IPv6 w/ Comcast and multiple nets not working
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Hi!
I figured I should probably jump on IPv6 now since it's been out for awhile and I have some free time on my hands. I have Comcast residential service and pfsense 2.3.1. I have multiple subnets…five all together. One is for servers, wireless internal, visitor, workstations, and the default 'lan', which isn't used. I enabled the following:
WAN
General:
IPv6 Configuration Type DHCP6DHCP6 client configuration:
DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation size /56
Send IPv6 prefix hint Check this boxServers
General:
IPv6 Configuration Type TrackTrack IPv6 Interface:
IPv6 Interface WAN
IPv6 Prefix ID 1Before I did anything, I was getting an IPv6 IP on the WAN, and still am. I'm also able to ping6 www.google.com on the pfsense console and I get responses back.
However, I am not getting an IPv6 address on my "Servers" interface and my workstation isn't receiving an IPv6 address. The address my workstation (on the servers subnet) is getting is...
fe80::4fd:7a97:9912:cd28/64
Do I also have to do something with the DHCPv6 Relay or DHCPv6 Server+RA?
Thanks in advanced...
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OK…I got it figured out...
Going through the dhcp server logs, I found:
"invalid prefix length 60 + 8 + 64"
I did a bit more research and flipped the 56 prefix size to a 60. Once doing this, I was able to get a DHCPv6 address on the workstations/servers and now able to ping google.
So, either Comcast doesn't support a /56 or I need my DHCP reservation to expire so I can get an updated one.
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Unless it's changed recently, the /56 is available on their business class service and the /60 is for residential.
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Unless it's changed recently, the /56 is available on their business class service and the /60 is for residential.
Thanks. I thought I read somewhere that /56 is available on their residential service too, but the answer seems to be all over the place. I'll have to play with this a bit more later on…
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I'll validate darkcrucible's statement as well… /56 for business, /60 for residential, both for cable internet service. The only Comcast residential offering that offers a smaller prefix is their Gigabit Pro 2Gbps active fiber service, where they give a /48.
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@virgiliomi:
I'll validate darkcrucible's statement as well… /56 for business, /60 for residential, both for cable internet service. The only Comcast residential offering that offers a smaller prefix is their Gigabit Pro 2Gbps active fiber service, where they give a /48.
A touch off-topic, but are there 16 subnets in a /60, where each subnet contains 254 hosts?
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@virgiliomi:
I'll validate darkcrucible's statement as well… /56 for business, /60 for residential, both for cable internet service. The only Comcast residential offering that offers a smaller prefix is their Gigabit Pro 2Gbps active fiber service, where they give a /48.
A touch off-topic, but are there 16 subnets in a /60, where each subnet contains 254 hosts?
You're thinking IPv4.
A /60 gives you 16x /64 IPv6 subnets. So 2^64 addresses in each.
