I gave it the old college try about 6 months ago. Found out how to send the req for a subnet to my ISP. Configured my opnsense. When it worked, it worked. But it would randomly stop routing regularly. After a lot of troubleshooting determined it was the isp and have up.

Maybe I'll try again in another 6 months.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is remarkably common. A major factor is how to handle renewals. There appears to either be bugs with the procedure or there's disagreement on how it should be handled. So it will work, for a while, until a renewal needs to happen, then everything goes to shit.

I've directly witnessed this in router/firewall logs. That there's an attempt to renew the DHCP-PD, which does not get a valid reply.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so is there just no standard for renewal? Or are ISPs just refusing to use the standard, for whatever reason?

I can't imagine we don't already have a standard for this shit. I'd be baffled if we didn't. So surely it's just ISPs being their usual, useless selves.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is less to do with the ISPs and more to do with the implementation of DHCP-PD renewals on various software/hardware devices. I'm not going to point any fingers, but it seems that some vendors don't play very nicely with other vendors.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

oh so it's a classic instance of shitty hardware vendors doing shitty software things.

Gotta love technology.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Always has been