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IPv6 - possible to configure the link-local-address (to fe80::1 for example) ?

In the IPv6 training, a manually configured IPv6 link-local address for the gateway was considered "best practice".
fe80::1 would be a good choice...
Is it possible to configure this with sophos firewall?
...or why this should not be done?

thx in advance

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0 Vivek Jagad 4 months ago

Hi dirkkotte ,

Thank you for reaching out to the community, where automatic can benefit in regards to the scalability, efficiency and ease of management for large networks. Manually on the other hand is beneficial in terms of control, reliability and troubleshooting any potential gateway issue which provides you flexibility and optimization of the network performance.

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0 dirkkotte 4 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

Hi,

Thanks.

Currently, i didn't find a way to configure this. Is there an option?

Dirk

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0 Vivek Jagad 4 months ago in reply to dirkkotte

Hi dirkkotte you can refer - IPv6 router advertisement.

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0 LHerzog 3 months ago in reply to Vivek Jagad

also note my recent post about this

IPv6 Gateway constantly failing

technically it works to use fe80::1

but it does not work to use this IP to check the availability of the gateway and the firewall uses it automatically in the check when you configure it as gateway.

Should be changed afterwards to a pingable IPv6.
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0 rfcat_vk 3 months ago in reply to LHerzog

You probably should have a real address on your external interface and link local for the gateway which would be provided by your ISP/RSP.

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0 rfcat_vk 3 months ago in reply to LHerzog

You probably should have a real address on your external interface and link local for the gateway which would be provided by your ISP/RSP.

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