Tata Sky Broadband: Static IPV6 - Unable to Configure

C3PO said:
@shankar29 what was the reason to go in for an IPv6 address? Static addresses are prone to hack attacks. It is better you opt for a dynamic address for security reasons.
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I need static IP for two things,

(i) I need to access my Home Surveillance IP cameras when I am on the move. Some of my new Hikvision Cameras support remote viewing thorugh their servers over the internet without a static IP but the chinese ones dont / they seemed to be quite slow.

(ii) Secondly, I need to remotely access my NAS server when i am at work / travelling.I think that remote access VPN is the best way achieve it. Hence I have setup OpenVPN with IPV6 on Pfsense but im still facing a few glitches with Tata Sky's DHCPv6.

Anybody know of a better / more secure way to achieve these two, please let me know...
 
While I like zerotier and no doubt it's great and I use it myself. It creates a problem when I need to quickly share something to someone.

Nothing beats the ease of just giving them the url to the service serving it from my home and they getting the result instantaneously rather than getting them to install zerotier VPN. Speically with things like Plex and Chromecast/TV playing videos from my home NAS

If you can get static IP then go for it if you can't zerotier is your best bet.
 
The problem i am facing with Tata Sky is that they are providing IPV6 through DHCPv6 - Prefix Delegation. This directly allocates IPV6 addresses from pool randomly and i have no control over things. The addresses are seem static but I cannot pick and choose or i am doing something wrong.

If i have enable DHCPv6 on PFsense, I have to move to a different subnet on LAN... Correct?
 
shankar29 said:
(i) I need to access my Home Surveillance IP cameras when I am on the move. Some of my new Hikvision Cameras support remote viewing thorugh their servers over the internet without a static IP but the chinese ones dont / they seemed to be quite slow.
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This is a bad idea. You should firewall your cameras so they cant talk to the internet. And only use your VPN to access these.
 
I had a similar issue last year. This is what I did...

1. Get the current IP address using a script (plenty of scripts available on the internet; most of them are one-liners)
2. I had a domain that uses Cloudflare DNS. I used one subdomain (such as home.example.com) to point to a random A record (in your case AAAA record).
3. Then used hyecheol123/Cloudflare-Public-Dynamic-IP-Update to update the IP iin Cloudflare whenever the dynamic IP changes or every hour or minute.
4. I can now connect to my home VPN using home.example.com.

I hope that helps.
 
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