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

MikroTik RouterOS IPv6 pool creation dialog with prefix and prefix length fields

But when you click OK, you see an error message Couldn't add new IPv6 Pool - prefix length cannot be smaller than prefix (6) MikroTik RouterOS error message prefix length cannot be smaller than prefix 6 when adding IPv6 pool

Solution

You need to add the prefix length - e.g. /64 to the Prefix field as well:

MikroTik RouterOS IPv6 pool creation dialog with correct prefix length including slash notation

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.


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