IPv6 from home

A few years ago I experimented with IPv6 from home; my ISP offered a tunnel that I could reach over IPv4. I got things working reasonably except for that my wireless access points seemed to swallow my router advertisements so I postponed the effort. Incidentally, access points that I subsequently owned had a different surprise where they would swallow certain DHCP responses in a manner happening to exactly fit a bug in a certain version of Linux.

My current ISP offers IPv6 directly and this morning I thought I would get around to taking another look at it. Our home gateway/router runs OpenBSD 5.9 and gets its IP address from our ISP over DHCP. I have now managed to get it to a state where I can ping6 other external machines. However, it starts working only after ifconfig pppoe0 inet6 autoconf and my reading suggests that perhaps routers oughtn't do this, at least not after I someday use sysctl to turn on net.inet6.ip6.forwarding to offer IPv6 internally. For the moment I block IPv6 traffic on the internal-facing interface as I have rather more research to do before allowing it, especially regarding blocking some ICMP: I tread carefully when I know I'm in new waters.

I do actually have a static address assignment from my ISP, perhaps I ought to just set that and see if I can still get to a state where I can ping6. For now I'm still trying to scrape together a clear picture from what I can find out online. It certainly doesn't seem to be as trivial as IPv4.

Scottish independence, again

Nicola Sturgeon is Scotland's First Minister, the leader of the Scottish National Party. Last time we had a Scottish independence referendum she was saying things like, we've made very clear our belief that constitutional referenda are once-in-a-generation events, and in the recent election the SNP lost its overall majority in the Scottish Parliament. So now I read that,

SNP plans to launch a summer initiative for independence will go ahead as outlined in the party's manifesto, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

They really do seem rather one-track. I was hoping that they might focus more on actually trying to run Scotland well but instead they appear to want to bring us another many months of divisive rhetoric and interviews that consist mostly of question-dodging, except this time oil's rather cheaper so that might make their view of an independent Scotland even more implausible. And here I was enjoying finding the news somewhat watchable again these days.