I know it was asked before here: IPv6 + pfSense Video Suggestion
But has there been any update on this? Looking for some semblance of direction with IPv6m sucbe ARIN is requiring us to show progress. We have a /48 and have the basics down, but routing is extremely complicated.
I might make a video on this as a broader topic because it’s not just a pfsense issue.
IPv6 adoption has stalled because the protocol never offered a compelling reason to switch. As Geoff Huston of APNIC Labs lays out, IPv6 is essentially “IPv4 with bigger addresses,” no faster, no more versatile, and no more secure, with its only real benefit being relief from IPv4 address exhaustion. The problem is that the industry already solved exhaustion well enough through NAT, which lets an average of about seven devices share a single IPv4 address, and through server-side tricks like TLS Server Name Indication that let one IP host many services. Because the payoff for deploying IPv6 is a discounted future risk rather than lower cost, more revenue, or market share, individual network operators have little motivation to act and there is no shared sense of urgency. The result is slow, attrition-driven uptake: more than a decade after IPv4 addresses ran out, only about a third of users can reach an IPv6-only service, and at the current trend the transition wouldn’t finish until roughly 2045. IPv4 persists simply because port-based address sharing works, and “works well enough” beats “technically purer” every time.
You may want to check out https://www.youtube.com/@apalrdsadventures, he has done many IPv6 vides on OpnSense and most can carry over to pfSense.