Hello everyone.
After several days where I was about to go crazy, I finally managed to configure an OVH baremetal server with Proxmox and manage to use IPv6 addresses also on Pfsense and the virtual machines behind it.
I hope these hints will help some of you.
I should mention that I am not very knowledgeable about IPv6. I have for days been looking for solutions both on OVH documentation and in this forum. None of them gave any real help.
Another thing. On another OVH server but with a /56 prefix I had no problem. The routing works perfectly without any effort. Whereas for the server with a /64 prefix everything became a mystery, at least for me, and a nightmare.
Let's start with the configuration of Proxmox and IPv6.
I added the main IPv6 address and configured the gateway on the main interface vmbr0
I installed the
and started the service
I entered the following lines in
and ran
Let's move on to Pfsense. I take it for granted that everything related to IPv4 is already working.
To the WAN interface I have assigned the address
On the LAN port I assigned a private IPv6 address
Clearly, the necessary NAT and firewall rules were then made
The virtual machine has as IPv6 address
Everything works perfectly, both outgoing and incoming from both Pfsense and the virtual machine.
I hope this little guide can help someone
Regards
Pasquale
After several days where I was about to go crazy, I finally managed to configure an OVH baremetal server with Proxmox and manage to use IPv6 addresses also on Pfsense and the virtual machines behind it.
I hope these hints will help some of you.
I should mention that I am not very knowledgeable about IPv6. I have for days been looking for solutions both on OVH documentation and in this forum. None of them gave any real help.
Another thing. On another OVH server but with a /56 prefix I had no problem. The routing works perfectly without any effort. Whereas for the server with a /64 prefix everything became a mystery, at least for me, and a nightmare.
Let's start with the configuration of Proxmox and IPv6.
I added the main IPv6 address and configured the gateway on the main interface vmbr0
I installed the
npd6 package and configured npd6.conf withprefix=2001:41d0:203:xxxx::interface = vmbr0and started the service
I entered the following lines in
/etc/sysctl.confnet.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp=1and ran
sysctl -pLet's move on to Pfsense. I take it for granted that everything related to IPv4 is already working.
To the WAN interface I have assigned the address
2001:41d0:203:xxxx::1/64 and set the IPv6 gateway with address 2001:41d0:203:xxxx::, so the gateway is the Proxmox server itselfOn the LAN port I assigned a private IPv6 address
fddd:eeee:eeee::1:1/24Clearly, the necessary NAT and firewall rules were then made
The virtual machine has as IPv6 address
fddd:eeee:eeee::1:11/24 and as gateway fddd:eeee:eeee::1:1Everything works perfectly, both outgoing and incoming from both Pfsense and the virtual machine.
I hope this little guide can help someone
Regards
Pasquale