Kernel mode pppoe and IPnG.

[David Walker]

Hi Stuart.

Thanks for the reply.

On 10/11/2009, Stuart Henderson <stu at spacehopper.org> wrote:
> According to your provider's documents, you need to fetch an
> address via DHCPv6 PD, I don't think this is possible in base
> OpenBSD.

I noticed that about five minutes before I saw your reply (and after I
spent the last couple of days trying).
Cheers.
I did read the faq, I guess I assumed DHCPv6 would be part of base.

I suspect a conscious decision not to write a client.
DHCPv6 seems to be a "necessity" for ISPs to apply current economic
models that differentiate between dynamic hosts and static hosts.

> You /may/ be able to do it with dhcp6c from the wide-dhcpv6
> package. However from looking at the code, I think it might not
> support pppoe yet, I suspect it will require some tweaks to
> support interfaces other than ethernet and IEEE802.11.

My ISP has a thread for this and a few people are reporting success
(OpenBSD plus WIDE plus PPPoE).
They might be installing WIDE from source. I don't know.

> You might like to try asking on misc@ as you're more likely to
> find someone who has already done this there.

Although I'm itching for IPng it would have been experimental only.
I think I'll wait till my ISP starts handing out static addresses.

Best wishes.