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Router - PFSense v2.1.2+: Difference between revisions

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Once there, ensure that the [[IPv6 Configuration|IPv6 configuration]] type is set to "Static [[IPv6]]".
 
AAISP will have given you an [[IPv6]] prefix, i.e. something like: 2001:8b0:XXXXXXX:YYYYYYY::/64
 
Use one address of that prefix and assign as the [[IPv6]] address of the LAN port. This address will have to be outside of the range you will allocate to DHCP6 for the LAN side. A suggestion could be something like:
 
<code>2001:8b0:XXXXXXX:YYYYYYY::1</code>
 
Then update the bitmask to match your [[IPv6]] assignment (typically 64, but could be 48 if you are trying to route your full allocation).
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:XXXXXXX:YYYYYYY::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:XXXXXXX:YYYYYYY: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 :-)
 
We can then assign the rest of your block to DHCPv6 (although it could be an idea to restrict the range if you later want to create fancy subnets with their own router in your LAN). So the following range will be given to DHCPv6:
 
2001:8b0:XXXX:YYYY::1:0000 to 2001:8b0:XXXX:YYYY:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff
 
=== Fix the PPoE DNS problem ===
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