From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021203 Description of problem: When attempting to use IPv6 over ppp, pppd complains that the ipv6 keyword is not recognized and refuses to negotiate IPv6 even though the ipv6 parameters and data are in the documentation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add keyword "ipv6" plus a link identifier "::1" to options file 2. Attempt to invoke pppd with those options 3. Note error in syslog ipv6 unrecognized 4. Check man page 5. Note presence of ipv6 parameters Actual Results: pppd failed Expected Results: pppd should have started and negotiated a connection with both IPv4 and IPv6. Additional info: Inspection of the source RPMS reveals that a patch file for the Makefile SHOULD have changed "HAVE_IPv6" from no to yes but didn't. Consequently, pppd was built without IPv6 support. Rebuilding the rpm after modifying the Makefile patch resulted in a pppd build which correctly supports IPv6. This has been verified on RedHat 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0.
Minor correction... My earlier statement... === Inspection of the source RPMS reveals that a patch file for the Makefile SHOULD have changed "HAVE_IPv6" from no to yes but didn't. Consequently, pppd was built without IPv6 support. Rebuilding the rpm after modifying the Makefile patch resulted in a pppd build which correctly supports IPv6. === Should have been.. The patch file "ppp-2.4.1-make.patch" should have changed "#HAVE_INET6=y" to "HAVE_INET6=y". It does not uncomment the enabling statement for IPv6. It NEEDS TO.
Ping pong. Any news on this? :-)
This bug is still open and still exists in Fedora-core-1. It's a simple fix to the patch file and needs fixing. Is there some reason why it hasn't been fixed or why it can't be fixed?
Please try the RPMS at ftp://pentafluge.infradead.org/pub/ppp6
Fixed in FC2 in rpm ppp-2.4.2-1 or newer.
Could you please backport fix to RHEL3. Namely package ppp-2.4.1- 14.1.i386.rpm Thanks, __ Eric