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Router - PFSense v2.1.2+: Difference between revisions

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=== Enable DHCPv6 ===
 
At this stage your PPoE WAN interface will have obtained an [[IPv6]] address from AAISP (something in the range of 2001:8b0:1111:1111::/64 but it is not visible unless you connect to the router via ssh and do an "ifconfig").
 
Your LAN network will in turn use the [[IPv6]] range you have been assigned by AAISP (remember, in [[IPv6]] there is no NAT and the like, all your devices are directly routable and this is why the [[IPv6]] range you have been given applies inside the LAN, and not outside. This is also why your PPoE interface get its address from a completely different range. It is just a "hop" to your network).
 
Now we had to use a bit of that range for the LAN address of the router itself (the 2001:8b0:XXX:YYY::1 address set previously). So whilst we are at it, let's reserve some of the address for static use (i.e. not DHCP6). The easiest is to say that all addresses in the 2001:8b0:XXX:YYY:0000:://80 range are statically assigned. This means the static range has 2^48 addresses available, which could seem a bit excessive, but who cares, with [[IPv6]] we have more addresses than atoms in the universe :-)
 
=== Fix the PPoE DNS problem ===
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