IPv6 Roll Out

Did anyone with a TP Link Archer C6 Router manage to setup IPv6 yet?

My internet connection keeps dropping if I enable it.
 
Gimli said:
Or, use another competent firewall/router e.g. pfsense, and use the AX3 as an access point only.

Has anyone got experience with Huawei AX3 in access point mode behind your own router?
- can you still mesh them if you have more than one (without wired backhaul to remote ap's)
- can you create more than one wifi network and assign each to a different VLAN?
- anything else to take note of?

Thanks
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If you put the Huawei in extender mode it's like passthrough mode which will allow your main router to do everything.
 
AfriNatic said:
If you put the Huawei in extender mode it's like passthrough mode which will allow your main router to do everything.
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Thanks for the feedback.

If I may ask. If you say your router would do everything do you mean:
- control which wifi names are created (i doubt)
- can you somehow assign each different wifi (ex. guest and home) to a different vlan from your main router? Surely this will need to be setup in the ax3 somewhere
- will the huawei still do the meshing (e.g. if you have one main ax3 accesspoint connected to the router by ethernet, and two remote access points)

Thanks
 
Gimli said:
Thanks for the feedback.

If I may ask. If you say your router would do everything do you mean:
- control which wifi names are created (i doubt)
- can you somehow assign each different wifi (ex. guest and home) to a different vlan from your main router? Surely this will need to be setup in the ax3 somewhere
- will the huawei still do the meshing (e.g. if you have one main ax3 accesspoint connected to the router by ethernet, and two remote access points)

Thanks
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Morning,

The AX3 is very basic so when I said when I meant everything I was talking about the basic stuff like prefix delegation, meshing with other Huawei routers etc.

When it comes to vlans you won't find those type of features on entry level routers and likely only get them on Mikrotik routers.
 
AfriNatic said:
Morning,

The AX3 is very basic so when I said when I meant everything I was talking about the basic stuff like prefix delegation, meshing with other Huawei routers etc.

When it comes to vlans you won't find those type of features on entry level routers and likely only get them on Mikrotik routers.
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Ubiquiti routers like the UDM Pro or Edgerouter do vlans and IPv6 very well as well. Mikrotik is the best though, but vastly more difficult to setup if you don't know what you're doing.

By the way @AfriNatic, any word yet on when Airmobile data sims running on MTN will be getting IPv6? It seems like the mobile providers are lagging behind when it comes to IPv6 rollout.
 
deweyzeph said:
Ubiquiti routers like the UDM Pro or Edgerouter do vlans and IPv6 very well as well. Mikrotik is the best though, but vastly more difficult to setup if you don't know what you're doing.

By the way @AfriNatic, any word yet on when Airmobile data sims running on MTN will be getting IPv6? It seems like the mobile providers are lagging behind when it comes to IPv6 rollout.
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Dont think IPv6 is gonna be around for some time when it comes to MTN etc...
 
deweyzeph said:
What I don't understand is why ISP's aren't handing out static IPv6 prefixes to clients instead of dynamic ones as a matter of course. There is so much address space to go around in the prefix, that an ISP could give out a static prefix to each and every client and never run out of address space.
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Gimli said:
If they give you a /60 prefix as an example it should be sufficient for home use. Question is why does the prefix change sometimes. I believe @websquad will give you a static one if requested. Not sure about @AfriNatic
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This has been coming up quite a lot recently and I'm having a chat to our net engineers about it.

The issue is not how much address space there is but rather getting it going to work exactly as expected without any issues and we aren't there yet. There are many variables in the equation. We have many FNO's that have different network topology so rolling out something like this is not an easy task.

If you compare it to the US for example where they have carriers which are the ISP and then FNO in one it's easier for them to implement changes across the board where with us in SA as an ISP not as much.

Static prefixes for IPv6 is something we are exploring but it's far away still.
 
AfriNatic said:
This has been coming up quite a lot recently and I'm having a chat to our net engineers about it.

The issue is not how much address space there is but rather getting it going to work exactly as expected without any issues and we aren't there yet. There are many variables in the equation. We have many FNO's that have different network topology so rolling out something like this is not an easy task.

If you compare it to the US for example where they have carriers which are the ISP and then FNO in one it's easier for them to implement changes across the board where with us in SA as an ISP not as much.

Static prefixes for IPv6 is something we are exploring but it's far away still.
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Thanks for the reply, so a dynDNS type service will still be required I guess.

Will Afrihost support that dynDNS per PPOE connection on IPV6 as they do per IPV4?

Thanks
 
Gimli said:
Thanks for the reply, so a dynDNS type service will still be required I guess.

Will Afrihost support that dynDNS per PPOE connection on IPV6 as they do per IPV4?

Thanks
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DynDNS really has nothing to do with the ISP. It's just simply an application that updates a domain name with your current IP address. Your ISP plays no part in it. The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 though, is that with IPv4 only your router has a public IP address, whereas with IPv6 every device on your network has a publicly routable IP address, so you'll need to be more careful with IPv6 about which IPv6 address you'll want to associate with the domain name.
 
AfriNatic said:
This has been coming up quite a lot recently and I'm having a chat to our net engineers about it.

The issue is not how much address space there is but rather getting it going to work exactly as expected without any issues and we aren't there yet. There are many variables in the equation. We have many FNO's that have different network topology so rolling out something like this is not an easy task.

If you compare it to the US for example where they have carriers which are the ISP and then FNO in one it's easier for them to implement changes across the board where with us in SA as an ISP not as much.

Static prefixes for IPv6 is something we are exploring but it's far away still.
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Thanks for the update, looking forward to see what you guys come up with. I've noticed with Openserve fibre that my IPv6 prefixes change every time my PPPOE session reconnects, regardless of whether or not 30 days has elapsed or not.
 
deweyzeph said:
Thanks for the update, looking forward to see what you guys come up with. I've noticed with Openserve fibre that my IPv6 prefixes change every time my PPPOE session reconnects, regardless of whether or not 30 days has elapsed or not.
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Yes it's a challenge currently with Openserve. When we switch to L2TP it should give us a bit more control.
 
Gimli said:
Thanks for the reply, so a dynDNS type service will still be required I guess.

Will Afrihost support that dynDNS per PPOE connection on IPV6 as they do per IPV4?

Thanks
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Since each device will get a public IPv6 IP this won't be possible right now.
 
deweyzeph said:
DynDNS really has nothing to do with the ISP. It's just simply an application that updates a domain name with your current IP address. Your ISP plays no part in it. The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 though, is that with IPv4 only your router has a public IP address, whereas with IPv6 every device on your network has a publicly routable IP address, so you'll need to be more careful with IPv6 about which IPv6 address you'll want to associate with the domain name.
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We do offer network side DDNS.

Each fibre account has a unique @afrihost.co.za fibre username. If your username is [email protected] for example we offer a free DDNS on afrinaticb6.ip.afrihost.co.za which will translate to the IP you currently have.

No need to use an external DDNS provider.
 
deweyzeph said:
Oh cool, that's handy!
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Pleasure to be of service @deweyzeph
DynDNS really has nothing to do with the ISP. It's just simply an application that updates a domain name with your current IP address. Your ISP plays no part in it.​
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With regards to IPV6; you can setup a dyndns service on each machine that needs to announce it's IP using a different sub-domain e.g.

- subdomain1.example.com - specific IPv6 address of machine1.
- subdomain2.example.com - specific IPv6 address of machine2.

You would still need to configure your firewall to open ports for external traffic to this machine. So no problems there, the security situation is the same as with IPV4.

It does seem that the IPV4 DynDNS provided by @Afrihost will not work as-is for IPv6. They would have to enhance it in such a way that it is a proper configurable dynDNS provider with additional subdomains on your afrinaticb6.ip.afrihost.co.za domain name:
example:
- email.afrinaticb6.ip.afrihost.co.za - my email server ipv6 address
- ha.afrinaticb6.ip.afrihost.co.za - my homeassistant ipv6 address
- minecraft.afrinaticb6.ip.afrihost.co.za - my minecraft ipv6 address

DynDNS is always just a workaround for static
 
AfriNatic said:
If you compare it to the US for example where they have carriers which are the ISP and then FNO in one it's easier for them to implement changes across the board where with us in SA as an ISP not as much.
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Not so sure you can generalize like this.

I watched a youtube video last night where the guy got fiber and he had to choose between 20+ different ISP's, just like here.

Regards

time: 5:06
 
Hi
I have noticed with IPv6 I get assigned the prefix and everything but I can't send any IPv6 traffic.
From the router even tracing to google's ipv6 shows timeout's for each hop.

Code: 
>traceroute 2c0f:fb50:4002:800::2004
Columns: LOSS, SENT, LAST
#  LOSS  SENT  LAST   
1  100%     4  timeout
2  100%     4  timeout
3  100%     4  timeout
4  100%     3  timeout
5  100%     3  timeout
 
francoistk said:
Hi
I have noticed with IPv6 I get assigned the prefix and everything but I can't send any IPv6 traffic.
From the router even tracing to google's ipv6 shows timeout's for each hop.

Code: 
>traceroute 2c0f:fb50:4002:800::2004
Columns: LOSS, SENT, LAST
#  LOSS  SENT  LAST  
1  100%     4  timeout
2  100%     4  timeout
3  100%     4  timeout
4  100%     3  timeout
5  100%     3  timeout
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Hi,

Which FNO are you using?
 
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