Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2008 10:55:36 +0100 | From | James Chapman <> | Subject | Re: Wired behaviour with IPv6 over PPP |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:56:43 +0200 Matthias Cramer <matthias.cramer@interway.ch> wrote: > >> Hi All >> >> I have a very wired behaviour when doing IPv6 over PPPoE. >> >> The situation: >> >> A linux box connected to a DSL Modem, on the other side is a Cisco LNS which terminates the PPP session (actually L2TP). >> I have control over both ends. >> >> When I have net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding set to 0 then the ppp Interface gets a IPv6 address from the Cisco via IP6CP. >> When I have net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding set to 1 them the ppp Interface does not get an address, it has only a normal link local address.
What do you mean by normal link local address?
>> When I start the ppp session with forwarding set to 0 I can ping out and there exists a default route to ppp0 , then I switch forwarding to 1 >> the default route disappears and therefore routing does not work any longer.
Did this work with previous kernel versions?
Does pppd log any errors?
>> >> Is this a known behaviour ? >> >> Or am I doing something the wrong way ? >> >> Kernel version is 2.6.25
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