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lastproofread: '2021-06-29'
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(examples-pppoe-ipv6-basic)=

# PPPoE IPv6 Basic Setup for Home Network

This document is to describe a basic setup using PPPoE with DHCPv6-PD +
SLAAC to construct a typical home network. The user can follow the steps
described here to quickly setup a working network and use this as a starting
point to further configure or fine-tune other settings.

To achieve this, your ISP is required to support DHCPv6-PD. If you're not sure,
please contact your ISP for more information.

## Network Topology

```{image} /_static/images/pppoe-ipv6-pd-diagram.webp
:align: center
:alt: Network Topology Diagram
:width: 60%
```

## Configurations

### PPPoE Setup

```none
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 authentication password <YOUR PASSWORD>
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 authentication user <YOUR USERNAME>
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 service-name <YOUR SERVICENAME>
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 source-interface 'eth0'
```

- Fill `password` and `user` with the credential provided by your ISP.
- `service-name` can be an arbitrary string.

### DHCPv6-PD Setup

During address configuration, in addition to assigning an address to the WAN
interface, ISP also provides a prefix to allow the router to configure addresses
of LAN interface and other nodes connecting to LAN, which is called prefix
delegation (PD).

```none
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 ipv6 address autoconf
set interfaces pppoe pppoe0 dhcpv6-options pd 0 interface eth1 address '100'
```

- Here we use the prefix to configure the address of eth1 (LAN) to form
  `<prefix>::64`, where `64` is hexadecimal of address 100.
- For home network users, most of time ISP only provides /64 prefix, hence
  there is no need to set SLA ID and prefix length. See {ref}`pppoe-interface`
  for more information.

### Router Advertisement

We need to enable router advertisement for LAN network so that PC can receive
the prefix and use SLAAC to configure the address automatically.

```none
set service router-advert interface eth1 link-mtu '1492'
set service router-advert interface eth1 name-server <NAME SERVER>
set service router-advert interface eth1 prefix ::/64 valid-lifetime '172800'
```

- Set MTU in advertisement to 1492 because of PPPoE header overhead.
- Set DNS server address in the advertisement so that clients can obtain it by
  using RDNSS option. Most operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac) should
  already support it.
- Here we set the prefix to `::/64` to indicate advertising any /64 prefix
  the LAN interface is assigned.
- Since some ISPs disconnects continuous connection for every 2~3 days, we set
  `valid-lifetime` to 2 days to allow PC for phasing out old address.

### Basic Firewall

To have basic protection while keeping IPv6 network functional, we need to:

- Allow all established and related traffic for router and LAN
- Allow all icmpv6 packets for router and LAN
- Allow DHCPv6 packets for router

```none
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN default-action 'drop'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN rule 10 action 'accept'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN rule 10 state established 'enable'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN rule 10 state related 'enable'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN rule 20 action 'accept'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_IN rule 20 protocol 'icmpv6'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL default-action 'drop'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 10 action 'accept'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 10 state established 'enable'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 10 state related 'enable'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 20 action 'accept'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 20 protocol 'icmpv6'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 30 action 'accept'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 30 destination port '546'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 30 protocol 'udp'
set firewall ipv6 name WAN_LOCAL rule 30 source port '547'
set firewall ipv6 forward filter rule 10 action jump
set firewall ipv6 forward filter rule 10 jump-target 'WAN_IN'
set firewall ipv6 forward filter rule 10 inbound-interface name 'pppoe0'
set firewall ipv6 input filter rule 10 action jump
set firewall ipv6 input filter rule 10 jump-target 'WAN_LOCAL'
set firewall ipv6 input filter rule 10 inbound-interface name 'pppoe0'
```

Note to allow the router to receive DHCPv6 response from ISP. We need to allow
packets with source port 547 (server) and destination port 546 (client).