I'm pretty sure IPv6 forwarding and accepting routing advertisements will be a necessity going forward. At the current time I don't know of any other way to dynamically find the default route in IPv6, necessary for end user gateways on consumer ISPs. Even using DHCPv6 your default gateway is found only via routing advertisements, and they have added the Prefix Delegation option to DHCPv6 to provide end user gateways with their address space, DHCP will take care of providing the ISP their forwarding information at that point.
This is all based on what I've seen discussed and read myself, if I've misunderstood something speak up. On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Simon Comeau Martel <si...@comeau.info> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Paul de Weerd <we...@weirdnet.nl> wrote: > >> You received a /64 for your router interface ? Or are you in a /64 >> subnet with other customers ? The setup sounds weird to me. To what >> address is your ISP forwarding that /56 ? >> > > Yeah, it's a bit strange. But it's their IPv6 beta; very few customers are > in it right now. I guess they won't give so much address space in the long > run. Right now, they give a /64 subnet to everyone in the beta, and, if you > tell them you will use a router (that's the case for everyone except those > who only have one PC connected directly to their ADSL modem), they also give > you a /56 subnet. They are all publicly routable IPv6 addresses. > > >> >> | Would I need to configure two OpenBSD boxes? One establishing the PPPOE >> | connection to my ISP with autoconf, and the other one with rtadvd >> running. >> | (With static routes between the two OpenBSD boxes). That would be >> somewhat >> | overkill... >> >> That would still require forwarding on the machine doing autoconf... >> > > That's right. I typed to fast. > > -- > Simon Comeau Martel > si...@comeau.info > https://comeau.info
