IPv6

A dual stack (IPv4+IPv6) PPPoE service is provided by eircom on a trial basis.  It is activated in the same way as standard IPv4 PPPoE.

root@voyage:/etc/ppp/peers# ls

MPN-UK eircom eircom-ipv6

Add ipv6 to the end of the PPP peer config file.

root@voyage:/etc/ppp/peers# cat eircom-ipv6

user test1@ipv6.eircom.net

pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1452"

noipdefault

usepeerdns

defaultroute

hide-password

lcp-echo-interval 20

lcp-echo-failure 3

connect /bin/true

noauth

persist

mtu 1492

noaccomp

default-asyncmap

plugin rp-pppoe.so eth0

user “test1"

ipparam eircom-ipv6

+ipv6

Start the PPP session

root@voyage:~# pon eircom-ipv6

View the interface status

root@voyage:/etc/ppp/peers# ifconfig ppp2

ppp2      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol

          inet addr:xx.xx.xx.xx  P-t-P:159.134.191.151  Mask:255.255.255.255

          inet6 addr: 2001:bb0:dd0:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx:xxx/64 Scope:Global

          inet6 addr: fe80::2482:3cac:a65d:c664/10 Scope:Link

          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1

          RX packets:17 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

          RX bytes:1082 (1.0 KiB)  TX bytes:130 (130.0 B)