[GTALUG] does anyone know how to make CentOS 7's PPPoE client handle IPv6?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Apr 10 14:03:05 EDT 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 01:53:40PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> I have a DSL account with Teksavvy.  They claim to support IPv6 on DSL.
> https://help.teksavvy.com/hc/en-us/articles/205837513-IPv6
> 
> I'm using a CentOS 7 box with Roaring Penquin PPPoE to connect.
> 
> That's worked fine for a couple of years.  But only for IPv6.
> 
> I would like to enable IPv6 because BIND, my nameserver, is trying to 
> access some IPv6 things and is failing.
> 
> Does anyone know how to enable IPv6 in this situation?
> 
> Almost as good would be convincing BIND that it should not talk IPv6.
> I'll need to do this anyway on another gateway at another location.
> It is hooked up via an ISP that doesn't support IPv6.

Well IPv6 has worked well under LEDE for a long time for me.  It certainly
does work with teksavvy.  DHCPv6-PD seems to do the job well.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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