Re: pppoe, dhcpcd v6 and renew

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20171111213219.GA5268%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
Manuel Bouyer  <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>Hello,
>my new DSL provider has an ipv6 setup which requires the client side
>to send a Delegated Prefix request to get the NRA to route the ipv6 block
>to the client.
>I could do this with dhcpcd:
>interface pppoe0
>        noipv6rs
>	ipv6only
>	ia_pd 0
>	ipv6ra_noautoconf
>	nogateway
>	nohook resolv.conf, hostname, ntp.conf
>	noipv4
>
>my router just needs to send a dhcp6 request or rebind, it doesn't need
>to handle the reply (everything is static).
>
>The problem is, if for some reason the pppoe session terminates,
>the kernel will successfully initiates a new one but dhcpcd doens't send
>a rebind, and the ISP stops routing my prefix. I have to manually
>restart dhcpcd to fix this.
>I tried ifwatchd but pppoe doesn't send events in this case.

Perhaps pppoe should send events in thst case?

christos