IPv6 and StarLink
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I swapped out a Ubiquiti ER-X for pfSense on a Protectli Vault due to StarLink routing issues. That's fixed the routing issues, but I'm not getting an IPv6 delegation now. IPv6 just worked on the ER-X.
I've looked up numerous how-tos for IPv6. All my settings appear correct, IPv6 is enabled, and I'm running rtsol every 2 minutes on my WAN interface as a cron job.
I saw that some system tuneables are needed to make IPv6 work on Telstra (Australia) services. Is there anything odd or obscure needed for StarLink?
Edit: Using pfSense CE 2.6.0
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@marty-mcsly
Not looking good.rtsol: checking if igb0 is ready... rtsol: igb0 is ready rtsol: set timer for igb0 to 0s rtsol: New timer is 0s rtsol: timer expiration on igb0, state = 1 rtsol: set timer for igb0 to 4s rtsol: New timer is 4s rtsol: rtmsg type 1, len=240 rtsol: New timer is 2s rtsol: timer expiration on igb0, state = 2 rtsol: set timer for igb0 to 4s rtsol: New timer is 4s rtsol: timer expiration on igb0, state = 2 rtsol: set timer for igb0 to 1s rtsol: New timer is 1s rtsol: timer expiration on igb0, state = 2 rtsol: No answer after sending 3 RSs rtsol: stop timer for igb0 rtsol: there is no timer -
So after more digging, it seems that it's not an issue with my pfSense configuration after all.
Many StarLink customers' public IPv4 addresses changed recently, which we thought was just a reallocation of addresses from the US to other parts of the world. Many of us got security alerts about suspicious logins from odd places. In my case, Boise, Idaho (I'm in Australia).
But what has happened is that StarLink has been moving customers from Google's infrastructure onto its own servers, Autonomous System 14593. And AS14593 doesn't do IPv6 yet.
I had noticed that my apparent ISP, as noted on Ookla speed tests, had changed from Google WiFi and was toggling between "Space Exploration Technologies" and "SpaceX Starlink".
Long story short, all I can do is wait for Starlink to catch up to the 21st century.
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@marty-mcsly said in IPv6 and StarLink:
wait for Starlink to catch up to the 21st century
Why wait ?
Start by dropping a Tweet on Elon Musk like this : "Hey, can you make these guys work even better : https://he.net/ ? ": -
I am now getting IPv6 addresses assigned by Starlink again. I didn't change anything but just noticed it today. I enabled WAN ping and can ping it from the mobile network. I am running rtsol every two minutes.
This hasn't worked for over six months, but today I noticed it was working again.
