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Aspirant

May 19, 2020

Stop router from overriding /etc/dhcp6c.conf

It's well documented that the Netgear really suck at IPv6. I need it to work from home as we need to test IPv6 related apps. I bought this latest greatest router thinking it'll work out of the box. A...

barfoo

Aspirant

May 19, 2020

You are correct. We are on brwan and eth0 on the Orbi.

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love the Orbi but it's frusrating that the firmware is so limited with IPv6. Searching these forums and Google really give you the level of frustration people have with the lack of support for IPv6.

Thanks for the firmware suggestion. It's unfortunate but I'm going to have to give a 3rd party firmware a try.

CrimpOn

Guru - Experienced User

May 19, 2020

barfoo wrote:
You are correct. We are on brwan and eth0 on the Orbi.

So, I'm "not getting it." What exactly has to be changed in the Orbi conf file to make IPv6 work correctly? i.e. change "brwan" to "wanifname"?

Oh, I keep forgetting. I am on Spectrum which probably does IPv6 differently than your ISP.

barfoo

Aspirant

May 19, 2020

interface brwan {
      send ia-pd 11;
      request domain-name;
      request domain-name-servers;
      request ntp-servers;
      request sip-server-domain-name;
      request sip-server-address;
      script "/etc/net6conf/dhcp6c-script";
};

id-assoc na 1 {
};

id-assoc pd 11 {
};

Removed send na 1;

or flip the order around
send ia-pd 11;

send na 1;

I ended up removing it.