Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
I've been researching this quite a bit today, and have yet to find a manufacturer which explicitly lists IPv6 support. During some more googling, I came across a suggestion of simply running the ADSL router in bridge mode, and leaving all the IP handling to the next system, i.e. a firewall/gateway box. This sounds quite enticing, although it would mean making the firewall/gateway also do the ADSL authentication/login etc. I guess it would be kind of similar to the old days with pppd and all that. This looks as if it might actually be the right approach. When the ADSL box/modem is running as a bridge, it doesn't care whether it's IPv4, -5 or -6, so that's one component out of the loop. The next step is to run pppd+pppoe on the gateway/firewall - AFAICT, it's pretty straight forward, the one thing I can't quite tell is whether pppd will support ipv4 and ipv6 at the same time.
Yes, PPP is multi-protocol; you are not even limited to IP [although routing IPX to your ISP might be pointless ;)]
Thanks Adam - in the meantime I've also confirmed that my provider will happily feed me IPv4 and IPv6 down the same line. I might just play with it this weekend. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (9.0°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org