On 10/09/18 19:51, Andrey Vakhitov wrote: > Hello Simon & Uwe, > >> unfortunately that problem is seen often with providers in Germany, although >> the large ones no longer >> do it (or allow to disable the disconnect). The problem is that German >> providers automatically >> disconnect the PPPoE connection every 24 hrs. After reconnecting you get a >> new address (IPv4) and >> prefix (IPv6). Since the changes we did (deprecating prefixes) this works >> fine for standard router >> advertisements. But won't help for DHCPv6. > > This is exactly my case, my ISP is o2. > >>> Dnsmasq doesn't implement RECONFIGURE. It probably should. The main >>> problem, from a quick look at the RFC, is that RECONFIGURE mandates >>> use of security mechanism, and dnsmasq doesn't implement that either! > > I know that it's against RFC but some routers (like the fritzbox I'm using, > very popular choice in Germany) actually send RECONFIGURE without > authentication. This is BTW the reason for introduction of "noauthrequired" > config option in dhcpcd ;-)
I wonder if a very simple RECONFIGURE implementation would work here: Just send a non-specific RECONFIGURE message to all clients when a new IPV6 network turns up? Without security. That would be fairly simple to implement and to configure. Cheers, Simon. > _______________________________________________ Dnsmasq-discuss mailing list Dnsmasq-discuss@lists.thekelleys.org.uk http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dnsmasq-discuss
