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reply to xero9

Re: IPv6 beta

Thanks so much for your help!

The strange thing is, I had TekSavvy's IPv6 set up originally, but now I can't get it to work since using HE.

I did what you said and picked PPPoE (which makes perfect sense to me). If you look at the DIR-615 Rev E simulator, you'll see in LAN IPv6 address setting, there is a 2002::: v6 IP. I tried setting that to the /64 that TekSavvy provided but it won't take. Every time it updates, it resets back to the original value.

I'm not seeing there to put the /56 address either.

Any help would be appreciated!

reply to TSI Gabe
Has anyone had any luck with IPv6 on a Mikrotik router and an MLPPP account? If so, was there anything special that needed to be done besides enabling IPv6?

I was told to continue to use the same @wiredhighspeed.com account name and password, and given my new IPv6 address assignments, but as far as I can tell the PPPoE interface isn't even getting assigned a link-local address.

I captured the packets on the modem interfaces and analyzed it with Wireshark. From what I can tell the router requests link-local address fe80::8 over IPV6CP, which the PPPoE server approves, then instead of declaring its own local identifier the server terminates the IPV6CP session. IPCP and thus IPv4 continue to work normally.

I think maybe my account isn't properly activated for IPv6, but I'm not sure.

reply to xero9
The LAN IPv6 address setting is where you should put in your /56 even though it says /64. You only need a subset of your /56. Put in a value like "2607:f2c0:f0xx:xx00::1". The ::1 on the end chooses a specific IP address within your /56.

Last question, I swear!

This is starting to make sense..

The only thing I'm confused about is when I set my router to do IPv6 over PPPoE I've discovered TekSavvy is pushing this 6to4 address to me (the 2001:: address). So I've concluded I need to use Static IP as the method. What I don't know is, how do I know what the default gateway address is? Short of guessing..

reply to TSI Gabe
Okay so an update.. I've concluded that the DIR-615 is crap, and will not work for native IPv6.

I ended up getting a DIR-655, which some other users have had. I've configured it exactly as they have, and the router is able to get an IPv6 connection going, as I can ping 2001:4860:4860::8888 for example (from the router), and my computer is assigned an IPv6 address, but the 'router' address on my computer is blank, and it's not able to access anything. Almost like the router isn't pushing a route.

Here is the setup I did:

reply to TSI Gabe
Maybe try running Stateful?

reply to TSI Gabe
Found that on the Asus RT-N16 that stock firmware didn't seem to be working 100% of the time. Most times it would require a reboot of the router every time a new client connected, also with a reboot of a computer the rebooted machine would not acquire an IPV6 address either.

On switching to a variant of Tomato 1.28 USB developed by Toastman I believe, everything seems to be working smoothly and properly. At test-ipv6.com I get 10/10 for both IPV4 & IPV6. I only had to use the /64 I was assigned though not the /56, being somewhat new to this IP concept is this proper or will it hinder anything?

reply to TSI Gabe

reply to TSI Gabe
I still haven't found a use for my /56 yet, I've just been assigning addresses within my /64 space. It seems to be working well, with manual addressing.

I'm going to venture into RADVD on my OpenWRT router soon enough.

reply to TSI Gabe
Just to report success using a Cisco E4200 router. After enabling Setup > IPv6 Setup > IPv6 Automatic, the IPv6 section of "Status" showed "PPPoE - Native IPv6 " with the IPv6 address I was assigned, IPv6 DNS etc.

Then in my linux desktop (ubuntu 12.04) I just enabled IPv6 on the wireless interface. Finally, in Firefox > about:config, I setup "network.dns.disableipv6" to false.

After this, test-ipv6.com passes the test with a 10/10 score.

I also installed the "sixOrNot" firefox extension, with which I learned that google.ca, gmail, googlemaps, wikipedia are all using dual stack and I am browsing them all using ipv6. Really painless, really cool.

I recently was assigned some ipv6 addressing, and haven't quite been able to get it to work with freebsd.

I was assigned;

IPv6 /64: 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::/64, and
IPv6 /56: 2607:f2c0:f00f:a600::/56


my current setup is fxp0 is my pppoe interface for ng0.

dc0 has been assigned 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::10
ng0 is assigned 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::1 via an ifcfg-up script.

I've set 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::1 to be the defaultrouter


ipv6_enable="YES"
ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"
ipv6_network_interfaces="dc0 ng0"
ipv6_defaultrouter="2607:f2c0:a000:11e::1"
ipv6_ifconfig_dc0="2607:f2c0:a000:11e::10 prefixlen 64"


dhcpd6 is correctly handing out addresses and all machines on my lan can ping each other via their ipv6 address except nothing can ping 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::1, except the freebsd machine itself.

Ping an external address results in

PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2607:f2c0:a000:11e::1 --> 2001:4860:4008:802::1014
ping6: sendmsg: Network is down
ping6: wrote ipv6.l.google.com 16 chars, ret=-1


After much struggling with no success I found this »www.mmacleod.ca/blog/2011/08/ipv···freebsd/ but it hasn't made things any better.
Anyone else able to get this working?

reply to TSI Gabe
I can confirm that everything works perfectly with Juniper SSG-20.

reply to TSI Gabe
How come TSI still has not v6 enabled their web-site?

reply to TSI Gabe
Hi there, I was skimming this thread and I didn't see any information on whether this is available on cable or not. Can I get in the beta on cable?

reply to TSI Gabe
I assume that the cell pipe 7130 modem/router combo does not do IPV6?

reply to Moo

thanks squircle

John