Evaggelos Balaskas - System Engineer

Although it feels really lonely … not a lot content yet.

All you need is an ISP that gives you an IPv6 address space, pppd and some free time !

You need to find out that your CPE can work like a modem so that PPPoE can pass through.

Point-to-Point Protocol Daemon

/etc/ppp/peers/ipv6

+ipv6 ipv6cp-use-ipaddr
noip
-chap
defaultroute
usepeerdns
mtu 1492
# debugging
debug
dump
# authentication
name “USERNAME@DOMAIN.gr”
hide-password
noauth
# device
plugin rp-pppoe.so
eth0

The noip means no IPv4 ip
+ipv6 means IPv6

” If the ipv6cp-use-ipaddr option is given, the local identifier is the local IPv4 address “

You should replace the USERNAME & DOMAIN according your credentials.

you need to edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets to add your password for your account:

USERNAME@DOMAIN.gr * PASSWORD

ip6tables

/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules

*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p ipv6-icmp -j ACCEPT
COMMIT

Be aware that IPv6 will give/configure your network device, through ICMPv6 router advertisements, so you MUST fix your firewall

IPv6 DNS

If your ISP doesnt provide you with IPv6 DNS servers, edit your /etc/resolv.conf to add opendns servers:

2620:0:ccc::2

2620:0:ccd::2

Connect

# pon ipv6

Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.7
pppd options in effect:
debug # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
dump # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
plugin rp-pppoe.so # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
noauth # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
-chap # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
name USERNAME@DOMAIN.gr # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
eth0 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
eth0 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
asyncmap 0 # (from /etc/ppp/options)
mtu 1492 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
lcp-echo-failure 4 # (from /etc/ppp/options)
lcp-echo-interval 30 # (from /etc/ppp/options)
hide-password # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
noip # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
defaultroute # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
proxyarp # (from /etc/ppp/options)
usepeerdns # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
+ipv6 # (from /etc/ppp/peers/ipv6)
noipx # (from /etc/ppp/options)

Networking

# clear ; ip -6 a && ip -6 r

the result:

1: lo: mtu 65536
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: ppp0: mtu 1492 qlen 3
inet6 2a02:580:31a:0:744e:f2f1:bc63:dbdd/64 scope global mngtmpaddr dynamic
valid_lft 3465sec preferred_lft 2865sec
inet6 fe80::744e:f2f1:bc63:dbdd/10 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2a02:580:31a::/64 dev ppp0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 3464sec
fe80::/10 dev ppp0 metric 1
fe80::/10 dev ppp0 proto kernel metric 256
default via fe80::90:1a00:1a0:80be dev ppp0 proto ra metric 1024 expires 1664sec

Verify

http://ipv6-test.com/ipv6-test