Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2018 13:00 Post subject: Router IPv6 Address
I have IPv6 setup through a 6in4 Static Tunnel (via Hurrincane Electric), and it's all working except for 1 setting that I am unsure about.
The setting is "Router IPv6 Address". I assumed this would be the routers IPv6 address on the LAN side. However, I am unable to ping the address when I put one here. I am using the Assigned/Routed prefix with a 1 on the end for example
2001:470:1f09:7777::1
where 2001:470:1f09:7777:: is an example Assigned/Routed prefix
I can, however, ping the router via the WAN IPv6 address and I can also ping my Windows machine from the WAN side. So I don't think ist a firewall issue, but I maybe wrong.
What is the purpose of the "Router IPv6 Address" and why can't I ping it when I have set it?
I was originally using radvd and I then decided to switch to dnsmasq for ipv6 address allocation etc, using the constructor:br0. In doing so I discovered that br0 did not have any ipv6 address associated with it, and I believe that is the address I was referring to in the original post.
So I fixed this by adding this to the startup script
Quote:
IPV6_ADDR=`nvram get ipv6_addr`
ip -6 addr add ${IPV6_ADDR} dev br0
Now I can ping the local ipv6 address and dnsmasq works using the br0 address as the local constructor.