On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:42:10PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: > On 07/10/14 10:03 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > >Since it's non-obvious how to setup pppoe for v6 now that link-local > >addresses are no longer configured by default, I think we should have > >something in the manual. > > > >Any comments/objections/suggestions for a better way to do this? > > This doesn't make any sense. IPv6CP configures the link local address.
IPv6CP prevents *collisions* of link-local addresses on the same p2p link. If an existing link-local address doesn't collide with the remote peer's address we keep using the existing address. The link-local address will be changed by IPv6CP only if there is a collision (which won't ever happen under normal conditions). > Having to do something like this is illogical and counter intuitive. I > agree it should be documented per se but the current behavior is just > plain stupid. A route to fe80:: needs to be configured statically in any case until autoconf works with ip6 forwarding enabled. !/sbin/route add default -ifp pppoe0 fe80:: I suppose we can't run this command from hostname.pppoe0 if there is no IPv6 address yet, so it makes sense to configure one first.
