Hello. I have a Netgear R9000 router. I have enabled ipv6 on the WAN side, selected DHCP, and Cox happily assigns my router an ipv6 adress (as it does for ipv4 of course).
On the LAN side, if I choose DHCP then my client workstations get an ipv6 address but after 24-36 hours they lose the ability to communicate via ipv6.
If I choose "Auto Config" on the LAN side, the clients get assigned an ipv6 address and work fine, and seem to keep a good connection indefinitely.
Can someone knowledgeable explain the difference, and why it's ok if DHCP does not seem to work reliably when set to DHCP on the lan-side? Is the point that Cox will provide a single ipv6 address for my WAN-side as it does for ipv4 on the WAN-side, and how I use a router to distribute that service to my stations is my business?
As mentioned before, set to DHCP on the LAN side does work -- but only for 24-36 hours.
I've tried to read about stateful, stateless, auto config, and dhcp but am unclear on what's going on. Ideally how are ipv6 clients supposed to get an ipv6 address?
Thanks/jim
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