Hello!
So I'm working on setting some stuff up, and long story short, I put my Spectrum rented cable modem in Bridge Mode and disabled the wireless. Then I took this cheap Vizio router I have, and a while back, I was able to get OpenWRT compiled on it. I think I'm the only one who has done this, because the flash size is very small and I'm extremely limited to how many features I can use.
But for experimental purposes, I'm using the Vizio OpenWRT router. I've setup wifi on it, and the WAN parts are working as expected, the WAN port is being assigned the public IPv4 address that the cable modem would normally be assigned.
The WAN6 is being assigned the public IPv6 address that the cable modem would normally be assigned. Everything good so far.
Now, this is where I have issues. The switch VLAN has the IPv4 network address of 192.168.1.1, good there. The DHCP server is properly handing out 192.168.1.x addresses.
But! With the IPv6 address. It has what I call a private one, but it also has a public IPv6 address, different from the WAN6 one. The WAN6 has IPv6 and then one called IPv6-PD. This PD one is what the switch VLAN looks like.
So, with my PCs on the LAN, wireless or wired, I'm receiving a "private" IPv6 address, but I'm also receiving a public IPv6 address. I don't want that. I want just private, and I want the router to handle everything, seeing how it offers a bit more protection.
Any ideas how to configure OpenWRT like that, where the switch VLAN interface (for the wireless and wired connections) is only being assigned the private IPv6 address and not the public? Just like it is with IPv4?
Thanks!
I can take screenshots if you guys want to see what I'm talking about, but I'll have to blank out some parts.
So I'm working on setting some stuff up, and long story short, I put my Spectrum rented cable modem in Bridge Mode and disabled the wireless. Then I took this cheap Vizio router I have, and a while back, I was able to get OpenWRT compiled on it. I think I'm the only one who has done this, because the flash size is very small and I'm extremely limited to how many features I can use.
But for experimental purposes, I'm using the Vizio OpenWRT router. I've setup wifi on it, and the WAN parts are working as expected, the WAN port is being assigned the public IPv4 address that the cable modem would normally be assigned.
The WAN6 is being assigned the public IPv6 address that the cable modem would normally be assigned. Everything good so far.
Now, this is where I have issues. The switch VLAN has the IPv4 network address of 192.168.1.1, good there. The DHCP server is properly handing out 192.168.1.x addresses.
But! With the IPv6 address. It has what I call a private one, but it also has a public IPv6 address, different from the WAN6 one. The WAN6 has IPv6 and then one called IPv6-PD. This PD one is what the switch VLAN looks like.
So, with my PCs on the LAN, wireless or wired, I'm receiving a "private" IPv6 address, but I'm also receiving a public IPv6 address. I don't want that. I want just private, and I want the router to handle everything, seeing how it offers a bit more protection.
Any ideas how to configure OpenWRT like that, where the switch VLAN interface (for the wireless and wired connections) is only being assigned the private IPv6 address and not the public? Just like it is with IPv4?
Thanks!
I can take screenshots if you guys want to see what I'm talking about, but I'll have to blank out some parts.
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