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Another problem is that for [[IPv6]] the AAISP gateway will currently not reply to pings on its local link address (and it is the one used for routing the traffic, so it is reachable!). So you have to manually set the monitor address to be 2001:8b0:0:81::51bb:51bb (which is the [[IPv6]] address of clueless.aa.net.uk). But even that won't initially work because even if you set apinger the routable address it will use the local link address as the source, meaning you will never get the response...
Another problem is that for [[IPv6]] the AAISP gateway will currently not reply to pings on its local link address (and it is the one used for routing the traffic, so it is reachable!). So you have to manually set the monitor address to be 2001:8b0:0:81::51bb:51bb (which is the [[IPv6]] address of clueless.aa.net.uk). But even that won't initially work because even if you set apinger the routable address it will use the local link address as the source, meaning you will never get the response...


So it is necessary to change /etc/inc/gwlb.inc with these two fixes and then it will work. These fixes have been submitted to the pfSense team but in the meantime they are described here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=69533.msg411732#msg411732
So it is necessary to change /etc/inc/gwlb.inc with these two fixes and then it will work. These fixes have been added to pfSense (See https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/pull/1098) so they will make it in a future version but in the meantime they are described here: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=69533.msg411732#msg411732


Once this is done, you will just have to go in "System->Routing" and then edit the WAN_DHCP6 gateway settings to make them as follow:
Once this is done, you will just have to go in "System->Routing" and then edit the WAN_DHCP6 gateway settings to make them as follow: