No IPv6 for PPPoE

Hi Tim, thanks for your question.

This should be possible already, however some ISPs require IPv6 DHCP-PD to provide the IPv6 address (BT for example). We do not currently support DHCP-PD, however this is on the roadmap for v18. Sadly it didn't make the feature cut for 17.5.

Regards,

Stuart

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for your reply - is there any timescale on the release of v18 - I suspect that's a bit of an elephant in the room...

Regards

-Tim

Best estimate I can give you at the moment is v18 will be this time next year.

Regards,

Stuart

By then we could be up to IPv8, LOL

Ian

It's most annoying as I have clients that were looking for a firewall solution which uses IPv6, and would allow IPv6 DHCP-PD.

They replicate fileserver using IPv6 connectivity through firewalls.

Hi,

the only Sophos solution is the UTM which has been correctly handling IPv6 for many years. I was contemplating putting a UTM in front of my XG to enable IPv6 handling. The UTM handles IPv6 without a NAT and it is integrated into the UTM, not like the XG where the IPv6 is treated as a separate firewall

Sophos do not seem to be able to grasp the requirement for IPv6 compliance in this modern networking age. Very few ISPs around the world have IP4 address ranges to sell to customers, but will quite happily sell you an IPv6 solution with a static /56.

Ian

edited spelling

I'm amazed by the number of users out there that are using IPv6 - I thought it was just a nice feature to have and future proofing your environment, but a couple of big businesses I deal with are fully IPv6 compliant, and use it as it's meant to be used with direct access to servers.

The beauty of having no NAT makes it so easy to do so, and you can get away from Site-to-site VPN as you can firewall to allow encrypted communication over the internet.

Great for backups of servers over VDSL for example.

I'm amazed by the number of users out there that are using IPv6 - I thought it was just a nice feature to have and future proofing your environment, but a couple of big businesses I deal with are fully IPv6 compliant, and use it as it's meant to be used with direct access to servers.

The beauty of having no NAT makes it so easy to do so, and you can get away from Site-to-site VPN as you can firewall to allow encrypted communication over the internet.

Great for backups of servers over VDSL for example.