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ted_barker
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March 23, 2020
Question

IPv6 DHCP on wan1 interface not working? How to fix this?

  • March 23, 2020
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Hi,

 

I have an ISP that has a rd6 /60, but when I look at the router advertisements I see it announces a prefix /64.

 

All my client machines, MAC, Windows and Linux all work perfectly fine with the IPv6 addresses within that prefix and have 2 IP addresses (temporary and regular).

 

My goal would have been:

 

1) WAN1 interface should accept the router advertisement and assign itself (SLAAC) an IPv6 address.

 

I cannot get this to work.

 

I tried to use mode dhcp and used also some other settings, but it never accepted an IPv6 with that prefix. Rebooting after the changes also did not work.

 

If I manually assign an IPv6 address and route, IPv6 works fine. 

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

 

2) I should be able to allow other ports to use the same IPv6 prefix, but going through Fortigate.

 

The option I saw is someting like a ND proxy?

What other options are there?

 

 

 

 

    1 reply

    emnoc
    New Member
    March 23, 2020
    ted_barker
    New Member
    March 24, 2020

    Hi Ken,

     

    emnoc wrote:

    Have you looked at IPV6-Delegation?

     

    https://help.fortinet.com/fos50hlp/54/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-whats-new-54/FeatureCatalog-ipv6.htm

     

     

    Yes, but I stopped short after reading:

     

    Downstream IPv6 interfaces can receive address assignments on delegated subnets from a DHCP server that serves an upstream interface.

     

    1) My first problem is that I would like to have the WAN1 pick up the IPv6 provided by the RA.

     

    2) My ISP does use SLAAC (RA) and no DHCPv6

     

     Yes, I have had enabled the setting:

    set dhcp6-prefix-delegation enable