From: James Carlson <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPv6 with pppd
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 12:45:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bf1cf4dc-513b-7158-9b13-38ca5c112025@workingcode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACwWb3B6v7ayhoDpE-GAA8qKgbh=EM95eq9hHxHcZtusAaQqcw@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/26/19 07:30, Levente wrote:
> Dear maintainer,
>
>
> I am struggling with IPv6 over PPP on Linux. The situation is that I
> have a 3G modem, when I plug it in to the USB on my Debian box,
> everything works as expected, I have IPv6 address from the provider,
> and I am happy. But how?
There may be problems with this trace, possibly indicating 3G-specific
authentication issues, but if your only question is about IPv6, the
answer is very simple. PPP doesn't negotiate global scope addresses in
IPv6. It does link-local only. Global scope addresses come from either
ICMPv6 Router Advertisements, DHCPV6 address assignments, or static
configuration.
> Please note that in the logs, I can't see that global scope address,
> and I don't know how the IPv6CP assigns this address to the interface.
> How is this done?
Some other protocol. IPV6CP is not involved.
> And when I plug the same modem to an OpenWRT box, I don't get the
> global scope address, only the link-local address. Is this some PPP
> specific problem, or there might be some IPv6 autoconfiguration magic
> happening in the background? I don't think so, because that address
> corresponds to a statically allocated address of the provider.
>
> lev@mercury:~$ host 2a00:1110:135:4594:303e:582f:ea95:aa10
> 0.1.a.a.5.9.a.e.f.2.8.5.e.3.0.3.4.9.5.4.5.3.1.0.0.1.1.1.0.0.a.2.ip6.arpa
> domain name pointer
> 2A00111001354594303E582FEA95AA10.mobile.pool.telekom.hu.
>
> Could you help me out what is going on here, and why can't I get a
> global scope address on the OpenWRT? I'm sure it is an OpenWRT issue,
> but need help tracing it.
My guess would be that the OpenWRT box doesn't have IPv6 routing enabled
and isn't doing RAs. That's just a guess. I don't believe the issues
you're having here have anything to do with PPP.
--
James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@workingcode.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-26 11:30 Levente
2019-06-26 12:45 ` James Carlson [this message]
2019-06-26 14:43 ` Levente
2019-06-26 15:28 ` Michael Richardson
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