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My ISP assign changes the IPv4 /32 and IPv6 prefix every PPPoE authentication. This is so annoying and breaks routing every couple days or so that I ended up running NPT (NAT for IPv6) and using a ULA block for my LAN.

I've seen reports saying you can request a specific prefix as hints to Prefix Delegation and it keeps it mostly static but it is not guaranteed.

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I'm a little confused why you would need NPT to resolve this? Why not just create a separate local prefix for your local networking needs? Unless you mean something else by "breaks routing"?

Let's say you get delegated prefix abcd::/64, and you distribute it in your LAN with DHCP.

Now, every PPPoE authentication gets you a different prefix, so if your PPPoE session gets dropped somehow, the clients in the LAN won't get the new IPv6 address until the next DHCP renewal.

In this case, let's say the PPPoE session got dropped, and you got a new delegated prefix of dcba::/64. Your client's IP still has the abcd:: IP, while the router now only knows how to route the dcba:: prefix.

The only way I found to make it work is to give clients a ULA prefix and NPT the ULA with the dynamic delegated prefix from my ISP.

Ah I understand now, what a clever solution!

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