IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface

[xayumi]

Hi I am calvin from hong Kong, had been using your software for quite a while years, recently, my home internet had supported IPv6, while I had facing some technical configuration issues with IPv6.

WAN -
IPv6 Configuration Type - DHCP6
Enabled - Request a IPv6 prefix/information through the IPv4 connectivity link
Enabled - Send an IPv6 prefix hint to indicate the desired prefix size for delegation
Enabled - Required by some ISPs, especially those not using PPPoE

LAN
IPv6 Configuration Type - Track Interface
Track IPv6 Interface - WAN
IPv6 Prefix ID - 0

Current situation:
WAN - Able to get a IPv6 address from ISP - 2404:c804:183a:e100::1
LAN - Auto-assigned from track interface
DHCPv6 RA - Router mode - Unmanaged - [SLAAC]
Ping to Google via WAN with IPv6 = success

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2404:c804:183a:e100::1 --> 2404:6800:4005:800::2003
16 bytes from 2404:6800:4005:800::2003, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=4.031 ms
16 bytes from 2404:6800:4005:800::2003, icmp_seq=1 hlim=55 time=3.277 ms
16 bytes from 2404:6800:4005:800::2003, icmp_seq=2 hlim=55 time=3.468 ms

--- google.com.hk ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 3.277/3.592/4.031/0.320 ms

:: ISSUE ::
Unable to ping to internet

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2404:c804:183a:e100::1:1 --> 2404:6800:4005:800::2003

--- google.com.hk ping6 statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

[JeGr]

Did you check your LAN interface via "Status/Interfaces"? Does it have a valid IPv6 address?

Why the second ping from ::1:1? That's not a valid address pfSense should have and as it doesn't differ from the WAN prefix on my first glimpse it makes no sense on LAN?

[xayumi]

Hi JeGr,

the LAN ip address was assigned by track interface from my WAN.
Usually you will assign a private range within your LAN and then do NAT for IPv6 like v4 or?

I tried to called my ISP but they have no ideas on what subnet or mask will be assigned for me and rather it can be routable.

Bests,
Calvin

[JKnott]

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

Usually you will assign a private range within your LAN and then do NAT for IPv6 like v4 or?

No, you don't use NAT on IPv6. The purpose of NAT is to get around the IPv4 address shortage.

As for your problem, we'd need a lot more info, including packet captures of what's on the WAN and LAN.

[Derelict]

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2404:c804:183a:e100::1 --> 2404:6800:4005:800::2003
16 bytes from 2404:6800:4005:800::2003, icmp_seq=0 hlim=55 time=4.031 ms

Unable to ping to internet

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2404:c804:183a:e100::1:1 --> 2404:6800:4005:800::2003

Those are sourcing from the same /64. The first thing I would try is setting the IPv6 Prefix ID on LAN to 1.

You also need to be sure you are passing IPv6 into LAN on the LAN firewall rules.

If that doesn't solve it be sure to this is checked on Interfaces > WAN: Debug Start DHCP6 client in debug mode.

Then look at the DHCP logs for information about what exactly is happening between you and the ISP.

[xayumi]

Thanks! Derelict, JKnott, i managed to solved the issues.

1. I called up ISP, they told a /64 address but single IP one and only one is assigned to me (unless i subscribe to other plan with additional $$)
2. Thus I change to DHCPv6 on WAN
3. On lan side,I use fc::/7 reserved range and do NAT

Now it is working, thanks a lot !!!

C:\Users\xxxxxxx>tracert -d google.com.hk

Tracing route to google.com.hk [2404:6800:4005:806::2003]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms fc::1
2 16 ms 1 ms 3 ms 2404:c800:8101:418::1
3 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms 2404:c800:8102:1935::21
4 3 ms 2 ms 2 ms 2404:c800:8002:1e::1
5 2 ms 3 ms 4 ms 2400:8800:1f0f:4::1
6 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 2001:4860:1:1::1ed
7 2 ms 4 ms 2 ms 2001:4860:1:1::1ec
8 10 ms 4 ms 4 ms 2001:4860:0:e07::1
9 3 ms 13 ms 4 ms 2001:4860:0:1::1ec7
10 3 ms 4 ms 2 ms 2404:6800:4005:806::2003

Trace complete.

C:\Users\xxxxxxx>ping -6 google.com.hk

Pinging google.com.hk [2404:6800:4005:806::2003] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 2404:6800:4005:806::2003: time=2ms
Reply from 2404:6800:4005:806::2003: time=3ms
Reply from 2404:6800:4005:806::2003: time=12ms
Reply from 2404:6800:4005:806::2003: time=6ms

Ping statistics for 2404:6800:4005:806::2003:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 5ms

[Derelict]

That is really sad.

[Gertjan]

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

I called up ISP, they told a /64 address but single IP one and only one is assigned to me (unless i subscribe to other plan with additional $$)

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[xayumi]

Yes it works now, but any ideas for how to enable Privacy Extensions (RFC 4941) for SLAAC/DHCPv6 on WAN?

Since I am using virtual router, i don't wanna expose my mac address or mac vendor, thanks!

[Gertjan]

I'm trying to stay away from SLAAC.
I received a routable /64 from he.net, setup the DHCP6 on my LAN's, and stopped looking at it.

[Derelict]

@xayumi Not really.

IPv6 in pfSense is designed to be used properly.

What you (Or actually, your ISP) is doing is pretty much nonsense.

[JKnott]

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

I called up ISP, they told a /64 address but single IP one and only one is assigned to me (unless i subscribe to other plan with additional $$)

They only give you 1 IPv6 address???? I get a /64 on my cell phone and a /56 at home. Unbelievable!!!

Yes it works now, but any ideas for how to enable Privacy Extensions (RFC 4941) for SLAAC/DHCPv6 on WAN?

You can't do it with only 1 address. With privacy extensions, You'll wind up with 8 addresses after a week.

[xayumi]

@gertjan said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

I received a routable /64 from he.net, setup the DHCP6 on my LAN's, and stopped looking at it.

That's nice, do you need to run any routing protocol on your WAN or you'd just enable WAN with DHCPv6?

Thanks !!

[xayumi]

@jknott said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

I called up ISP, they told a /64 address but single IP one and only one is assigned to me (unless i subscribe to other plan with additional $$)

They only give you 1 IPv6 address???? I get a /64 on my cell phone and a /56 at home. Unbelievable!!!

Yes it works now, but any ideas for how to enable Privacy Extensions (RFC 4941) for SLAAC/DHCPv6 on WAN?

You can't do it with only 1 address. With privacy extensions, You'll wind up with 8 addresses after a week.

Hi JKnottt, yes they give me /64 for my home, and I was unable to create subnet or whatever within my LAN, currently I am using IPv6 NAT like v4 do for my pfsense... @@!!

Oh got ya ... maybe I will try to generate a random mac address on my VM's wan to hide this info then if it's not possible to do a quick setting in pfsense :)

[Derelict]

If they are assigning a /64 to your WAN you cannot use it on LAN.

If they are assigning an IPv6 address on WAN and ROUTING a /64 to that you can use that /64 on LAN.

This is not a pfSense problem. It is an ISP problem.

[xayumi]

@derelict

Hi yes, I understand, they just assigned me a ipv6 address with mark /64 on my WAN, instead of a ipv6 and /64 subnet to me.

I am new to IPv6 just really does spent some hours to figure it out!
Thanks for your help! NAT for IPv6 is current a solution for me :)

[JKnott]

@xayumi said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

@derelict

Hi yes, I understand, they just assigned me a ipv6 address with mark /64 on my WAN, instead of a ipv6 and /64 subnet to me.

I am new to IPv6 just really does spent some hours to figure it out!
Thanks for your help! NAT for IPv6 is current a solution for me :)

One thing a lot of people have to figure out is the WAN address is not used for routing. It's a /128, which means it's to identify an interface only. It cannot be used to communicate with another device, without going through a router (pfSense). On IPv6, link local addresses are normally used for routing. Link local addresses start with fe80.

[xayumi]

@JKnott yes, JKnott, thanks a lot !!!

@Derelict
Thanks for your tips !!!
Between recently I have enabled the OpenVPN with IPv6 (another subnet) fc01::1/64 and found that the fc::1/64 on LAN side those computers then now unable to route through pfSense but fine via VPN, which is quite strange, both subnet are in NAT rules and policy had enable IPv6

Attached is the configuration which i made changes on VPN side, I look through the log but had no ideas yet why the LAN is not able to goes through IPv6 suddenly after enable IPv6 VPN.

Below is my configuration for OpenVPN for IPv6.

OpenVPN Setting

Network Policy

NAT

End up in routing issues on LAN IPv6 - With OpenVPN clients, able to run both IPv4 and v6 internet access, but LAN side are not working after enable OpenVPN IPv6 setting.

[Derelict]

Glad it's working.

Note: Even though the ULA space is assigned as fc00::/7, only fd00::/8 should be used. And specifically in /48 prefixes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address#Definition

[xayumi]

@Derelict
Great, let me try re-addressing those! and see :)

[JKnott]

@Derelict said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

Glad it's working.

Note: Even though the ULA space is assigned as fc00::/7, only fd00::/8 should be used. And specifically in /48 prefixes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address#Definition

I thought fd00 was for when you picked your own prefix and fc00 was when you got it from some central server. The idea for the server was to avoid the possibility of a collsion, though it would be hard to collide, when you can choose a random number with 32 bits. I created my prefix by using the command "ps aux|md5sum" on a Linux box and taking enough of it to fill out the prefix.

[xayumi]

@Derelict Thanks! I do the re-addressing,

with OpenVPN as fd00::2:0:0:0:0:1/64
With LAN as fd00:0:1::/48, and DHCPv6 with allow PD on fd00:0:1:ffff::/64

Now all works finally like a Cham !! Cheers !!

@JKnott Thanks for your tips too !!

[Derelict]

OK. That is not right either, unfortunately.

You should ALWAYS set an interface network to /64. Always.

You should generate 40 random bits and append them to fd so you have `fd(forty-random-bits)::/48 to use at THAT SITE.

There are 65536 /64 networks to use out of that prefix, 256 /56 prefixes.

For instance, generate a random prefix using a site such as this:

https://cd34.com/rfc4193/

Plug in any MAC address from your network (pretty much guaranteed to be globally-unique) and get the result. That is your /48.

I got this:

Your Private IPv6 network is:
fda9:e2c2:07be::/48

giving you access to the to the following /64s:
fda9:e2c2:07be:0::/64 through fda9:e2c2:07be:ffff::/64

This page uses the first method suggested by IETF using the current
timestamp plus the mac address, sha1 hashed, and the lower 40 bits to
generate your random ULA. Consequently, if two organizations hit this page
within the same second, with the same mac address to generate a ULA, they
could have identical ULAs.

So you use address bits 49-63 from 0 to ffff as the subnet identifier to place on interfaces.

[JKnott]

@Derelict said in IPv6 unable to access internet on LAN interface:

You should ALWAYS set an interface network to /64. Always.

I read some discussion a while ago, about how that doesn't apply to point to point links, where a /126 or /127 should be used, for security reasons. However, it certainly applies on LANs so that SLAAC can work properly.

[Derelict]

We're not talking about point-to-point links, bro.

I don't have time to make every forum response cover every possible caveat.