IPv6

Why don’t my hosts get IPv6 routes?

I started this off as a post on FreeBSD Forums, but as I composed it, I decided it was better as a blog post. This post is most likely not useful to anyone. I solved the problem by rebooting the gateway. I never did find out the cause of the routing issue. Astute readers will recognized the IP4 and IPv6 addresses in this post – they are taken from RFCs which designate ranges […]

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When my home DHCP address changes, I want stuff done

I recently moved from an appliance to a FreeBSD 14.2 gateway. In this post: FreeBSD 14.2 gw01 gw01 photos These are the main things I need done when my IP address changes: restart OpenVPN restart my Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnel with the new IP address – written Tell HE.net about my IP address change – written Notify OpenDNS.com about my IP address change Update a dynamic DNS entry so my VPN clients can

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Adding IPv6 to an existing server

I am adding IPv6 addresses to each of my servers. This post assumes the server is up and running FreeBSD 11.1 and you already have an IPv6 address block. This does not cover the creation of an IPv6 tunnel, such as that provided by HE.net. This assumes native IPv6. In this post, I am using the IPv6 addresses from the IPv6 Address Prefix Reserved for Documentation (i.e. 2001:DB8::/32). You should use your own

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