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> FreeBSD’s DHCP client in base does not yet support DHCPv6. To get an IP and a prefix, you need to install one from ports. I’m using dhcp6c, following this guide[1] to set it up.

Colin Percival made it a bit easier (IMO)[1] it is meant for AWS EC2 but worked for me with my ISP as well. The guide you submitted probably will work everywhere.

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2017-01-26-IPv6-on-FreeBSD-E...

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Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out, I was wrong. dhcpcd is being imported into base for FreeBSD 13.

One big limitation with dual-dhclient is that dhclient doesn’t support setting the delegated prefix on the interface. You have to parse it out and generate a rtadvd.conf with the prefix.

I ended up switching from dhcp6 to dhcpcd since the latter is actually maintained and seems to work better with my ISP (hopefully …).

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