IPv6 Roll Out

AfriNatic said:
We have sent clients on Openserve the below SMS. If you have Openserve please enable Ipv6 if you are able to. If you experience any issues please let me know.


Hi there, Afrihost has enabled IPv6 service on your Fibre and we would love you to try it out! Its a simple setting change and we will be giving away 6 Months free Fibre to 10 lucky clients that enable this new service,
Please follow the link below for a step-by-step guide.
afrihost.com

How to enable a PPPoE IPv6 on the D-Link and the Huawei router | The Help Centre

Enable a PPPoE IPv6 on the D-link DIR825 and the Huawei router
afrihost.com afrihost.com
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So what does it cost if you're not one of the first ten.
 
@AfriNatic I have been on IPV6 since migrating back to Afrihost but it had to be activated with your assistance. I also got an SMS today as @hotmojo indicated above so am I correct at assuming that you are now activating people automatically, and not only on a monthly basis?

If someone acts on your sms they would expect to be connected immediately without some other intervention. Correct?
 
Gimli_ said:
@AfriNatic I have been on IPV6 since migrating back to Afrihost but it had to be activated with your assistance. I also got an SMS today as @hotmojo indicated above so am I correct at assuming that you are now activating people automatically, and not only on a monthly basis?

If someone acts on your sms they would expect to be connected immediately without some other intervention. Correct?
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We have enabled it for all Openserve accounts. Clients simply need to configure their routers.

We are working on bulk TR-069 updates to enable IPv6 but for clients that have non Afrihost routers manual configs are required.
 
Hi Afripeople,

Got the SMS - very excited.

I've been running my own linux router with rp-pppoe and pppd since I had my first DSL line and later also with my fibre line. So today I activated IPv6 on a freshly built router, but there seems to be some "issues" getting a true IPv6 address - I am getting only a link-local address. What are the Afrihost IPv6 ranges?

Tracing the IPv6 LCP packets, I get the normal IPv4 address:
(edit: some IP obfuscations in the logs below)

Code: 
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns2 0.0.0.0>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 169.nn.nn.5> <ms-dns1 169.1.1.2> <ms-dns2 169.1.1.1>]

And here's where I get the IPv6 address:

Code: 
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: sent [IPV6CP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr fe80::c5b1:nnnn:3973:16a6>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPV6CP ConfReq id=0xc3 <addr fe80::02d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPV6CP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr fe80::c5b1:nnnn:3973:16a6>]

So, with the above I can ping the peering link-local address, but of course, it's not globaly routed.
Am I missing anything?

Code: 
# ping6 -n fe80::02d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788
PING fe80::02d0:f6ff:fe0c:7788(fe80::2d0:f6ff:fe0c:7788) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.62 ms
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.35 ms
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.50 ms

# pppd --version
pppd version 2.4.9

And I use fairly standard options, including the default option to activate IPv6 (+ipv6)

--deckert
 
Mariuspay said:
Good morning.
Is this correct for TP-link?View attachment 1275976
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Hi,

This is not correct. You can disable secondary connection.

Please look for an IPv6 specific setting. For the TP-link it's not usually under the wan settings it has it's own section in the settings.

If you can share your TP-link model I could search for a guide on how to enable IPv6.
 
Deckert said:
Hi Afripeople,

Got the SMS - very excited.

I've been running my own linux router with rp-pppoe and pppd since I had my first DSL line and later also with my fibre line. So today I activated IPv6 on a freshly built router, but there seems to be some "issues" getting a true IPv6 address - I am getting only a link-local address. What are the Afrihost IPv6 ranges?

Tracing the IPv6 LCP packets, I get the normal IPv4 address:
(edit: some IP obfuscations in the logs below)

Code: 
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns2 0.0.0.0>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 169.nn.nn.5> <ms-dns1 169.1.1.2> <ms-dns2 169.1.1.1>]

And here's where I get the IPv6 address:

Code: 
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: sent [IPV6CP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr fe80::c5b1:nnnn:3973:16a6>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPV6CP ConfReq id=0xc3 <addr fe80::02d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788>]
Mar 24 01:21:21 fw-dlink pppd[30287]: rcvd [IPV6CP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr fe80::c5b1:nnnn:3973:16a6>]

So, with the above I can ping the peering link-local address, but of course, it's not globaly routed.
Am I missing anything?

Code: 
# ping6 -n fe80::02d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788
PING fe80::02d0:f6ff:fe0c:7788(fe80::2d0:f6ff:fe0c:7788) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.62 ms
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=1.35 ms
64 bytes from fe80::2d0:nnnn:fe0c:7788%ppp0: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=1.50 ms

# pppd --version
pppd version 2.4.9

And I use fairly standard options, including the default option to activate IPv6 (+ipv6)

--deckert
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Hi,

For Openserve we use a /60 prefix allocation.

Please make sure you have ask for Ipv6 via DHCPv6 with PD enabled. It will get the Ipv6 automatically.
 
AfriNatic said:
Hi,

This is not correct. You can disable secondary connection.

Please look for an IPv6 specific setting. For the TP-link it's not usually under the wan settings it has it's own section in the settings.

If you can share your TP-link model I could search for a guide on how to enable IPv6.
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Archer C2
 
Activated last night, Asus ROG GT-AX1100 - pretty much a painless process.

I see I am running on dual IP though, IPv4 and IPv6 when testing.
 
blowdart18 said:
Activated last night, Asus ROG GT-AX1100 - pretty much a painless process.

I see I am running on dual IP though, IPv4 and IPv6 when testing.
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Yes we run dual stack Ipv4/ipv6.

Most traffic will be Ipv6 and any website/server/service/network that doesn't support IPv6 will fall back to Ipv4.
 
I got the SMS last night and did it on my huawei, painless process, I didn't even have to restart the ONT or router.
Well I assume it's set up correctly, in my router page it now shows a IPV4 address as well as a IPV6 address, is this correct?

I'm a layman when it comes to anything networking so I actually have no idea what all of this means and how it will effect me, but I assume I'm not even supposed to notice any difference.
 
bigboy529 said:
I got the SMS last night and did it on my huawei, painless process, I didn't even have to restart the ONT or router.
Well I assume it's set up correctly, in my router page it now shows a IPV4 address as well as a IPV6 address, is this correct?

I'm a layman when it comes to anything networking so I actually have no idea what all of this means and how it will effect me, but I assume I'm not even supposed to notice any difference.
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Yes there should be a difference except some of your traffic will be via IPv6.

You can confirm if everything is working as expected here. https://ipv6-test.com/
 
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