IPv6 not assigning to LAN device - ISP Hyperoptic UK

samleemc

I followed your setting above, but still no luck.

Btw, are you using the community version or the pfsense+ version?

Sam

a3sx

Iv moved to pfsense+ 22.05 and wanted to setup Hyperoptic ivp6 and have been banging me head against the wall trying to get it working. I finaly managed to get it working and maybe what i did works for you.

I followed all the guides online about how others have got Hyperoptic ipv6 working and no matter what the gateway would always show as pending. I noticed that when i setup dhcp6 on the WAN interface the ipv6 link local address was removed from the WAN interface. I added the ipv6 link local address manually to the WAN interface and magicly the gateway came online and im getting ipv6 connectivity.

Find out what the ipv6 link local is for the WAN address Status->Interfaces (i had to disabled dhcp6 on WAN and reboot for it to show up again on mine)
Setup WAN dhcp6 like the other guides online for hyperoptic
Add the link local back to WAN Firewall->Virtual IPs->Add pick "IP alias" as the type and WAN as the interface, use the link local you got earlier for the address.

Im using static ips on my LAN interface for IPV6 and havent tested if track interface works this way as well. You also wont get an IPV6 address on WAN with Hyperoptic but its easy enough to assign WAN an IPV6 address staticly using a virtual ip once you know what your IPV6 /56 is

samleemc

@a3sx

Hi, tried following your steps, but still no luck for me :( IPv6 doesn't seem to like me at all.

Can you help to have a look if I am setting it up correctly?

samleemc

it actually work magically after a reboot! Thanks!!!!!

JKnott

@samleemc

You might try changing the subnet mask to /64. A /56 is what you'd get from your ISP.

Here's one I set up here:

dongennl

Thanks for all the input; I think I'm nearly there but it is still not routing any traffic over IPv6.
I set up as above, including the virtual IP as a3sx, and finally the WAN_DHCP6 has come up and is green (it wouldn't without the virtual IP). Amazing, never worked before. I took the address from configuring 'none' on WAN ip6 and seeing the loopback address after reboot (where does this come from??) it starts fe80::

My devices on the LAN are getting IP6 addresses and I can see leases on 'DHCPv6 Leases' status screen.
My devices are getting IPv6 addresses starting with 2002:89dc... etc, could this be based on my delegated prefix? (Where do I see the prefix I got?)

Yet when I open browser and do an IPv6 test all IPv6 tests fail. If I ping 'google.com' over ipv6 on diagnostics on the webUI it fails as well.

Feels like it's close but there is still something wrong.
Pfsense+ 23.01

If somebody would be able to look at my screenshare I'd send them money for a beer in the pub!

thanks B