IPv6 Roll Out

Hi @Afrigirl and @AfriNatic (or anyone with same router)

I'm having issues setting up IPv6 on a new ASUS XT12. I get issued with an IPv6 address, however it later drops out and I have to reboot the router to get allocated an address again. Please help me with settings, I have enclosed a screenshot. I am on VUMA aerial and it works with a Netgear Orbi router just the Netgear sets the settings automatically and this ASUS not. IPV6.jpeg
 
JohnDoe said:
Hi @Afrigirl and @AfriNatic (or anyone with same router)

I'm having issues setting up IPv6 on a new ASUS XT12. I get issued with an IPv6 address, however it later drops out and I have to reboot the router to get allocated an address again. Please help me with settings, I have enclosed a screenshot. I am on VUMA aerial and it works with a Netgear Orbi router just the Netgear sets the settings automatically and this ASUS not. View attachment 1588438
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Please use /60 prefix
 
Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic. My IPv6 connection keeps on dropping off after about 15 minutes or so. This requires a reboot of my router to get another IPv6 address or a long wait where anew IPv6 address pops up. My router is an Asus XT12 Zenwifi. IPv4 does not drop off. What can the issue be?
 
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JohnDoe said:
Hi @Afrigirl @AfriNatic. My IPv6 connection keeps on dropping off after about 15 minutes or so. This requires a reboot of my router to get another IPv6 address or a long wait where anew IPv6 address pops up. My router is an Asus XT12 Zenwifi. IPv4 does not drop off. What can the issue be?
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I have an ASUS RT-AC86U router, with the AsusWRT-Merlin firmware, and experience the exact same.... the IPv6 connection drops and requires a reboot of the router.... I've given up, after trying multiple times and multiple firmware upgrades. Not worth the hassle....
 
TheMannequin said:
I have an ASUS RT-AC86U router, with the AsusWRT-Merlin firmware, and experience the exact same.... the IPv6 connection drops and requires a reboot of the router.... I've given up, after trying multiple times and multiple firmware upgrades. Not worth the hassle....
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I've been down that road as well. It seems as if the IPv6 address times out after a while and is not kept alive either by the router or Afrihost. I have tried all combinations of settings and just no luck. I'm hoping @Afrigirl or @AfriNatic can assist as these routers are definitely IPv6 capable.

Perhaps a worthwhile test would be to obtain a static IPv6 address (if available on Vumatel Aerial) and see what happens.
 
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JohnDoe said:
I've been down that road as well. It seems as if the IPv6 address times out after a while and is not kept alive either by the router or Afrihost. I have tried all combinations of settings and just no luck. I'm hoping @Afrigirl or @AfriNatic can assist as these routers are definitely IPv6 capable.

Perhaps a worthwhile test would be to obtain a static IPv6 address (if available on Vumatel Aerial) and see what happens.
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Hi.
I am not seeing any IPv6 lease requests from your line, has the set-up been completed?
Do you still have the Huawei WS5200 router?
 
Afrigirl said:
Hi.
I am not seeing any IPv6 lease requests from your line, has the set-up been completed?
Do you still have the Huawei WS5200 router?
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Please check now as I rebooted the router..
I have tested this on my old Netgear Orbi and it works perfectly.
 
TheMannequin said:
I have an ASUS RT-AC86U router, with the AsusWRT-Merlin firmware, and experience the exact same.... the IPv6 connection drops and requires a reboot of the router.... I've given up, after trying multiple times and multiple firmware upgrades. Not worth the hassle....
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Update!!
With the 386.12 firmware I turned on IPv6, set the /60 prefix, and sofar (~16 hours) it has not dropped out yet....
 
atunguyd said:
Thanks but I cannot avoid having static IP's for the Wireguard "clients" - from what I have managed to read wireguard does not really follow a server/client model - each device is both a server and a client which means that the client does not request an IP from the server. So my client needs to have an IPV6 address assigned to it in the config file I setup. I can hope that my IPv6 prefix will never change and then hand craft one in the config file or I can use fd00:: adresses and NAT these but as I said that feels wrong. Currently the assuming that prefix will not change is working I just asked here to see if anything might suddenly break.
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Sooooo out of interest sake. Seems that I do not require a static ip for ipv6 on wireguard with my mikrotik.

So for ipv4 I did use a static ip that gets natted to the internet, however for ipv6, somehow, even without configuring ipv6 on the client (pixel4), as long as I assign a dynamic /64 to the wireguard peer and enable route advertisements, my pixel4 picks up an ipv6 ip address by itself. The /64 with the random address in the last bits. I know this, because I can compare the /64 subnet that is reported on a website like whatismyipaddress.com

On the router, it was simple, all you have to do is this:
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struggling to get ipv6 on pfsense. Any idea what I need to tick/untick?

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vavyn said:
struggling to get ipv6 on pfsense. Any idea what I need to tick/untick?

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Here are the settings I use on my pfSense. IPv6 is working perfectly for me on both the wan and lan. It has been a while since I set all this up, so I really can't remember what does what and what needs to change, but hopefully these screenshots will help you.
 

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I've given up on IPv6. No matter what I do, I can't get it working on my Mikrotik :) is there any benefit even?

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Legit feel like the Frogfoot VLAN I'm on, doesn't support IPv6
 
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Ok.... so that did last for a bit (since 20 Sept)....but broken again today.
Had to restart router twice to get some sites to function.... I did see the ones that were having issues did have IPv6 DNS entries.... the normal IPv4 sites did not have any problems.

On those problematic sites, if I did a manual 'ping -4' command on it, the next time I tried to load the site it would work, so something with DNS....?
TheMannequin said:
Update!!
With the 386.12 firmware I turned on IPv6, set the /60 prefix, and sofar (~16 hours) it has not dropped out yet....
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TheMannequin said:
Ok.... so that did last for a bit (since 20 Sept)....but broken again today.
Had to restart router twice to get some sites to function.... I did see the ones that were having issues did have IPv6 DNS entries.... the normal IPv4 sites did not have any problems.

On those problematic sites, if I did a manual 'ping -4' command on it, the next time I tried to load the site it would work, so something with DNS....?
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Same problem here. It appears if Afrihost is having a IPv6 issue (DNS?). Rebooted ONT and router many times to no avail. Was working perfectly until yesterday. @Afrigirl @AfriNatic please investigate and assist.
 
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