Bjørn Mork <[email protected]> wrote: > > Further, NM doesn't allow me to specify a peer address ("ipv6 ," is the > > only parameter that it will specify, with both addresses omitted), and I > > don't know how to automatically retrieve the peer address from within the > > NM framework. > > Note that you don't specify the peer address in your ifcfg file either. > pppd(8) documents it as > > ipv6 <local_interface_identifier>,<remote_interface_identifier> > > and that's what it is. These are input values for IPV6CP, which doesn't > negotiate addresses or routing. That's supposed to be configured the > same way as for any other IPv6 link: Using SLAAC and DHCPv6. Which > makes IPv6 over PPP pretty different from IPv4 over PPP, but exactly the > same as IPv6 over anything else. > > The negotiated interface identifiers will be combined with fe80::/64 to > create link local addresses and with any on-link prefixes advertised in > RAs. > > There is no IPv6 default route option either AFAIK. But I believe it > would make sense to offer this as an alternatve in NM for cases where > the peer doesn't send any RA. It is a pretty common use case.
Does that mean that I can't do what I need as things stand? Or do I need to set up DHCPv6? If that's the case, there's no MAC address to key the address on. Is it not possible to manually set a route? Sorry about this, David _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
