I noticed by accident that in my home network IPv6 is not functional, so I decided to fix that, and started studying about IPv6.
I have an opnSense firewall which connect to my ISP port as WAN, and then the LAN. The point is that o do not get a GUA on my WAN, but I get it if I connect directly a pc to the ISP port…
The opnSense seems to be configured properly, and the ISP itself do provide IPv6 as I can get a GUA address when I connect my Linux laptop to the ISP router, so I am not sure…
Anybody has any hints?
Is it a subnet level address or only a single interface level address. Many ISPs, in the US at least, don’t supply a block of addresses, just one. If you’re only getting a single IP address or it’s using 6rd (like my ISP) or similar really old, transitional technologies, then you won’t be able to assign a unique GUA to your LAN (separate from the WAN address) and so you’ll need additional routing configuration like NAT to properly route to locally defined IPv6 addresses.
Personally, I gave up on trying to get things to work with 6rd since NAT is way easier on IPv4 since it was never intended to be necessary on IPv6. But ISPs are just cheap, lazy, or actively trying to make self-hosting on residential plans more difficult in order to drive people to business plans and prevent businesses from using cheaper residential plans by keeping IP addresses dynamic and thus complicating DNS.
If you are getting a subnet of addresses, then ensure that configuration on the LAN side is set up properly https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/ipv6.html
How do I find out if the ISP is handling me a single address or a /64 or whatever?
shot in the dark, because I’ve made that mistake before, if you got dyndns setup, it needs to be from the server not the router for ipv6 to work.
Mm no, not using dyndns. I am missing IPv6 support on the LAN side… But I have it on the wan side
Are you using a VPN? A lot of the VPN vendors disallow IPV6.
Nope, no vpn




