2014-07-28

IPv6 in Cyprus

I plugged a FireBrick in to the Thomson DSL router in a villa in cyprus, and it got PPP and a prefix delegation for IPv6!

This means the Thomson had switched to bridged mode for PPPoE automatically, which is quite impressive.

It then killed the internet on the Thomson, and stopped working. It seems that it kept closing the connection once opened, and LCP term. However, a bit of experimentation found that this was because I was requesting IPv6 prefix delegations for three LANs. Drop to only one LAN and bingo, it connects and stays connected.

What is interesting is that they actually ask for IPv6CP first even - they are offering IPv6. I get a prefix of 2a00:1358:e0f8:af00::/64

I was about to be impressed, until I found that the IPv6 does not actually work. It looks like an announced prefix and looks like it may even get close coming from outside (right ball park response times on last hop), but not actually getting down the DSL line. So close!

Anyway, time to set up IPsec and some real IPs.

28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 pppoe ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0 CY PADI sent on WAN, MTU 1492
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be WAN 0 0 CY PADO accepted MTU 1492 BRAS1.LAT
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be WAN 0 0 CY PADO ignored BRAS3.LAT
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be WAN 0 0 CY PADO ignored BRAS2.LAT
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be WAN 0 0 CY PADS accepted MTU 1492 session 2
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx C021:LCP 01 00 000E ConfReq 05:MAGIC 06 8e:52:04:c8 01:MRU 04 1492
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx C021:LCP 01 01 0012 ConfReq 01:MRU 04 1492 03:AUTH 04 c0:23 05:MAGIC 06 1e:5c:27:7e
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx C021:LCP 02 01 0012 ConfAck 01:MRU 04 1492 03:AUTH 04 c0:23 05:MAGIC 06 1e:5c:27:7e
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx C021:LCP 02 00 000E ConfAck 05:MAGIC 06 8e:52:04:c8 01:MRU 04 1492
28 Jul 2014 09:36:08 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx C023:PAP 01 00 000A 04 75:73:65:72 [user] 00 []
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx C023:PAP 02 00 0005 00 []
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be WAN 0 0 CY PAP pass []
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx 8021:IPCP 01 00 0016 ConfReq 03:IP 06 0.0.0.0 81:DNS1 06 0.0.0.0 83:DNS2 06 0.0.0.0
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx 8021:IPCP 01 01 000A ConfReq 03:IP 06 192.168.219.248
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx 8021:IPCP 02 01 000A ConfAck 03:IP 06 192.168.219.248
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx 8057:IPV6CP 01 01 000E ConfReq 01:I/F 0A 66:00:f1:ff:fe:cc:a3:00
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx 8057:IPV6CP 02 01 000E ConfAck 01:I/F 0A 66:00:f1:ff:fe:cc:a3:00
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx 8021:IPCP 03 00 0016 ConfNak 03:IP 06 93.109.42.104 81:DNS1 06 195.14.130.170 83:DNS2 06 195.14.130.220
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx 8021:IPCP 01 01 0016 ConfReq 03:IP 06 93.109.42.104 81:DNS1 06 195.14.130.170 83:DNS2 06 195.14.130.220
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx 8021:IPCP 02 01 0016 ConfAck 03:IP 06 93.109.42.104 81:DNS1 06 195.14.130.170 83:DNS2 06 195.14.130.220
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Tx 8057:IPV6CP 01 00 000E ConfReq 01:I/F 0A 02:03:97:ff:fe:2c:04:06
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 SYS_IRQ 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY Rx 8057:IPV6CP 02 00 000E ConfAck 01:I/F 0A 02:03:97:ff:fe:2c:04:06
28 Jul 2014 09:36:09 pppoe 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 CY up 93.109.42.104-192.168.219.248
28 Jul 2014 09:36:11 dhcp6c-rx 00:26:44:df:4e:be 0 IA address 2a00:1358:e0f8:af00::

1 comment:

  1. Try and get a local PAYG 3G sim and use that, travelling around Sri Lanka recently that was faster than most of the wifi connections!

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