At this point I’m considering leasing a routable public IP address or a block of addresses for the ZyXEL
In this way the ATM/PTM traffic & PPPoE encapsulation is telco/ISP specific & an OpenBSD device can be assigned an ethernet port & public IP if needed Regards Patrick > On Mar 19, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Tom Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Another thing to check is whether the PPPoE tunnel is trying to negotiate > IPv6. I had this happen with my ISP. I was disconnecting every 5-6 minutes. > I ended up changing my hostname.pppoe0 to: > > inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE \ > pppoedev re0 authproto chap \ > authname '[email protected]' up > dest 0.0.0.1 > inet6 eui64 > !/sbin/route add default -ifp pppoe0 0.0.0.1 > !/sbin/route add -inet6 default -ifp pppoe0 fe80:: > > > It stopped disconnecting me every 5 minutes after that. Even though it's > still using IPv4, something on the other end wasn't liking the fact that I > "had no IPv6 support" on my side. > > Hope this helps, > > Tom
