Problem with updating packages over ipv6?
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Package updates take forever to work (if at all) over ipv6 on a SG-4860. When I disable ipv6, everything works quickly. I have AT&T fiber which seems to have a spotty ipv6 implementation but everything else I do seems to be working correctly over ipv6.
I'm torn on whether to get rid of ipv6 altogether or figure out someway to make the router not obtain an ipv6 address for itself - maybe WAN -> check Only request an ipv6 prefix, do not request an ipv6 address?. I seem to recall that this resulted in the LAN clients getting ipv6 except for the LAN side of the router itself.
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You can set 'Prefer IPv4' in System > Advanced > Networking:
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/config/advanced-networking.html#prefer-ipv4-over-ipv6
Steve
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Thanks @stephenw10, this works! I can't figure out why ipv6 works great from everything on the LAN but not locally on the router. I'm doing the netgraph att bypass so may be related to that.
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Does your WAN interface have an IPv6 address?
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@jknott said in Problem with updating packages over ipv6?:
Does your WAN interface have an IPv6 address?
Yes it gets a 2001:506:* address. LAN gets 2600:1700:* address.
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@stephenw10 Figured this out - I hadn't selected "Request only an IPv6 prefix" and was being assigned a 2001:***/128 WAN IPv6. When I select this option, WAN now gets only an ipv6 link-local address and everything works.