IPv6 Roll Out

Tinuva said:
The other option you could consider seeing as the above answer, is running a dynamic dns client for for each machine that needs to be reachable on public ipv6.

So for example, my domains are on cloudflare. You can run a cloudflare ddns client, to let it update the ipv6 ip's dns, with the proxy part disabled or enabled depending on if it is web or non-web related.

Sadly, with v6, you will run multiple ddns clients instead of a single one for v4.
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For now, it is not possible because we are linking the built-in DDNS to each service's username.
 
Afrigirl said:
For now, it is not possible because we are linking the built-in DDNS to each service's username.
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No I think you missed the point. I am not talking about the automatic ddns provided by afrihost. I am referring, to @tyrons doing this himself, on each ipv6 host he wants to run on a public ipv6 ip. To give it a dns name with a domain he has registered on cloudflare. I am sure he has the technical skills to do that himself.
 
Tinuva said:
No I think you missed the point. I am not talking about the automatic ddns provided by afrihost. I am referring, to @tyrons doing this himself, on each ipv6 host he wants to run on a public ipv6 ip. To give it a dns name with a domain he has registered on cloudflare. I am sure he has the technical skills to do that himself.
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Thanks @Tinuva , I was ecstatic to get IPv6 but it being dynamically assigned breaks the whole point of IPv6 in my opinion. This is not only an Afrihost issue mind you, and is not a deal breaker yet as i have had only good service and why I've remain with AH for near on 15 years. I just feel cheated that i was told i could get static, but now i cant (or i must go to openserve).
I may PM you Tinuva if that's okay, to discuss how you have setup your home / lab network. Seems you have already had to overcome what i am now experiencing.

As a matter of interest, i kept getting disconnected multiple time last night, my ONT would stop responding and the service and ethernet light would go off. My DHCP client session said interface not found (ONT Ethernet interface is shut when i test it). If i leave it, it comes back about every 5 - 10 minutes or so and reconnects but drops again shortly thereafter. More like a port shut due to a loop or spanning tree kicking in. This is the ONT ethernet interface connecting to my routers wan interface that becomes unavailable, not the routers wan interface. If i remove IPv6, the port stayed up.
Not sure if this issue was due to me adding 2 /64 IP pools from my assigned /62 onto my 2 of my vlans, though it ran for over a day just fine. To get it running again, i forced a new IP prefix via releasing the current IPv6 about 3 times before it remained stable. I only have one /64 pool assigned currently to one vlan, will add another later to test, too much work this morning to fiddle.

@Afrigirl Thank you for your reply. probably asked a lot, but is the option for static going to be available in the near future on Vuma Reach?
 
Abatis_ said:
Feeling kinda abandoned here, still waiting on a reply since the 3rd of June...
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Hey.

We have not had an Unifi device to test with, it is just a matter of settings on that router. Because we have Ipv6 enabled for MFN.
 
I've given up on the idea of IPv6 on Frogfoot.

Just flat out doesn't wanna work on a Mikrotik nor a TP Link Deco router.
 
grant_cpt said:
I've given up on the idea of IPv6 on Frogfoot.

Just flat out doesn't wanna work on a Mikrotik nor a TP Link Deco router.
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works just fine on Ubiquiti Amplifi and the D-Link DIR-825's but that's quite basic from a setup perspective
 
tyrons said:
Thanks @Tinuva , I was ecstatic to get IPv6 but it being dynamically assigned breaks the whole point of IPv6 in my opinion. This is not only an Afrihost issue mind you, and is not a deal breaker yet as i have had only good service and why I've remain with AH for near on 15 years. I just feel cheated that i was told i could get static, but now i cant (or i must go to openserve).
I may PM you Tinuva if that's okay, to discuss how you have setup your home / lab network. Seems you have already had to overcome what i am now experiencing.
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Sure thing. Majority of my ipv6 network can be scoped from my github repository:
Router: https://github.com/tinuva/terraform-home-net/tree/master/network/router
With some of the variables at https://github.com/tinuva/terraform-home-net/blob/master/variables.tf
The other variables have passwords and stuff in, so its not on github.

It is still a bit of a mess but working on cleaning it all up eventually...
tyrons said:
As a matter of interest, i kept getting disconnected multiple time last night, my ONT would stop responding and the service and ethernet light would go off. My DHCP client session said interface not found (ONT Ethernet interface is shut when i test it). If i leave it, it comes back about every 5 - 10 minutes or so and reconnects but drops again shortly thereafter. More like a port shut due to a loop or spanning tree kicking in. This is the ONT ethernet interface connecting to my routers wan interface that becomes unavailable, not the routers wan interface. If i remove IPv6, the port stayed up.
Not sure if this issue was due to me adding 2 /64 IP pools from my assigned /62 onto my 2 of my vlans, though it ran for over a day just fine. To get it running again, i forced a new IP prefix via releasing the current IPv6 about 3 times before it remained stable. I only have one /64 pool assigned currently to one vlan, will add another later to test, too much work this morning to fiddle.
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This would rather be a spanning tree issue. Unsure if you WAN port is part of a bridge/vlan, but if it is, you just need to carefully check the configs for it. If there really no issue, consider at least disabling STP on the WAN port only.

My ISP currently do not have IPv6 on the WAN port, its coming in over a tunnel from the ISP. That said, in my experience, with Rocketnet + Vumatel so far, its mostly static. But I am configuring everything from the point of view, it won't stay static. Hence running fd00:: internally.

I haven't done DNS on cloudflare for IPv6 hosts yet, but my plan was to use cloudflare-ddns to manage that for me. I just haven't figured exactly how I would do it, but I have an idea.
 
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blunt said:
works just fine on Ubiquiti Amplifi and the D-Link DIR-825's but that's quite basic from a setup perspective
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I think the IPv6 part is disable on my line, as the tcp dump shows outbound request for IPv6, but nothing is ever returned back.

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Quick question more out of curiosity than an issue: I have IPv6 working on a TP-Link Deco S4 system at the moment. Get IPv6 Address set to Non-Address and Assigned Type set to SLAAC+Stateless DHCP.

Thing is on a browser IPvFoo, ping and even test IPv6 all starts fine but then it just defaults back to IPv4 everywhere and fails any and all IPv6 tests. iPhone works fine, so it must be something on my windows machine that just seems to drop IPv6 after a while.

IpvFoo will pickup 1 or 2 entries on youtube as IPv6 but everything else is IPv4 whereas straight after a fresh boot it'll have everything listed as IPv6...

Any ideas? It's not causing issues, just seems weird...
 
It's been a couple of years since I last posted, but have there been any updates for Metrofibre customers running on Nokia hardware?

I still don't get an IPv6 address assigned.
 
HeXd said:
It's been a couple of years since I last posted, but have there been any updates for Metrofibre customers running on Nokia hardware?

I still don't get an IPv6 address assigned.
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Are you based in Gauteng?
 
HeXd said:
Durban
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Unfortunately, it has not been enabled yet for Nokia hardware devices.
For IPv6 to work, we need to switch our clients to PPPoE. We are working on getting that ready for our KZN clients.
 
AfriNatic said:
The Ipv6 prefix allocated is dynamic. It's linked to radius and controlled by Openserve. I did speak to the Network engineer to see what can be done to manipulate it to re allocate the same /60 on renewal. I will follow up on this for you.
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Geewiz this is an old reply. Any progress on this? I would really like a fixed prefix
 
So IPv6 DHCP on Frogfoot doesn't work for me.

Run tcpdump (packet capture) and Solicit request are made, the rest of the transaction doesn't happen.
 
Hi All,

Is NAT64 available on Afrihost, if yes what is the prefix to use?
 
Gambit said:
AFAIK, Afrihost is dual stack, curious to know how NAT64 would be useful to you.
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I am testing a V6 only network, but at the moment AH has V6 working via PPPOE with the v4 IP attached to the interface. I was able to turn off v4 / v6 separately on the wan / wan6 interfaces while using DHCP, but IPV6 is broken when using DHCP so they switched to PPPOE.AH can also reclaim some of the v4 IP(s) and allocate to customers that need them.
 
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