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    WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity

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      JacktheSmack @SteveITS
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      @steveits said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

      Yeah that's probably because it's offline then. What happens if you check Disable Gateway Monitoring?

      Did that but and now it says it's online but still can't ping google.com

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        Tzvia @JacktheSmack
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        @jackthesmack Have you tried the delegation size of 60 or 56 instead of 64? I remember when I switched from ATT to my current provider (spectrum) I had tried to get a 60 delegated (I have a couple of VLANS), but had a similar issue as what you have; timeouts/packetloss and it just didn't work. Then I read somewhere that someone had a 56 working so I tried that and it worked. I then setup LAN as TRACK the WAN, and set the prefix ID number in the LAN and VLANs and I was mildly surprised that it worked. Can't hurt to give it a try. I also had to turn gateway monitoring OFF OR set an IPV6 ip to 'monitor' (chose google).

        Tzvia

        Current build:
        Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
        16 gigs ram
        500gig WD Blue nvme
        Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
        PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
        Enabled Intel SpeedShift
        Snort
        PFBlockerNG
        LAN and 5 VLANS

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          JacktheSmack @Tzvia
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          @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

          @jackthesmack Have you tried the delegation size of 60 or 56 instead of 64? I remember when I switched from ATT to my current provider (spectrum) I had tried to get a 60 delegated (I have a couple of VLANS), but had a similar issue as what you have; timeouts/packetloss and it just didn't work. Then I read somewhere that someone had a 56 working so I tried that and it worked. I then setup LAN as TRACK the WAN, and set the prefix ID number in the LAN and VLANs and I was mildly surprised that it worked. Can't hurt to give it a try. I also had to turn gateway monitoring OFF OR set an IPV6 ip to 'monitor' (chose google).

          No such luck trying any of that. Is there any sort of logging I can look at that can help determine what's going on?

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            JKnott @JacktheSmack
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            @jackthesmack

            I don't recall if you've mentioned this, but have you tried pinging something like ipv6.google.com from pfsense?

            PfSense running on Qotom mini PC
            i5 CPU, 4 GB memory, 32 GB SSD & 4 Intel Gb Ethernet ports.
            UniFi AC-Lite access point

            I haven't lost my mind. It's around here...somewhere...

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              Tzvia @JacktheSmack
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              @jackthesmack On INTERFACES in STATUS, your screenshot only shows your WAN having an IPV4 address, not an IPV6. I would think your WAN would have a 128, and your LAN, set to track interface WAN, would have a 64. Your gateway is a link-local (FE80::)... Has your ISP confirmed it's DHCP6? Could it be SLAAC?

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              Tzvia

              Current build:
              Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
              16 gigs ram
              500gig WD Blue nvme
              Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
              PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
              Enabled Intel SpeedShift
              Snort
              PFBlockerNG
              LAN and 5 VLANS

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                JacktheSmack @JKnott
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                @jknott said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                ipv6.google.com

                Yeah, I choose google.com and IPV6 which should return just fine. I just tried ipv6.google.com and still got 100% packet loss.

                @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                @jackthesmack On INTERFACES in STATUS, your screenshot only shows your WAN having an IPV4 address, not an IPV6. I would think your WAN would have a 128, and your LAN, set to track interface WAN, would have a 64. Your gateway is a link-local (FE80::)... Has your ISP confirmed it's DHCP6? Could it be SLAAC?

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                I have those settings set. When I plugged my PC directly into the modem it was DHCP. I also used to use DHCP back when I had Comcast and the same modem a few years ago.

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                  Tzvia @JacktheSmack
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                  @jackthesmack Do IPV6 IPs show in your INTERFACES on the dashboard now, because your post showing your INTERFACES only lists IPV4 addresses.

                  Tzvia

                  Current build:
                  Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
                  16 gigs ram
                  500gig WD Blue nvme
                  Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
                  PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
                  Enabled Intel SpeedShift
                  Snort
                  PFBlockerNG
                  LAN and 5 VLANS

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                    JacktheSmack @Tzvia
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                    @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                    @jackthesmack Do IPV6 IPs show in your INTERFACES on the dashboard now, because your post showing your INTERFACES only lists IPV4 addresses.

                    No they don't, despite the IPv6 addresses showing in the Status / Interfaces page.

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                      Tzvia @JacktheSmack
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                      @jackthesmack said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                      @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                      @jackthesmack Do IPV6 IPs show in your INTERFACES on the dashboard now, because your post showing your INTERFACES only lists IPV4 addresses.

                      No they don't, despite the IPv6 addresses showing in the Status / Interfaces page.

                      In your screenshot I only see the link local and gateway which looks to be an FE80. I don't see an IPV6 address assigned, that's why I am asking. You would think that if your router was getting functional IPV6 from the ISP and was set correctly and was assigned, you would have IPs assigned from the ISP, not just a link local address.
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                      Tzvia

                      Current build:
                      Hunsn/CWWK Pentium Gold 8505, 6x i226v 'micro firewall'
                      16 gigs ram
                      500gig WD Blue nvme
                      Using modded BIOS (enabled CSTATES)
                      PFSense 2.72-RELEASE
                      Enabled Intel SpeedShift
                      Snort
                      PFBlockerNG
                      LAN and 5 VLANS

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                        JacktheSmack
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                        @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                        @jackthesmack said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                        @tzvia said in WAN DHCP6 gets addresses, but no connectivity:

                        @jackthesmack Do IPV6 IPs show in your INTERFACES on the dashboard now, because your post showing your INTERFACES only lists IPV4 addresses.

                        No they don't, despite the IPv6 addresses showing in the Status / Interfaces page.

                        In your screenshot I only see the link local and gateway which looks to be an FE80. I don't see an IPV6 address assigned, that's why I am asking. You would think that if your router was getting functional IPV6 from the ISP and was set correctly and was assigned, you would have IPs assigned from the ISP, not just a link local address.
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                        Well this seems like an ISP issue now, because I plugged in my PC directly into the modem and now IPV6 doesn't work anymore.

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