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Re: ISP only telling business customters about IPv6 Deployment.

I do not know of any ISP of note that supports DHCP6 …. If your ISP CSR mentioned IPV6 dhcp they probably meant —- SLAAC stands for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration … with that all you have to do is in your pfSense Ipv6 Client get the prefix delegation and you should automatically get ipv6 address. If you have subnets then you will need to find out if your ISP provides you with a subnet prefix like you tried. Som ISP’s will go with a /56 but most have not gone down that road because they have yet to train their staff properly.
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said by mozerd:

... I do not know of any ISP of note that supports DHCP6 …. If your ISP CSR mentioned IPV6 dhcp they probably meant SLACC ...

Comcast's excellent IPv6 dual stack uses SLAAC to provide a path to the router.

Then the service uses DHCP6 to provide IPv6 addresses. A /128 address and a /64 prefix by default.

A prefix up to and including a /60 can be requested via DHCP6.
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I should clarify my comment. No ISP of note currently supports providing the user with the ability to run a dhcpv6 server from the users OWN Router. All addressing is done via SLAAC.
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said by mozerd:

I do not know of any ISP of note that supports DHCP6 …. If your ISP CSR mentioned IPV6 dhcp they probably meant —- SLAAC stands for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration … with that all you have to do is in your pfSense Ipv6 Client get the prefix delegation and you should automatically get ipv6 address. If you have subnets then you will need to find out if your ISP provides you with a subnet prefix like you tried. Som ISP’s will go with a /56 but most have not gone down that road because they have yet to train their staff properly.

Changed it to SLAAC, still nothing... Attached are all of the options.

The only one that gets an IP starting with 2002: is 6to4 Tunnel, but IPv6 does not work anymore. It used to be maybe a year ago, with that caveat that eventually in time assets dont load on mobile apps (notably instagram, facebook photos / videos turn into grey squares).

I tried 6to4 and got an IP on my Windows machine, but ping ipv6.google.com gets nothing, ipv6-test fails and even pinging from pfsense itself (Putty SSH command) hangs on ipv6 addresses. It never thinks the gateway is up.

I'd rather have native ipv6 anyway than tunneling, so I'm ok leaving it off and having everything work nicely, including media on mobile apps.
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said by mozerd:

No ISP of note currently supports providing the user with the ability to run a dhcpv6 server from the users OWN Router. All addressing is done via SLAAC.

I run a DHCP6 server (and a DHCP4 server) on my home network, kea. ( »kea.isc.org/ )

I break off a subnet from the delegated IPV6 /62 prefix and use that /64 subnet for my internal network, with kea assigning IPv6 addresses to those devices that request it.

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Can you go and pick a subnet from your prefix delegation and assign it statically?
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said by mozerd:

...assign it statically ...

 

As I understand it, unless purchased otherwise, all the DHCP (IPv4 and IPv6) address for residential users from Comcast are dynamic IP addresses.

So static vs dynamic allocation is not an IPv6 thing for home networks.

What I do, however. is take the IPv6 /64 prefix and assign /128 IPv6 addresses to devices on my home network based upon that /64 prefix.

For example, I have a FreeBSD box. In the rc.conf of that box, I take the /64 prefix and fill out the remaining 64 bits. That FreeBSD box does not use DHCP or SLAAC, the IPv6 addresse and router are in the rc.conf file.

If I needed, I could also use the host reservation feature of DHCP and assign the IPv6 addresses in that manner.

Aside from that, I am not sure I understand what you mean by "assign it statically."
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