setting up pfSense after years of uysing it

[randomaustralian]

@johnpoz setting it to track my wan address for a ipv6 address seems to have made my external ipv6 address dissapear

[randomaustralian]

i take that back it appears to be working now.

[JKnott]

@randomaustralian said in setting up pfSense after years of uysing it:

i take that back it appears to be working now.

I don't see anything other than link local addresses there. Do a capture of DHCPv6 and post the capture file here, so we can see what you've got.

[stephenw10]

Some providers will only pass you a prefix delegation once you set the subnet size in the request and then sometimes only if it matches what they are offering.

You don't actually have to have a valid public v6 IP on the WAN to be able to use a prefix on LAN. The ISP can route it to you over the link-local addresses.

Steve

[randomaustralian]

@jknott you right. i forgot the fe80 is the local link address. i'm currently asking my provider for the delegation

[randomaustralian]

the provider is saying hte prefix is 48 but the gateway says

The specified IPv6 Prefix ID is out of range. (wan) - (0) - (0)

[randomaustralian]

guy also suggested i use 2403:580B:FFFF:3E54::/64
but this come up with the wrror that i am not using a valid hexidecimal numer

[JKnott]

@randomaustralian said in setting up pfSense after years of uysing it:

the provider is saying hte prefix is 48 but the gateway says

The specified IPv6 Prefix ID is out of range. (wan) - (0) - (0)

You can select any prefix size you want, up to the max offered. How are they providing the prefix? Typically, DHCPv6-PD is used.

[stephenw10]

How do you have the two interfaces configured?

[johnpoz]

@randomaustralian said in setting up pfSense after years of uysing it:

provider is saying hte prefix is 48

That is like the largest prefix I have seen a isp give out.. Normally they are like /60 or /56 etc.

You can get a /48 from HE.. and not like there is not enough IPs for them to do that - whats the math there is enough space in the currently allocated IPv6 to give like everyone on the planet 4000 some /48s.. And the currently allocated portion of the total IPv6 space is just a small fraction.

up with the wrror that i am not using a valid hexidecimal numer

Are you trying to put that whole IP into the track prefix ID?

That would be like 0, or 1 or say F or even say A3, etc.. depending on which /64 out of the bigger prefix /48 or /56 or /60 it is..

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/interfaces/configure-ipv6.html#track-interface

[randomaustralian]

@johnpoz yes that is were i was trying to put it.

@stephenw10 did you want more info then this?

[johnpoz]

@randomaustralian said in setting up pfSense after years of uysing it:

yes that is were i was trying to put it.

Well then like I said you just put in the ID not the full address..

[randomaustralian]

@johnpoz
it has magically started working

thanks everyone for the help

[johnpoz]

@randomaustralian said in setting up pfSense after years of uysing it:

it has magically started working

No magic about it..

[randomaustralian]

@johnpoz

considering i was banging my head on a brick wall for days trying to get it working and now suddenly its working..........

It was probably because i turned it off to plug it in to my UPS

[randomaustralian]