IPV6 Disable on LAN
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I was running PFsense on VMware esxi 7 and it was running great with no problems, but decided to switch to bare metal instead and i screenshot all my settings just to be sure. And after re-installing, i have a few problems and i'm hoping to get some help here. Thanks in advance!
How do i turn off IPV6 on my LAN? I noticed it was assigning IPV 6 address to my Mac Mini, Ipad's, Synology NAS and etc. Also there are 2 different IPV 6 address with the same Mac address on my MAC MINI.
In the settings i made sure IPV 6 is disabled
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@kp206 said in IPV6 Disable on LAN:
How do i turn off IPV6 on my LAN? I noticed it was assigning IPV 6 address to my Mac Mini, Ipad's, Synology NAS and etc. Also there are 2 different IPV 6 address with the same Mac address on my MAC MINI.
When you see these "fe80:" these are auto assigned, and have only a local LAN scope.
Even if pfSense isn't playing the IPv6 game, all these devices, like your NAS, PC, MAC etc, prefer to use IPv6 among them.
Just a pity that your pfSense doesn't want to play along.You can enforce the no-IPv6 idea with
so all LAN based device will find out that there is no IPv6 gateway to go 'elsewhere'.
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@kp206 said in IPV6 Disable on LAN:
How do i turn off IPV6 on my LAN? I noticed it was assigning IPV 6 address to my Mac Mini, Ipad's, Synology NAS and etc. Also there are 2 different IPV 6 address with the same Mac address on my MAC MINI.
Normal behaviour. Typically a client has 3 addresses when you use IPv6. One is its own fe80 (already described), another is its own fixed globally routable address, tied to the device, plus a third 'privacy' address. Again, globally routable but drops its direct association with the client and is randomised.
Someone has to say it (so I guess I am 'that guy' on this thread) but you really should be embracing IPv6. It is quite refreshing compared the handcuffs of IPv4 and the handicap of NAT. I think my IPv4 WAN traffic is down to ~30% these days. So come on in - the water is lovely.
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Those fe80 addresses are called link local. Every IPv6 capable device gets them and that has nothing to do with pfSense.
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@robbiett said in IPV6 Disable on LAN:
Someone has to say it (so I guess I am 'that guy' on this thread) but you really should be embracing IPv6. It is quite refreshing compared the handcuffs of IPv4 and the handicap of NAT. I think my IPv4 WAN traffic is down to ~30% these days. So come on in - the water is lovely.
Quite so. I've been running IPv6 for 13 years. It restores proper function to the 'net, where each device gets it's own address.
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@robbiett said in IPV6 Disable on LAN:
(so I guess I am 'that guy' on this thread)
#metoo.
IPv6 works fine with pfSense for years now.A show stopper can be : the ISP. Some of them stopped reading de RFCs in 2001.
And the one between the keyboard and chair. -
@gertjan thank you it worked!
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@robbiett Great information. I will definitely look into this, as i am still new to all this.
