How to fix MikroTik "Couldn't add new IPv6 Pool - prefix length cannot be smaller than prefix (6)"?
Problem:
You are trying to add a new IPv6 pool with settings such as
But when you click OK
, you see an error message Couldn't add new IPv6 Pool - prefix length cannot be smaller than prefix (6)
Solution
You need to add the prefix length - e.g. /64
to the Prefix
field as well:
Now click OK
or apply and the error will disappear.
Important note: You might want to use a different Prefix Length
here (typically it is smaller than the e.g. /64
at the end of the Prefix
field so multiple prefixes can be extracted from the given pool.