dhcpv6 on ppp interface not working: Unsupported device type

[wax g.]

Must be the firewall impacting wide-dhcpv6, i'll give it another shot.

Thx

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 8:02 AM wax g. <waxitau at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the lead Bjørn. I'll try with the patch.
>
> I did try wide dhcpv6 but it could not go beyond sending solicit messages
> despite receiving replies (as per tcpdump), which it seemed to ignore.
>
> regards,
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 9:02 PM Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>
>> "wax g." <waxitau at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I'm trying to use isc-dhcp-client to get a global ipv6 address & prefix
>> > delegation (IA_NA & PD) for a ppp interface but get this message
>> instead:
>> >
>> > * Unsupported device type 512 for "ppp0"
>> >
>> > cli# dhclient -6 -P -v -N ppp0
>> >
>> > Versions:
>> > * Tested unsuccessfully  4.4.1 on debian buster.
>> > * Tested unsuccessfully  4.4.2 on debian buster.
>> >
>> > I've seen similar error messages dating from 2009 / 2010 and i thought
>> this
>> > would be solved by now.
>> >
>> > Has anyone been able to make this work using isc-dhcp-client ?
>>
>> There's an old patch here:
>> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/2010-April/011624.html
>>
>> Don't know if it still applies, but it shouldn't be too hard to rebase.
>>
>> The WIDE DHCPv6 client is a pretty good alternative IMHO. At least as
>> packaged by Debian, with a few fixes and new features since the last
>> upstream release in 2008:
>> https://packages.debian.org/buster/wide-dhcpv6-client
>>
>>
>> Bjørn
>>
>
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