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Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)

So there I was, going through life without giving a second thought to IPv6. IPv4 worked fine for me, and why change what isn't broken, right? Well, sometimes life changes, and you start work for a new company, and that company actually uses IPv6.

This should serve as a guide to other people in the same situation, but be aware you need to be running at least OpenBSD 7.6, as that is the version that added support for dhcp6leased and updated rad to handle DHCPv6 PD (prefix delegation). I use AT&T as my internet service provider, and am stuck with DSL, as AT&T still, in this day and age, does not support fiber at my address. To assign IPv6 addresses to clients on the internal network, I had to create a rad.conf configuration file, which was more complex than dhcp6leased.conf, but still not too bad:

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