In
Windows, I run these 2 commands in elevated cmd to disable temporary IPv6 assignment. Reboot afterwards.
netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled
netsh interface ipv6 set privacy state=disabled
The static IPv6 now assigned to Windows PC remains unchanged till I format Windows. I believe this is how static IPv6 works.
I also for the lulz assigned 1:2:3:4 as last quartets of static IPv6 manually from Windows settings. So whatismyip.com actually started showing me that as IP on their test page.
Here are my IPv6 settings
@Chip what is your use case scenario with pfsense? I use
Asus RT-AX88U and enbling IPv6 and adding 3
DNS servers is literally 1 click job of hitting Apply button. It just works and I never had to worry about anything. Just add the PC's IPv6 as an exclusion in
Router's firewall and boom ! my pc is accessible via remote desktop IPv6. The PiHole which I tried running off a QNAP server from LAN left a lot of empty white spaces on webpages so switched to Adguard Browser addons for iOS and Firefox. Newest beta firmware of RT-AX88U has added support for Wireguard so even that part has been taken care off. But most important of them all.... system stability. My router is now running more than 30 days uptime and AiMesh is as good as ever. Similar settings can be used on cheaper Asus RT-AX55
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Because of CG-NAT on IPv4 and most routers don't have their own static IPv6 address, I have installed Tailscale on QNAP and set up a static route of Asus's LAN IP address 192.168.1.1
So if I have to access my router's GUI from outside LAN, I simply start tailscale app on
iPhone or
android and type 192.168.1.1 and am taken to router's home page. Tailscale can even be installed on
Raspberry Pi or low power Windows PC like NUC which can run 24x7. That's the only downside of CG-NAT and using tailscale.
What am I missing?