PPPoE/v6 Administrator's Guide

IPv6 Support for PPP

Overview

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NOTE All the existing IPv4 options work with IPv6 as well. IPv4 VJ

compression and decompression options do not work with IPv6.

For information on conﬁguring and using PPP, see Installing and

Administering PPP, available at

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html/#HP-UX%20LAN.

Neighbor Discovery for IPv6

rtradvd, the router advertisement daemon for IPv6, implements router

functionality as speciﬁed in RFC 2461- Neighbor Discovery for IP Version

6. The daemon listens to router solicitation and sends router

advertisement messages on demand and periodically, as described in the

noipv6 Specify this option to disable IPV6CP

negotiation. No IPv6 datagram will pass

through the link. Use this option when you

do not want to negotiate IPV6CP messages

sent by a peer pppd.

ipv6 local-fid,

remote-ifid

Specify two 64-bit interface identiﬁers

separated by a comma, the interface

identiﬁer of the local machine, and the

expected interface identiﬁer of the remote

machine. Both the interface identiﬁers are

optional. However, you need to specify the

remote interface identiﬁer, if the auto

option is speciﬁed.

IP Options

need-ip6-ifid Specify this option to obtain a 64-bit IPv6

interface identiﬁer assigned by the peer for

local use.

rfc2472-ifid-neg Specify this option if you do not want to

send NAK to an option for which you have

already sent a NAK while processing the

previous IPV6CP conﬁguration options.

Table 5-1 New Command-Line Options (Continued)

Option Description