setting up pfSense after years of uysing it

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