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[guest3]

I'm on static ipv4 and my ipv6 IS static!...
No issues on opnsense.
/56 and tick for request prefix is all I needed. Been up for over a week with no change or drop with prefix.

[Mark07]

You can definitely get ipv6 if you have a static ipv4 (99% of the country), if you're using the provided router you don't need to do anything for it to work.

[chriskross]

OK YF have now confirmed in chat that IPv6 has been enabled. But none of the checkers I've tried are detecting it. I have IPv6 enabled on the app, but it only shows IPv4 addresses. I switched v6 off and on in the app, and (at the suggestion of the online help) rebooted the ONT. No change.

[Mark07]

OK YF have now confirmed in chat that IPv6 has been enabled. But none of the checkers I've tried are detecting it. I have IPv6 enabled on the app, but it only shows IPv4 addresses. I switched v6 off and on in the app, and (at the suggestion of the online help) rebooted the ONT. No change.

Is this on the eero app?

[chriskross]

Is this on the eero app?

Yes. I've also used several sites like WhatIsMyIP to check and they show 'undetected'.

[chriskross]

Spoke to support and they said lack of IPv6 was due to me using custom DNS, so set it back to default. No change.

Raised to Tier 2 tech support.

[Mark07]

Spoke to support and they said lack of IPv6 was due to me using custom DNS, so set it back to default. No change.

Raised to Tier 2 tech support.

Doesn't sound right, drop me a PM if you don't get anywhere with them!

[Alex Atkin UK]

Yeah that's an odd thing to say given you could have IPv6 with no DNS.

DNS over IPv4 will still bring up AAAA IPv6 records too, they just wont be used if you aren't on an IPv6 network.

[chriskross]

Well this is odd. I've had nothing further from YF, so I thought I'd try my Fritz Box 7530 (which had been happily working with IPv6 from AAISP for years). It took a while, but I got it to connect and it clearly shows my IPv6 addresses. However, the various checkers I use still say v6 undetected.

As a further complication, I went back the eero, and now I can't get that to work. ONT shows normal LEDs, but the eero blinks white for ages before turning red. Both ONT and eero have had several reboots.

Currently working happily using the Fritz Box (which has always been my preferred option), but confused about the lack of IPv6 visibility.

[guest3]

Spoof the fritz box mac address onto the eero if it allows it and that should work. Alternatively switch off the ont for 30mins as I'm told it should kill the session....

[chriskross]

As a further complication, I went back the eero, and now I can't get that to work. ONT shows normal LEDs, but the eero blinks white for ages before turning red. Both ONT and eero have had several reboots.

Update: I had to go to chat for support. In the end they made me use a tiny reset button on the bottom of the eero that I was unaware of, and my connection has been fine,

Still awaiting a tech response on why IPv6 isn't being detected. When I was using the Fritz I set up a TBB monitor using the v6 address the Fritz said I was and I got a satisfactory graph of pings until I switched back the eero, but I suppose that's because it would use a different v6 address?

[displaced]

Oooh, so IPv6 with a static v4 should now be working?!

When I first activated a static v4, I lost v6 connectivity, so disabled it on my OPNsense router.

I'll have to give it another go.  I'll dig out the YF-provided eero to make sure v6 is active, then configure my OPNsense box appropriately.

[guest3]

Depends on the exchange if its been rolled out. I have tried a couple of builds of opnsense but it keeps losing the prefix at random intervals. Since upgrading to 2gb I installed pfsense just to see.. no issues with ipv6 at all. Picked it up first time and no loss for over a week of ipv6... I had no issues with ipv4 on opnsense but ipv6 was a right pain.

[displaced]

Right… well, I had ipv6 working fine before requesting a static v4.

I’ve just re-enabled v6 and now at least my router appears to be talking to a dhcp6 server — so that’s new!  It didn’t get any reply at all after I initially went static v4.

However, the v6 client gives up with:

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advertise contains no address/prefix
Will have another tinker tomorrow!

[guest3]

I saw this repeatedly on opnsense hence going back to pfsense which is currently working just fine for ipv6.

It would just randomly lose it when it did work.