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> My ISP changes the prefix on a regular base (and on request)

I found this was the case (with Telus) until I reconfigured the DHCPv6-PD client on my gateway, mainly to stop it from sending DHCPv6 Release messages and to have it explicitly request the prefix I was previously assigned.

OpenWRT in particular seemed to be built not to save any dhcp client state in non-volatile memory, resulting in a lot of unnecessary address and prefix churn when rebooting the router. I've had the same stable prefix for over a year now, using systemd-networkd with the following configuration (the important parts are SendRelease=no, RequestAddress= and PrefixDelegationHint=; the rest of the options are just insurance):

https://gist.github.com/dlitz/487d733140aa784559d73e4cd6f723...

parent dlitz 6 months ago

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