Re: IPv6 over ppp autoconfiguration not working in squeeze

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org> writes:

> Since my ISP does not send RA's over the PPP link, I had to add the
> global address and default route with a script. If autoconf does not
> work for you, you can first establish the connection and add the global
> address and default route by hand to check the IPv6 connectivity, then
> write a script to automate it.

The default route script can be as simple as something like this in e.g
/etc/ppp/ipv6-up.d/defaultroute :

 #!/bin/sh
 ip -6 route add default via $PPP_REMOTE dev $PPP_IFACE


But I will argue that using RAs is best if they are available. 



Bjørn