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Frontier Communications IPv6 support (wetshav.ing)

submitted 3 days ago by walden@wetshav.ing to c/networking@sh.itjust.works

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I've had Frontier fiber internet for the past 2-ish years. No complaints at all, but the nerd in me desires IPv6. I have the Frontier provided ONT device but declined their router. I have a MikroTik RB5009 which has been "searching" for an IPv6 prefix.

Anyway, I found this link during my research some time ago, and it finally looks like Frontier is enabling IPv6 for people.

I'm still not sure I'll be able to get it until I get the settings just right, but thought I'd share.

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[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your WAN shouldn't be part of your bridge. Are you getting any traffic in Wireshark? You do also need to enable packet sniffer on the router and point it to the IP of the computer you're running Wireshark on.

[–] walden@wetshav.ing 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks. Now I'm seeing lots of stuff when filter ipv6, but it all seems to be local. I replugged ether2 during the capture but nothing stands out. Lots of MDNS, ICMPv6, DHCPv6, and MNDP listed for Protocol. Source is always fe80::xxx, Destination is always ff02::...

[–] SteveTech@aussie.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah thats normal, fe80:: is link local, ff02:: is broadcast. Is the source always your router's address, or is there another addresses there? DHCPv6 and ICMPv6 (for SLAAC), are the important protocols there.