Prefix delegation to second router.
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I have two APU's one I use for testing and one that is live, both running 2.4. I am having a problem getting the following to work:-
ISP ( DHCP6 WAN Link Local ) <-> First Router( Allocated /56 Prefix) <-> Second Router (Allocated /64 Prefix)
Now, clients connected to the First Router work perfectly, no issues at all.
Clients connected to the second router get an address in the prefix range allocated all good.
If I get a client to ping say google on 2001:4860:4860::8888, then there is no response, looking at the traffic on Router 1, I can see the ping going out of the WAN, and the reply, but it does not get routed back to the second router.
Do I manually need to add a gateway and route for the second router on the first router or should this be happening automagically?
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You should be doing something like routing a /60 out of the /56 to the secondary router for use on local interfaces there.
This is why the original recommendation for a minimum allocation to an end user was /48 (RFC 3177, unfortunately obsoleted by RFC 6177. And even with 6177 ISPs are woefully clueless).
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You should be doing something like routing a /60 out of the /56 to the secondary router for use on local interfaces there.
This is why the original recommendation for a minimum allocation to an end user was /48 (RFC 3177, unfortunately obsoleted by RFC 6177. And even with 6177 ISPs are woefully clueless).
Thanks Derelict, so changing the 64 to 60 it should then work?
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Not necessarily.
This is how I delegate /56 prefixes downstream in the lab stack:
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I have the prefixes delegating fine.. I think.
Here's what I am getting. On the Primary Router LAN address is 2a02:xxxx:xx0:4c00:20d:b9ff:fe3e:d7cd
Windows 10 client, yes I know W10 is an awkward git 2a02:xxxx:xx0:4c00:5152:1e20:e6e2:81b6Test Router WAN interface is 2a02:xxxx:xx0:4c00:20d:b9ff:fe44:7270
Test Router LAN interface is 2a02:xxxx:xx0:4c02:20d:b9ff:fe44:7271Windows 10 client on that LAN 2a02:xxxx:xx0:4c02:7:3415:fd94:2f33
I can manually add a gateway and route to the primary router, then it works, is that the norm or am I completely wide of the mark?
edit:
Think I am getting my head around this. dhcp6c puts a /64 prefix on the LAN, which means that in my case, with a /56 prefix the last eight bits of the prefix on my LAN are always going to be 0. Any /64 prefix delegation on my LAN will be be using those eight bits, thus giving my my 256 sub nets.
The question therefore is this, should dhcpd ( or pfSense ) be adding a gateway and route to the LAN side of the primary server to route any traffic not destined for the '0' subnet to the delegated subnet? With a static WAN allocation this would not be much of an issue, but with a DHCP PD it will be. Ah, just found this after a quick search, seems someone else has fallen foul of this:
http://serverfault.com/questions/527336/prefix-delegation-and-route-creation
and that leads me onto quagga - Something else to get my head around!
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Three ways to assign IPv6 to a host:
Static
SLAAC
DHCPv6Two ways to assign IPv6 to a router:
Static
DHCPv6 with a prefix delegation.What happens on the second router's LAN and what it does with the PD is up to that router.
SLAAC and DHCPv6 do not set "default gateways" like in IPv4. They are set using router solicitations/advertisements unless statically.configured.
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Yes, i've found that out. :)
As i said, the ping goes all the way out to the wan as router 2 knows where to forward the packets to. On the reply, router 1 receives the packet but does not know to forward it to the 2nd router.
For now I've added a static route and gateway and it's working. Its not a configuration I intend to use often, but I'm playing with dibbler and needed it configured that way for testing.
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A proper PD from the first router should also create a route for that PD to the downstream router's WAN interface.
My DHCP6 server is 2.3.2_1, however. Should be 2.4 real soon now. In fact. This is as good a time as any.
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A proper PD from the first router should also create a route for that PD to the downstream router's WAN interface.
My DHCP6 server is 2.3.2_1, however. Should be 2.4 real soon now. In fact. This is as good a time as any.
Running 2.4 on both routers, not there yet or if it is, mine doesnt work!
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Haven't gotten there yet but also have not heard oany problems there so it's probably something you've done.
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@marjohn did you get to the bottom of this ?
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Nix…
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It should be noted that if router 1 gets its IPv6 prefix from your ISP via DHCPv6-PD, pfSense is not set up to subdelegate parts of that prefix to downstream routers (unless this has changed in 2.4; it doesn't work in 2.3.2).
For example… if you get a /56 or /60 from your ISP via DHCPv6-PD, you can't sub-delegate /64's to downstream routers on your network.
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I don't see why you couldn't slice out a piece of the delegated prefix for dhcpv6 downstream PD.
You would need at least one interface outside that set as track interface or the PD will not happen.
You would also have to manually change the DHCPv6 PD config if the ISP gave you a different PD.
Haven't tested though. All my DHCPv6 server PDs are from a static /48 here. (HE)
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I don't see why you couldn't slice out a piece of the delegated prefix for dhcpv6 downstream PD.
You would need at least one interface outside that set as track interface or the PD will not happen.
You would also have to manually change the DHCPv6 PD config if the ISP gave you a different PD.
Haven't tested though. All my DHCPv6 server PDs are from a static /48 here. (HE)
And indeed you can, but you'll need to manually set that route and gateway up. I've been through 2.4's code and I cannot see anywhere where DHCPD or any hooks from dhcpd will set up that route and gateway for you.
As I said, not a major issue or me anyway, and I know for a fact that the ISP's supplied routers are not capable of anything like that at present. Maybe down the road it will happen.
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Not a problem in 2.4.
Just routed a /56 to a 2.4 VM and set up /60 PDs behind it. Client is also 2.4.
Routing table:
2001:470:xxxx:7df0::/60 2001:470:xxxx:7e01::32a2 UGS 0 1500 xn0DHCPv6 leases:
2001:470:xxxx:7df0::/60
Routed To: 2001:470:xxxx:7e01::32a2 -
I take it back :)
The question is then, what I am I doing wrong that you are doing right, or maybe it just won't work were LAN IPv6 tracks the WAN interface.
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The client VM there is a default config with DHCPv6 on WAN and tracking LAN.
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So what does your prefix delegation range entry look like on the dhcp6 server and RA when you have selected /60 as the prefix delegation size?
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Routed subnet: 2001:470:xxxx:7d00::/56
Prefix delegation range:
From: 2001:470:xxxx:7d00:: To: 2001:470:xxxx:7df0::
Prefix delegation size: 60
