Dual WAN with cable modem (dhcp) and ADSL (pppoe) with static IP (and IPv6)

[Eugen Leitl]

I'm running a pfSense 2.0RC3 (with 4 physical NICs)
at home with cable modem on WAN assigned by DHCP.
Works well -- unless it's down.

I'm thinking about adding an ADSL line and run dual-WAN
for redundancy and load-leveling.

The ADSL is PPPoE with static IP but also offers IPv6
(local provider MNet). Latter appears to require some
modifications

http://carsten.schoene.cc/2011/03/natives-ipv6-auf-einem-m-net-dsl-anschluss/

(ppp, pppoe, wide-dhcpv6, radvd, etc.).

1) Will pfSense be able to handle the simple case
(dual-WAN with load-leveling, one interface DHCP,
another PPPOE)?

2) Any chances with getting IPv6 with ADSL working,
given above complications?
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[Chris Buechler]

Post by Eugen Leitl
I'm running a pfSense 2.0RC3 (with 4 physical NICs)
at home with cable modem on WAN assigned by DHCP.
Works well -- unless it's down.
I'm thinking about adding an ADSL line and run dual-WAN
for redundancy and load-leveling.
The ADSL is PPPoE with static IP but also offers IPv6
(local provider MNet). Latter appears to require some
modifications
http://carsten.schoene.cc/2011/03/natives-ipv6-auf-einem-m-net-dsl-anschluss/
(ppp, pppoe, wide-dhcpv6, radvd, etc.).
1) Will pfSense be able to handle the simple case
 (dual-WAN with load-leveling, one interface DHCP,
  another PPPOE)?

Yes, no problem.

Post by Eugen Leitl
2) Any chances with getting IPv6 with ADSL working,
  given above complications?

Depends on how your IPv6 is delivered (assuming it's native, if a
tunnel it's fine). If it's statically routed, definitely not a
problem. I'm not sure offhand the status of the various dynamic IPv6
WANs, I know some work remains to be done there in general.

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[Seth Mos]

Post by Eugen Leitl
The ADSL is PPPoE with static IP but also offers IPv6
(local provider MNet). Latter appears to require some
modifications
http://carsten.schoene.cc/2011/03/natives-ipv6-auf-einem-m-net-dsl-anschluss/
(ppp, pppoe, wide-dhcpv6, radvd, etc.).
1) Will pfSense be able to handle the simple case
(dual-WAN with load-leveling, one interface DHCP,
another PPPOE)?

For v4, yes. Because of NAT.

Post by Eugen Leitl
2) Any chances with getting IPv6 with ADSL working,
given above complications?

Some ISPs statically route your ipv6 space on your circuit, then it will just work even without the dhcp6 client. You can then manually configure a v6 address on your PPPoE. Provided you know what the prefix will be.

The dhcp6 client is started for DHCP interfaces but in your case the 2nd WAN interface needs the dhcp6 client. And running two dhcp6 clients appears to be a problem when I tested during development.

The interfaces page needs to really have this split out so that you can toggle the dhcp6 client for quite a number of types. As this is going to be the preferred method of configuring by ISPs.

I manually launched a dhcp6 client on a native v6 pppoe I had access too in .nl. I quickly discovered that this caused a recursing reconfiguration which made accessing the box remotely really hard.

Load balancing with v6 is tricky and requires NPtv6, of which we have support but the page is missing proper validation.

I've stopped working on the v6 code about 2 months ago through intervention. I hope to come back to it "soon".

Regards,

Seth

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[Seth Mos]

Post by Eugen Leitl
The ADSL is PPPoE with static IP but also offers IPv6
(local provider MNet). Latter appears to require some
modifications

The current 2.1 code should allow you to configure the DHCP6 client on
your PPPoE WAN. I've done some basic testing that it works.

Post by Eugen Leitl
2) Any chances with getting IPv6 with ADSL working,
given above complications?

Yes.

Regards,

Seth

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