Look for an ipfw example using NPTv6

Andrey V. Elsukov bu7cher at yandex.ru
Fri Jun 21 11:19:06 UTC 2019


On 20.06.2019 17:35, Michael Sierchio wrote:
> Oh, the problem is simply that my ISP assigns me a ::/64 but there is no
> guarantee that it's mine for the duration.
> 
> I'm in the process of securing my own IPv6 block, but was hoping for an
> interim solution.
> 
> One that occurred to me is to use a public ::/56 that's allocated (but
> unused) to me in an AWS VPC.  Route advertisements from them would make
> them unusable directly, but then NPTv6 would work.
> 
> Open to any suggestions.... ;-)

You can use some own prefix with global IPv6 addresses in the internal
network, and use NPTv6 with "ext_if external_ifname" option. It will
automatically use configured on the external interface prefix.
This feature is available in stable/12+.

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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