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    • awebsterA
      awebster
      last edited by

      Satras,
      Setting the Router Advertisement to Managed means that the RA messages tell the client to look for a DHCPv6 server on the network.
      In this instance, SLAAC isn't used by clients.

      You need to set RA to Managed AND run a DHCPv6 server.  The RA message will provide information to the clients on what to use for default GW, and the DHCPv6 will give them IP and DNS settings.

      For example, assuming you have /48 prefix:

      • Enable Router Advertisements on your LAN interface, set to type Managed

      • Check on the Enable DHCPv6 Server on LAN interface
        Set range to prefix:1:0:0:0 to prefix:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff  (this leaves you prefix:0:0:0:0 to prefix:0:ffff:ffff:ffff for static IPs)
        Set DNS servers; if you don't have an IPv6 DNS server running, you can use Google's at 2001:4860:4860::8888 and 2001:4860:4860::8844 which correspond to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
        Set your domain name, and other options as required.

      On windows, you can use netstat -rn or netsh interface ipv6 show route to view the routing table.
      You will notice that the default gateway on windows will show as ::/0 and probably be pointing to fe80:suffix.  This is normal.

      –
      Andrew

      –A.

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      • ?
        A Former User
        last edited by

        Thanks Andrew,

        Ok, this is what I initially did and deploying IPv6 Addresses in my LAN works fine.
        I checked and netstat and netsh showed what you said.

        Ver”ff.  Typ       Met   Pr„fix                    			Idx  Gateway/Schnittstelle
        -------  --------  ----  ------------------------  			---  ---------------------
        Nein     Manuell   256  ::/0                       			16  fe80::cad3:a3ff:fea3:399d
        Nein     Manuell   256  ::1/128                    			 1  Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
        Nein     Manuell   8    2001::/32                  			12  Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
        Nein     Manuell   256  2001:0:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:d15a:2f34/128   	12  Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
        Nein     Manuell   8    fd00:a9d2:xxxx:xxxx::/64     			16  LAN-Verbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  fd00:a9d2:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:5842:5814/128   	16  LAN-Verbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::/64                  			16  LAN-Verbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::/64                  			15  Drahtlosnetzwerkverbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::/64                  			12  Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::5efe:192.168.xxx.xx/128   		17  isatap.box
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::2c5b:xxxx:xxxx:2f34/128   		12  Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::54de:xxxx:xxxx:4a6d/128   		15  Drahtlosnetzwerkverbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  fe80::7063:xxxx:xxxx:ee64/128   		16  LAN-Verbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  ff00::/8                    			1  Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1
        Nein     Manuell   256  ff00::/8                   			12  Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
        Nein     Manuell   256  ff00::/8                   			16  LAN-Verbindung 2
        Nein     Manuell   256  ff00::/8                   			15  Drahtlosnetzwerkverbindung 2
        
        
        IPv6-Routentabelle
        ===========================================================================
        Aktive Routen:
         If Metrik Netzwerkziel             Gateway
         16    266 ::/0                     fe80::cad3:a3ff:fea3:399d
          1    306 ::1/128                  Auf Verbindung
         12     58 2001::/32                Auf Verbindung
         12    306 2001:0:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:ebc7:d15a:2f34/128
                                            Auf Verbindung
         16     18 fd00:a9d2:xxxx:xxxx::/64   Auf Verbindung
         16    266 fd00:a9d2:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:5842:5814/128
                                            Auf Verbindung
         16    266 fe80::/64                Auf Verbindung
         12    306 fe80::/64                Auf Verbindung
         12    306 fe80::2c5b:xxxx:xxxx:2f34/128
                                            Auf Verbindung
         16    266 fe80::7063:xxxx:xxxx:ee64/128
                                            Auf Verbindung
          1    306 ff00::/8                 Auf Verbindung
         12    306 ff00::/8                 Auf Verbindung
         16    266 ff00::/8                 Auf Verbindung
        ===========================================================================
        St„ndige Routen:
          Keine
        

        However I am still not able to reach any IPv6 resource by either Ping or going to an IPv6 test website.

        It seems that there is something else I need to configure ?

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        • awebsterA
          awebster
          last edited by

          Satras,

          The problem appears to be that you are using non-routable IPv6 addresses!
          The IPv6 fd00::/8 block is defined in RFC 4193 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4193) as Unique Local Address and explicitly non-routable.  Think of these as similar to 192.168.x.x addresses, which cannot be routed over the Internet.
          You need to be using globally unique addresses.  Did you not get an IPv6 subnet from your provider?
          The minimum allocation recommended by IETF is /56, which is 256 /64 networks, which provides plenty of room.

          For example if you received 2001:0db8:1234:5600/56 from your provider, that means that your first subnet is 2001:0db8:1234:5600/64, the second one is 2001:0db8:1234:5601/64, all the way through 2001:0db8:1234:56ff/64 and so if the first subnet is on the WAN side, you can use any of the other subnets on the LAN side.

          –
          Andrew

          –A.

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          • ?
            A Former User
            last edited by

            See top post for what I'm getting

            IPv6 address 	fd97:xxxx:xxx:x::101a  
            Subnet mask IPv6 	112
            
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            • awebsterA
              awebster
              last edited by

              Satras,

              The problem is that the WAN interface is learning fd97:xxxx from the gateway, and  fd00::/8 (fd00:: to fdff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff) are non-routable.  It can't get to the Internet.  Perhaps the WAN device is not configured to give you a proper routable IPv6 subnet, you need to talk to the provider.

              –
              Andrew

              –A.

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              • ?
                A Former User
                last edited by

                Thanks, I understood that it's still possible, like it is right now, with NAT, right ?
                But I don't know how to configure it correctly.

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                • H
                  hda
                  last edited by

                  @Satras:

                  Thanks, I understood that it's still possible, like it is right now, with NAT, right ?
                  But I don't know how to configure it correctly.

                  Not right, just your internal home IPv6 network. A real native IPv6 is no-NAT-no-translation.

                  First get yourself an IPv6 address from your ISP. Something beginning with 2001: perhaps.
                  Then you will have a gateway to your outside world.

                  Why do you need IPv6 ?

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                  • ?
                    A Former User
                    last edited by

                    Who needs IPv6 right now ? I just want to be prepared and start my first tests with it.
                    I won't get a 2001 or similar public Network for various reasons.

                    So still the questions, how do I configure it to work now ?

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                    • H
                      hda
                      last edited by

                      @Satras:

                      Who needs IPv6 right now ? I just want to be prepared and start my first tests with it.

                      Well, the Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface is hardly the future to prepare for…

                      You would like an IPv6 numberblocksize as your own premises "frontdoornumbers", just as you have (but only) one IPv4 number now.

                      P.S.
                      I see now you have an NATting ISP and doing you as 10.8.0.28. That is another future idea, based on trying to avoid going IPv6. There you have it...

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                      • MikeV7896M
                        MikeV7896
                        last edited by

                        If your ISP supports IPv6 but only provides an IP address and not a prefix to be used on your LAN, then there's no way you can use it to route IPv6 traffic unless you have other services running in your router to do IPv6-based NAT (a HIGHLY uncommon setup at this point since there are so many IPv6 addresses available).

                        The next best thing to not having native IPv6 from your ISP would be to acquire a tunnel address block from a provider like SIXXS or Hurricane Electric. The tunnel will still operate over IPv4, but will provide you with a /64 or greater quantity of IPv6 addresses to use on your own network. Any IPv6 traffic from your network will go through the tunnel.

                        As far as who needs IPv6 now… there are parts of the world where IPv4 addresses are no longer available, or providers have gone to carrier-grade NAT (basically doing on a large scale what we at home have been doing for years; using a single public IPv4 address to serve many users with private network addresses).

                        While you're out seeking info about IPv6, you might also want to check out Hurricane Electric's IPv6 primer. They have info and exercises that you do to learn about IPv6 and some quick basic info on how it works.

                        The S in IOT stands for Security

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                        • R
                          Rooter
                          last edited by

                          @Satras:

                          Who needs IPv6 right now ? I just want to be prepared and start my first tests with it.
                          I won't get a 2001 or similar public Network for various reasons.

                          So still the questions, how do I configure it to work now ?

                          As I can see you're running a german Windows.
                          So whats your Provider right now?

                          Several Cable Providers and Telekom can give you IPv6 prefix to get your stuff runing.

                          What the others tried to tell you. There are some Options via Tunneling but right now  what do you have and what you done, is creating an "internal" Network with FDxx adresses also known as ULAs (unique LOCAL adresses).

                          These adresses where invented as replacement for site local adresses and as a Transition technique and These adresses are designed not to be routable.

                          You Need a tunnel Broker which is able to encaplsulate IPv6 through IPv4 or the mentioned ISP with IPv6 UGA prefix (unique GLOABL adresses, similiar to IPv4 public adresses).

                          I'm prepraring a Video tutorial series in english and german to explain all these basics and walk trough the processes.

                          if you interested stay tuned and give me some Feedback and Inputs.
                          call for ideas is open. ;)

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