switch off the Address Auto configuration on WAN, but I don't know exactly how I can do that

@steveits
Hey there and thanks for your reply.
That is what I thought.
So, there must have been some rule responsible for this issue. Since the Screenshots of wan and lan did not show any such rule, I figured there must have been other rules...
Just uninstalling pfblockerng solving the problem seems strange otherwise.
Just trying to understand this issue.

@vortex21

Hi, I reconfigured my network yesterday to eliminate the pfSense WAN connection being on a VLAN on the external network port. The WAN interface is now the physical interface card my problem of IPv6 WAN Gateway monitoring reporting 100% loss no longer occurs.
So it appears the problem was related to the use of a VLAN.

Oof, maybe I am just an idiot. I finally looked at /var/etc/radvd.conf:

interface igc0 { AdvSendAdvert on; MinRtrAdvInterval 200; MaxRtrAdvInterval 600; AdvDefaultLifetime 1800; AdvLinkMTU 1500; AdvDefaultPreference medium; AdvManagedFlag on; AdvOtherConfigFlag on; prefix [COMCAST-PREFIX]::/64 { DeprecatePrefix on; AdvOnLink on; AdvAutonomous on; AdvValidLifetime 86400; AdvPreferredLifetime 14400; }; prefix fd0f:f5b9:d3f9:3068::/64 { DeprecatePrefix on; AdvOnLink on; AdvAutonomous on; }; route ::/0 { AdvRoutePreference medium; RemoveRoute on; }; RDNSS fd0f:f5b9:d3f9:3068::1 { AdvRDNSSLifetime 1800; }; DNSSL [DOMAIN] { AdvDNSSLLifetime 1800; };

Sorry for wasting your time! It looks like pfsense's configuration "does the right thing" in radvd.

@jimp I get it, sorry for the misunderstanding

@dvonhand

Once again, you need packet captures, to see what's happening.

@jknott

Yeah after doing a bunch of research and reading some IPv6 RFC's I decided to just use unmanaged. Everything is working good and I got to turn off the DHCPv6 server. One less thing I have to deal with.

@bob-dig said in After IPv6 prefix change no IPv6 connectivity on Windows host:

Maybe the default lease times for IPv6 should be drastically shortened on any interface which uses "track".

Another way to tackle that would be to use NPt I guess. So it would be great for that, if pfSense allows to use Track Interface in the NPt options directly instead of only using it for "physical" interfaces.

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@skilledinept

If you want to connect to the firewall with a VPN, etc., you can use another interface address, such as the LAN.

Perhaps if you mentioned your ISP, someone else might be able to help.

Update: I did some more reading on these forums and found this discussion from a few months ago that contained the solution.

I need to specify the whole prefix delegation range allocated to me by the ISP:
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As far as I know it's not possible to automatically update this prefix delegation range if the ISP decides to change it; I'll have to update it manually if that ever happens. Please correct me if this statement is wrong...

Consider this question answered. Will leave the post up in the hopes that it will serve as a template / tutorial for others trying to do the same thing in the future.

@jknott I didn't upgrade because of the issues with intel nics and the at&t fiber bypass on 2.6.x
Apparently, fixed drivers aren't going to be provided till 2.7 so I'm holding off till then. Having my primary connection working is more important then having the latest version.

If some sites work, but others don't, it's not likely a pfSense issue. What comes to mind is the site has an IPv6 address, but it's not working properly. However, in that case, it should time out and switch to IPv4.

Can you do a packet capture of what happens when those sites fail?

@junicast
To whom it may concern.

We just migrated to different hardware and the original problem with reloading firewall rules is now resolved big relief.
Actually it happened again. I suspect the Intel X170 are just bad and the update to pfSense 2.6 triggers this problem.

Jun 30 10:24:05 fw3-rx kernel: ixl0: Interface stopped DISTRIBUTING, possible flapping

The other problem persists. Neighbor discovery fails and the reason is that the primary firewall uses its Global Unicast address in the source field instead of the Link Local address. That was not the reason. We observed other occurences of NDP using UGA as source and those worked.

At first I though some NAT rules might be the reason for that but after deactivation the problem persists.

I checked that all interfaces have a Link Local address assigned so that also isn't the reason.

Does someone have an idea under what circumstances this might happen?

Edit:
We contacted Netgate about it. They think this might be an actual FreeBSD bug. They do now have a solution, yet.

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@jimp Working fine here too 👍

@hsv I noticed problems with IPv6 too, but for me these are not general but individual to an interface. For example, because mine is virtual and I deleted a "faulty" interface, added a new one and problem was gone (new MAC address etc.). So maybe try this four your installation too, if you can.

@jbattermann I used :1::1/64 as the gateway address and the following in the RA section as I have Apple devices :-

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When this used to be a problem for me, I added the 192.168.100.x IP to the dhcp ignorelist so pfSense would not accept it when offered by the ISP CPE. This definitely helped.

@jknott said in fe80::1:1 as static route for ipv6 track interface LAN? also LAN link-local no response?:

There are 256 possible prefixes within that /48. You use the other prefixes for other interfaces.

My mistake. That should be 65536, not 256. Better have another beer. 😉

@bob-dig Thank you, but why the German sub-forum? 🤔

In the end, I will have to try what you suggested. I was hoping to get to know, how to analyse such issues, to learn something and solve future problems by myself.

I just pushed an update to my PR #4595 that attempts to mitigate this issue. Testers wanted!