Benjamin Reich

EdgeRouter resolving local IPv6 addresses

Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:14:59 +0200

The following blogpost will help you to configure the EdgeRouter DHCPv6 server (dnsmasq) to resolve IPv6 and IPv4 addresses.

You can configure Dnsmasq with the the ra-nmes option to solve this issue.

The following config example may help you to configure it.

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configure
set service dhcp-server use-dnsmasq enable 
set service dns forwarding options 'dhcp-range=::,constructor:switch0,ra-names'
commit; save; exit

sudo service dnsmasq restart

Note: Maybe you have to change the interface behind constructor.

Edgerouter IPv6

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 11:11:50 +0100

The following blogpost will help you to set up IPv6 on your Edgerouter.

Interfaces Link to heading

Most ISPs allow you to get a prefix via prefix delegation and use it for your subnets as you like. In germany the prefix size of /56 is very common.

In my example eht0 is may WAN interface. switch0 is my LAN interface and switch0.2 and switch0.3 are tagged vlans on my LAN interface.

About me

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m a DevOps Engineer Link to heading

I’m started as a Sys-Admin. Maintaining Client-Nodes, Servers (Windows and Linux) and managing network infrastructure was just the beginning. Nowerdays my focus is more in configuration and infrastructure as code. My heart belongs to pipelines.

Tools: Ansible, Terraform
Programming Languages: 🐍Python, ♨️Java
Learning: Golang, 🦀Rust
🐧Linux and ☸️K8s
Azure, AWS, HetznerCloud and GPC
CI/CD: AzureDevOps, gitlab-ci, jenkins, github-actions