I made a Virtual AP that serves only IPv6 with no compatability features, and named it Free IPv6 Internet.
There is no v4, and I have blocked all v4 on the interface just in case.
I’ve also blocked everything on the input chain, and isolated it from my LAN with a foward filter on IPv6.
I also put a simple queue on it to keep people from mooching too much of my bandwidth.
I’m just curious to see whether it gets any usage or not.
Right now, I’m just logging wireless events - what else might I do to get a list of who has connected and what they’ve done? I’m going to enable a graphing target as well. Might as well catch a picture of the utilization.
I’m just curious to see whether it gets anyone actually attached to it - it’s in a neighborhood, so it would either be my neighbors or else a strange van with no windows parked in the road.
As I don’t know to much about the RouterOS I’m not sure if the following would be an adition.
As IPv6 clients (like androids) do not hava a static DNS and RA also doesnt, maybe enable DHCPv6, setup a DNS server and log the queries? Then you would see what sites and maybe services would be accessed.
You will have problem with Windows clients, because they won’t get DNS from RA. Not even the latest and greatest Windows 10. It seems that Microsoft decided to boycot this technology. But they all have fec0:0:0:ffff::1, fec0:0:0:ffff::2 and fec0:0:0:ffff::3 hardcoded as DNS, so you can add one of those to your router, to give them working DNS.
In a way, it’s even better, because at least this way, they will use your router’s DNS cache. Clients getting DNS from RA will bypass it, because RouterOS does not send them its own address, it just passess the address of external IPv6 resolver from /ip dns. I’m wondering if MikroTik has any plans to fix it.
I saw that my iPhone got the Mikrotik’s dns server and not the mikrotik itself AS the server.
Interestingly, my Windows7 laptop worked just fine when I removed IPv4 from the wireless network connection profile. (I played around with that prior to this 6-only ssid) Obviously my mikrotik wasn’t giving dhcpv6 information, yet somehow my laptop had a link-local DNS server. It’s been a week or so, so I’m not sure whether it was my mikrotik or one of those well-known site-local multicast addresses . (maybe Win7 just defaults to using its default gateway as a dns server in lieu of anything else). I’m going to go do a little packet sniffing tonight on the RA packets and double-check what DNS resolver my laptop gets assigned / correctly guesses to use.
If I can get a stable OpenWRT image rigged up with tayga and dns64, I’m going to put that into the mix on my 6-only network just to see how smooth or rocky the end-user experience is for a 6-only box.
Well, I solved the mystery of my Windows7 box using default router link-local address as DNS server…
I had apparently hard-wired it previously, so yes - Windows pretty much requires a dhcpv6 stateless server to hand it dns servers. (RA-learned dns = no go)
Mikrotik - is IPv6 going to be getting any love in ROS version 7?
Oh - and another interesting thing - older winbox seems to be refusing to use my IPv6 right now - I’ve used it before - not sure what the @#$!%* is wrong with it…
