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AC68U AP mode ipv6 not working over wi-fi

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I don't run in AP mode so I don't know for sure, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. IPv6 works fine with link local addresses across WiFi for me. The wireless interfaces all have IPv6 enabled.
 
What about if you try and communicate between the IPv6 clients using their link local addresses? Is it simply that the clients aren't getting a public IPv6 address rather than IPv6 being "turned off" on the network interfaces?
 
What about if you try and communicate between the IPv6 clients using their link local addresses? Is it simply that the clients aren't getting a public IPv6 address rather than IPv6 being "turned off" on the network interfaces?

Tried it. Not working with LLA either.
 
That's disappointing. What do you get from these two commands (on the router):

ifconfig eth1
ifconfig eth2
 
That's disappointing. What do you get from these two commands (on the router):

ifconfig eth1
ifconfig eth2

Code:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:30
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:536414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1539000
          TX packets:365032 errors:25 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:445275559 (424.6 MiB)  TX bytes:70224818 (66.9 MiB)
          Interrupt:163


eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:34
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING ALLMULTI MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1481394 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1461287
          TX packets:2392056 errors:90 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:263727073 (251.5 MiB)  TX bytes:2908461346 (2.7 GiB)
          Interrupt:169
 
Oh dear, looks like you're correct. No IPv6 in AP mode - I wonder why.

Here's mine in router mode:
Code:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 30:5A:9A:C7:8A:20
          inet6 addr: fe80::325a:3aff:fec7:8a20/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:735634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:3589694
          TX packets:988965 errors:1018 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:134163442 (127.9 MiB)  TX bytes:596324460 (568.6 MiB)
          Interrupt:163

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 30:5A:3A:C7:8A:24
          inet6 addr: fe80::325a:3aff:fec7:8a24/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1818136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2841259
          TX packets:7132666 errors:81 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:244647401 (233.3 MiB)  TX bytes:724386879 (690.8 MiB)
          Interrupt:169

EDIT: I noticed that if I disable IPv6 on the WAN interface it removes IPv6 from the LAN interfaces. Perhaps if you switched to router mode, enabled IPv6 on the WAN and then switched back to AP mode??
 
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EDIT: I noticed that if I disable IPv6 on the WAN interface it removes IPv6 from the LAN interfaces. Perhaps if you switched to router mode, enabled IPv6 on the WAN and then switched back to AP mode??

IPv6 was originally enabled before I switched to AP mode. But just to be sure, I reset router, got in router mode, enabled IPv6 and changed to AP mode again, still not luck.

Can @RMerlin God give any insights?
 

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