[TriLUG] IPv6 and OpenWRT

[Steven Tardy via TriLUG]

Fe80 is link local addressing which means either your PC isn't asking for IPv6 properly or your WRT isn't handing out IPv6 properly.

I spent many an hour trying to get IPv6 working at home before trying pfsense on a VM which "just worked".



> On Jul 14, 2015, at 8:15 PM, Sean Alexandre via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> 
> I just upgraded my OpenWRT router and now see an IPv6 address from Time Warner!
> 
> The OpenWRT default configuration is working, and some of my traffic is using IPv6 addresses. I want to customize things now, but have some questions.
> 
> The address I get from Time Warner is 2606:a000:bfc0:93:8d5f:e813:42a6:283b/128
> 
> The LAN has these address ranges:
> IPv4: 10.88.89.1/24
> IPv6: 2606:A000:1115:C4A7::1/64, FD37:DE43:7DF9::1/60
> 
> One of the machines on my LAN (moose) has this address:
> IPv4: 10.88.89.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> IPv6: fe80::feaa:14ff:ac72:c159/64 Scope:Link
> 
> My first question is why is the address for moose an address range ("/64")?  I would expect an address that ends in /128 instead of /64.
> 
> Also, why isn't moose's address in one of the address ranges listed for the LAN?  I would expect it to have an address that starts with 2606:A000 or FD37:DE43.
> 
> And also, what should I be looking for in the config settings to give moose its own Internet address, so it's not NAT'd. It looks like Time Warner's given me 2606:A000:1115:C4A7::1/64 and so I should be able to give moose an address such as 2606:A000:1115:C4A7::2/128.
> 
> Thanks for any help!