in order to have public ipv6 on starlink you need to manage the /56 they delegate to you into however many /64s that is (at least 8); i tested it with a store bought router, everything worked if you can do PD with DHCP[v6] or whatever. I returned the router because it was $200 and i will eventually figure it out on a VM.

It's pretty simple with systemd-networkd:

  # On the upstream network.
  [Network]
  DHCP=yes
  [DHCPv6]
  PrefixDelegationHint=::/56

  # On each downstream network.
  [Network]
  IPv6SendRA=yes
  DHCPPrefixDelegation=yes

One frustrating part is that as far as I can tell nothing supports easy downstream DHCPv6-PD delegation, so machines on the downstream network that want their own prefix won't be able to get one automatically. OpenWRT's network config daemon supports it, but nothing on regular Linux does.

> however many /64s that is (at least 8);

256!