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author | Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com> | 1999-09-30 19:52:59 +0000 |
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committer | Adi Masputra <adi.masputra@sun.com> | 1999-09-30 19:52:59 +0000 |
commit | a97372213c2609282637224a6dffa948fbb49801 (patch) | |
tree | 637aa44b752bd13550e9dc0dcca8ff97237de40c /README.sol2 | |
parent | ee6a6b64b23a55533cae7325a2530395e8ca3810 (diff) | |
download | ppp-a97372213c2609282637224a6dffa948fbb49801.tar.gz |
Added notes on IPv6 over PPP on Solaris
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diff --git a/README.sol2 b/README.sol2 index 2f4a6f6..a6b181a 100644 --- a/README.sol2 +++ b/README.sol2 @@ -45,6 +45,28 @@ create an /etc/ppp/ip-up script containing something like this: See the man page for ip(7p) for details. +IPv6 Support. +************* + +This version has been tested under Solaris 8 running IPv6. As of now, +interoperability testing has only been done between Solaris machines +in terms of the IPV6 NCP. An additional command line option for the +pppd daemon has been added: ipv6cp-use-persistent + +By default, compilation for IPv6 support is not enabled. Uncomment the +necessary lines in pppd/Makefile.sol2 to enable it. Once done, the +quickest way to get IPv6 running is to add the following somewhere +in the command line option: + + +ipv6 ipv6cp-use-persistent + +The persistent id for the link-local address was added to conform to +RFC 2472; such that if there's an EUI-48 available, use that to make up +the EUI-64. As of now, the Solaris implementation extracts the EUI-48 +id from the Ethernet's MAC address (the ethernet interface needs to +be up). Future works might support other ways of obtaining a unique +yet persistent id, such as EEPROM serial numbers, etc. + 64-bit Support. *************** |