[Gllug] IPv6 allocation options

[Nix]

On 18 Jan 2011, John Edwards stated:

> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 09:25:39AM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> The biggest is probably that no consumer-level ADSL routers support IPv6
>> natively: you have to set up a tunnel, which is both inefficient and
>> highly unlikely to fly for common-or-garden users. Router manufacturers
>> are finally actually considering maybe making IPv6 work, but are still
>> arguing about how to get the IP address and so on onto the router (some
>> are talking about DHCPv6, others are saying that's a disgusting hack...)
>
> Well as most ADSL systems in the world use PPPoA (PPP over ATM) or
> PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet) I suspect that extending PPP to use IPv6
> would be the simplest thing.

Indeed, and as you point out it has been done. However, that's not
enough for some people: they demand that rather than PPP giving the ADSL
router the endpoint address and so on, DHCPv6 be used instead. To
describe DHCPv6 as 'appalling' is to understate the case greatly :(
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