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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:35:54 +0200
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From: Anders Hagman <anders.hagman@netplex.se>
Subject: Multi_af and ipv6
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Hej

>On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 04:50:24PM -0700, Lars Eggert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > could someone with more knowledge of the tun device please take a look
> > at the code around line 387 in net/if_tun.c? It looks like tunoutput()
> > drops all packets here that aren't of the AF_INET family - most notably,
> > it drops IPv6 packets.
> >
> > We hacked around this with the simple fix below, but I'm not sure if
> > there are any drawbacks...
> >
>[clip]
>
>Is there a specific reason why you are not using the "multi-af" mode?
>IPv6 works just nicely with /usr/sbin/ppp (PPPoE), which uses if_tun in
>"multi-af" mode.

As a plain user using ppp and tun, how do I turn on multi_af mode?
I want to use ipv6 on tty/ppp-lines on FreeBSD acting as a router for
an ipv6 course.

NetBSD has support for ipv6 on pppd. Is it coming for FreeBSD?

Regards


MVH

/Anders

Anders Hagman
Netplex AB, 070 370 03 95


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