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Native IPv6 over Swisscom VDSL

Submitted by mike on Thu, 2010-02-25 20:01

Thanks to our friends at nts.workspace we now have native IPv6 on our VDSL line at home.

There was some fighting with the Vyatta router as there is no support for IPv6CP in VC 6 Alpha 3 that I'm currently using. I got it to work by using another ppp package and some manual edits.

I performed the following steps to make it work:

  • install Ubuntu ppp package
  • add '+ipv6 ipv6cp-use-ipaddr' to /etc/ppp/peers/pppoe1
  • add default route with 'set protocols static interface-route6 ::/0 next-hop-interface pppoe1'

Note that the setting to enable IPv6 on the ppp link is not persistent across reboots.

Check bug #5384 in the Vyatta bug tracker for updates.