IPv6 Comcast not working - overlapping v6 prefix delegation subnets?

hardtarget

See the pltime and vltime (preferred and valid lease duration, in seconds); looks like the default is 4 days, and at the time of the capture the older lease had been active for about 20 minutes and counting.

Thanks razzfazz, I will keep ya'll posted over the next few days and let you know what happens.

AhnHEL

@Kyle:

So I did the above (requesting a /60 prefix on the WAN, then starting with my LAN, I did prefix ID's of 1-4), but now I'm not getting any IPv6 addresses on any connected networks (or interfaces). However, the WAN still has the /128 assigned to it.

Highly interested in this thread as I am seeing similar behavior. Requesting a /64 on TWC's Road Runner gives me a /128 for WAN and a /64 for the LAN and everything works as it should. DHCPv6 for WAN and Track Interface for LAN.

But when I request a /60 I get a /128 for WAN and a /60 for my LAN, WIFI, AND OPT interfaces using prefix ID's of 1-3 respectively. This looks awesome but no connected PCs get a IPv6 address and I get a 0/10 running the test at www.test-ipv6.com

razzfazz

Odd, I can request a /60 from Comcast just fine and I end up with different /64 prefixes (all subsets of the /60) on each internal interface, so it doesn't seem to be a general problem with the prefix delegation code. Do you get your v4 connectivity through PPPoE by any chance?

AhnHEL

Yeah, might be something screwy with my ISP requesting anything larger than a /64 that it gives me a /60 on every interface. IPv6 addresses all look good (no private IPv6 addreses) but its still not routing or handing out IPs

No PPPoE here, cable modem connection with native IPv6.

razzfazz

SLAAC doesn't work with anything but /64's, so I'm not surprised the clients wouldn't know what to do if you advertise a /60 to them.

AhnHEL

This is with Track Interface though, or am I missing something? I know quite a bit about networking but I'm still trying to grasp this IPv6 and its terminology.

razzfazz

Yeah, I don't understand why that seems to end up advertising the whole prefix on the internal interfaces for some; just pointing out that it's not unexpected that clients wouldn't be able to get an IPv6 address when that happens.

AhnHEL

Reverted back to DHCP6 on WAN with a /64 Prefix Delegation Size, and Track Interface on LAN.

This is the only way I can get IPv6 to work albeit just on the LAN. Any other method either doesnt give out IPv6 addresses or causes workstations to fail the IPv6 test sites.

hardtarget

@Kyle:

Thanks razzfazz, I will keep ya'll posted over the next few days and let you know what happens.

Okay, so I wanted to check and see if the lease times were decrementing for each of the prefix advertisements (/60 vs. /64) comparing the 10/4 capture to one from 10/6 (today).

ipv6-comcast-20131004.cap (packets 38-40)
/60 Prefix Advertisement (packet 39)
Preference: 0
Preferred lease time (pltime): 345600
Valid lease time (vltime): 345600
/64 Prefix Advertisement (packet 40)
Preference: 255
preferred lease time (pltime): 345385
valid lease time (vltime): 345385
ipv6-comcast-20131006.cap (packets 98-100)
/60 Prefix Advertisement (packet 99)
Preference: 0
Preferred lease time (pltime): 345600
Valid lease time (vltime): 345600
/64 Prefix Advertisement (packet 100)
Preference: 255
preferred lease time (pltime): 174315
valid lease time (vltime): 174315

So, it does look like the /64 lease will eventually expire in about 48 hours. Hopefully that will trigger the /60 offer to take effect.

hardtarget

Okay, so it looks like my leases have expired, I am getting a new address on the WAN interface (/128), but still nothing on the backend. I do see these error messages in the System Logs though:


Oct 8 15:31:15 	dhcp6c[72315]: client6_recvadvert: XID mismatch
Oct 8 15:31:15 	dhcp6c[72315]: client6_recvadvert: XID mismatch
Oct 8 15:29:14 	dhcp6c[72315]: client6_recvadvert: XID mismatch
Oct 8 15:29:14 	dhcp6c[72315]: client6_recvadvert: XID mismatch

In this capture from today, I can see the pltime/vltime have reset in packets 70-72–the /60 offer is valid for 345600 with preference 00 and the /64 is valid for 329817 with preference 255. To me, it seems like this is still broken, though I can't tell if it's Comcast handing out bad leases or pfSense not picking the right one--perhaps it's got something to do with the XID mismatch above as well?

kolinger

I've been struggling with the same problem as ahnhell for the last few days and finally got it working. I'm on TWC also and was able to get it to work by selecting the send prefix hint option and setting the prefix size to 64. I've verified that when I select 60 as the prefix size, I get a/56 which results in /60's for my LAN and dmz interfaces. I checked and pfsense is setting the prefix as "::/64 infinity" in dhcp6c_wan.cfg.

Am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to be configured or is TWC's implementation wrong?

razzfazz

It's just a hint, so at the end of the day, they can do whatever they want with it (including ignoring it completely); that said, that behavior does seem odd. What size prefix do they give you when you uncheck "send hint"?

kolinger

So, I spoke too soon - that's what I get for trying to test from my iPhone. But it does look like selecting a prefix of /56 will work. I will do more testing to verify.

If I don't send a hint I get a /64.

Edit: I've done further testing and verified that when I request a /56 that is what I receive. So this config seems to work (at least with TWC.)

I guess the problem is when pfSense is configured to request a /60 the sla-len in the pd options is set to 4. But when a /56 is received instead of the expected /60 each interface is configured with a /60 and stateless autoconfig won't work with this. Hope this helps someone else.

hardtarget

@kolinger:

Edit: I've done further testing and verified that when I request a /56 that is what I receive. So this config seems to work (at least with TWC.)

I've tried sending the /56 as the hint, and it's still not working. Haven't had a chance to look at a packet capture yet, but I may end up having to call Comcast, which isn't really my first choice, but I don't know what else to try.

mikeisfly

Sorry guys just saw this post. I had posted about this weeks ago in another thread. This is only for Comcast as far as I know, but if you live in the north east right now the CMTS's are not setup to deal with a prefix any larger/smaller than /64. See http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,65724.15.html

Below is a link if you private message the OP of the forum he can tell you if this feature is supported yet in your area. He will need the CMAC of your cable modem. DON'T POST YOUR CMAC IN THE PUBLIC.

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/IPv6-prefix-size-and-home-routing/td-p/1495933

razzfazz

@Kyle:

I've tried sending the /56 as the hint, and it's still not working. Haven't had a chance to look at a packet capture yet, but I may end up having to call Comcast, which isn't really my first choice, but I don't know what else to try.

Did you try changing the MAC address on the WAN interface?

razzfazz

@Kyle:

I've tried sending the /56 as the hint, and it's still not working.

Also, this will definitely not work on Comcast; as far as I know, the shortest prefix they'll hand out is a /60.

AhnHEL

Finally found success, thanks to Kolinger's statements. I've been requesting a /60 trying to get this to work to no end.

Requested a /56 on WAN with DHCP6, and then setup the other interfaces for Track Interface. When selecting Track Interface, I then hit Save, and once the page refreshes, I then enter the Prefix ID, hit Save again and then Apply Changes. Then did the same for my other interfaces, then rebooted.

Once rebooted I got a proper /128 for WAN and a /64 for each of my other interfaces using the proper Prefix ID on each interface. In the screen below you can see I used 1d for LAN, 2e for WLAN, and 3f for DMZ as Prefix ID's. Any computer connected to these interfaces gets a proper IPv6 address within the correct /64 prefix ID that was setup.

Ran a test at http://test-ipv6.com and got a 10/10 using a PC behind each interface so all is working now. ;D

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hardtarget

@mikeisfly:

Below is a link if you private message the OP of the forum he can tell you if this feature is supported yet in your area. He will need the CMAC of your cable modem. DON'T POST YOUR CMAC IN THE PUBLIC.

http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/IPv6-prefix-size-and-home-routing/td-p/1495933

I went ahead and posted a question in the Comcast forum.

@razzfazz:

Did you try changing the MAC address on the WAN interface?

No, I'd rather not do that unless I absolutely have to–it should just work.

AhnHEL

Back to IPv4 unfortunately. Every 48 hours I was losing my WAN connection, I assume during the DHCP renew and the cable modem would show loss of sync in its log files. Back to IPv4 and my connection is back to rock solid.