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mrc99
(learned) Wed 03-Jan-24 19:12:09

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: candlerb] [link to this post]

In reply to a post by candlerb:
All these suggest routing on my side was working, and that the Aquiss BRAS had lost its IPv6 default gateway, at least in the context of my PPPoE session.

I have set up some monitoring now. The first time it happened I didn't notice straight away - "Happy Eyeballs" masks this sort of problem when you're just browsing.

Interesting indeed (& apols to the OP for the thread hijack).

I hadn't thought to check whether v6 traffic was still being received - next time it happens I'll run tcpdump on the Asus and see if I can see v6 Internet traffic arriving. If so I'll see if I can change the default route to the new LL address and get routing back.

ramzez
(newbie) Thu 04-Jan-24 13:57:47

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: mrc99] [link to this post]

I just gave up on ipv6 with my pfsense, every time I enable it something else fails to work. usual suspects things like Disney plus or amazon prime video taking ages to load. Yahoo seems to have issues with ipv6, just like random things. Dont' really see any point for home user tbh.

Mygri
(member) Thu 04-Jan-24 16:58:02

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: Scoot] [link to this post]

Come March this year, I will have been with Aquiss for 4 years. I'm on the Pure Fibre 80 plan (more than enough for our current needs), and would thoroughly recommend them.

A smooth and impressively rapid pick-up from the previous supplier, and faultless service ever since! Need I say more?

candlerb
(knowledge is power) Fri 05-Jan-24 11:06:16

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: mrc99] [link to this post]

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I hadn't thought to check whether v6 traffic was still being received - next time it happens I'll run tcpdump on the Asus and see if I can see v6 Internet traffic arriving. If so I'll see if I can change the default route to the new LL address and get routing back.

Which LL (link-local?) address are you referring to? An interface identifier on the PPPoE WAN interface? IPv6CP does allow negotiation of this.

Checking on my RB4011:

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/ipv6 address print where interface=pppoe-out2
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic, G - global, L - link-local #    ADDRESS                                     FROM-POOL INTERFACE                                       ADVERTISE
 0  G 2001:4d48:XXXX:XX00::1/128                            pppoe-out2                                      no 1 DL fe80::d/64

I statically assigned the global IP to the interface, so the (D)ynamic address fe80:: d is probably assigned by the BRAS.

But I don't use any link-local address for routing, I just point default route at the pppoe interface by name (actually just IPv6 unicast space):

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1 2	/ipv6 route add distance=1 dst-address=2000::/3 gateway=pppoe-out2

Hmm, I just noticed something very weird:

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1 23	/ipv6 neighbor print where interface=pppoe-out2 Flags: R - router 0 address=2a02:68:1::164 interface=pppoe-out2 status="noarp"

That IPv6 address is ipv6.pingbox1.thinkbroadband.com (i.e. the TBB BQM). I have no idea why it should appear as a direct interface neighbor, but it does hint at a Mikrotik IPv6 bug.

If IPv6 breaks again, I'll check whether any of this has changed.

FWIW, I'm running RouterOS 6.49.11. Mikrotik aren't really supporting v6 any more (I reported a memory leak problem a while ago and they told me to upgrade to 7.10.1 to see if the problem still exists), so I guess I'll be forced to go to 7.x sooner rather than later.

idmanager
(regular) Fri 05-Jan-24 14:07:04

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: Scoot] [link to this post]

I was with zen fttp 900mb service, when the contract was up I moved to Aquiss with out any issues my speed is always full and don't have any issues, when. service is this good you don't need to look anywhere else

mrc99
(learned) Wed 10-Jan-24 12:19:49

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: candlerb] [link to this post]

In reply to a post by candlerb:
Which LL (link-local?) address are you referring to? An interface identifier on the PPPoE WAN interface? IPv6CP does allow negotiation of this.

Apols for the delay in replying - I've been away. The LL address is the IPv6 neighbour allocated by Aquiss via dhcpv6. I've been monitoring the RA traffic and these are also coming through fine and inside the route expiry figures.

I'm pretty sure the issue I'm seeing is the router s/w as when I don't get IPv6 routing I can see that the router is allocating a route to my delegated IPv6 range to the ppp interface as well as to the correct bridge interface:-

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Lexy:/tmp/home/root# ip -6 r
2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::/56 dev br0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium2001:xxx:xxxx:xxxx::/56 dev ppp0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 2591961sec pref medium
fe80::/64 dev eth1 proto kernel metric 256 pref mediumfe80::/64 dev spu_us_dummy proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
fe80::/64 dev spu_ds_dummy proto kernel metric 256 pref mediumfe80::/64 dev eth6 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
fe80::/64 dev eth7 proto kernel metric 256 pref mediumfe80::/64 dev br0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 linkdown pref mediumfe80::/64 dev eth2 proto kernel metric 256 linkdown pref medium
fe80::/64 dev eth3 proto kernel metric 256 linkdown pref mediumfe80::/64 dev eth4 proto kernel metric 256 linkdown pref medium
fe80::/10 dev ppp0 metric 1 pref mediumfe80::/10 dev ppp0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
default via fe80::f60f:1bff:fe17:b100 dev ppp0 proto ra metric 1024 expires 1761sec hoplimit 64 pref medium

If I delete the errant ppp0 route then IPv6 works correctly for all clients. Unfortunately something then occasionally re-creates the route. Repeated reboots tend to "fix" the problem with the wrong routing table entry not being created. There's no global IPv6 address allocated to the ppp0 interface and I wouldn't expect one:

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Lexy:/tmp/home/root# ip -6 a show dev br0
27: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,ALLMULTI,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000    inet6 2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1/56 scope global 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever    inet6 fe80::ca7f:54ff:fed3:3010/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft foreverLexy:/tmp/home/root# ip -6 a show dev ppp0
31: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1492 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 3    inet6 fe80::3133:a3d1:e2a:789/10 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

I may post to the SNBForum site where the Merlin support people tend to hang out. It certainly doesn't look like an Aquiss problem.

ramzez
(newbie) Wed 10-Jan-24 13:52:09

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: mrc99] [link to this post]

I disabled ipv6 on pfsense, as it's also gives random working result. too lazy to figure it out as don't really think ipv6 support worth it for home.

candlerb
(knowledge is power) Wed 10-Jan-24 14:16:10

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: mrc99] [link to this post]

If you're doing IPoE and DHCPv6 that's a whole different ballgame to my PPPoE setup.

But I'm a bit confused about what you're saying, because I didn't think DHCPv6 can allocate link-local addresses. From RFC8415 section 5:

"The client uses a link-local address or
addresses determined through other mechanisms for transmitting and
receiving DHCP messages."

And you show a ppp0 interface. Perhaps you're using DHCPv6 for prefix delegation only?

Also, what seems problematic to me is this:

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1 2	2001:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::/56 dev br0 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium 2001:xxx:xxxx:xxxx::/56 dev ppp0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 2591961sec pref medium

You shouldn't have a route to your own /56 via the ppp interface; and if there are two identical routes like that, both with preference medium, it's arbitrary which one will be used.

Scoot
(member) Mon 22-Jan-24 13:28:56

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: mrc99] [link to this post]

Thanks for the replies all, still not sorted my move to another ISP yet.

Can anyone answer is Aquiss on CityFibre or Openreach, seeing mixed posts suggesting they might be on Openreach and if thats so I wont need a new ONT from CityFiber installed and that might make me choose them over anyone else.

In reply to a post by 4M2:
Have you considered a suitable router that you may have or need for Aquiss Pure Fibre 1000 FTTP?

Yes thanks, I have my own router which is more than capable to handle a 1Gig line including my NIC on PC.

In reply to a post by mrc99:
I'm also a couple of months into a 1GB Aquiss package and overall I'm very pleased.

Thanks for the reply.

ian72
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Mon 22-Jan-24 13:37:52

Re: Aquiss.net - Recommendations?

[re: Scoot] [link to this post]

Mine is OpenReach as Cityfibre have no presence here. I have no idea if they have the ability to use wholesale services from both, if they do then I would guess they would use whichever was cheapest in an area.

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