Wido, thank's a lot!

I just had to look into the db. The correctly calculated SLAAC is
already there.

Sorry for the noise!

Stephan

Am Freitag, den 26.03.2021, 20:28 +0100 schrieb Wido den Hollander:
> 
> On 26/03/2021 20:23, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've recently deployed 4.15.0 Advanced Zone with CentOS 8 kvm hosts
> > and
> > classic linux bridges. I do know that CentOS 7 is preferred, but
> > with
> > some initial tweaks here and there, i'ld say it's working quite
> > well.
> > 
> 
> VLAN or VXLAN?

small scale, so VLAN fits very well (just for the record)
> 
> > Currently, I'm trying to use IPv6 on shared networks. I'd learned
> > that
> > IPv6 only does not work, so I switched to IPv6 plus RFC 1918 IPv4
> > natted at the outer gateway. IPv4 is not a requirement, but if it's
> > necessary to add, it doesn't harm.
> > 
> 
> Yes. IPv4 is still needed and RFC1918 is just fine. Cloud-init works 
> over IPv4. It's a lot of work to get rid of IPv4 in CloudStack.
> 
> I'm a big IPv6 fan (wrote a lot of the code in CS), but I didn't
> bother 
> getting rid of IPv4. Not a real use-case for v6-only just yet.
> 
> > The IPv4 addresses of the deployed hosts are provided by the
> > virtual
> > router as expected.
> > 
> > My problem is: I don't get any dhcp6 lease out of the VR. I dug
> > with
> > tcpdump on the host and VR. I see the solicit message arriving, but
> > no
> > answering advertise message. I've tried almost everything at the
> > host:
> > accepting RA, Autoconf, selectively disabling these. Also modifying
> > the
> > dhcpv6 duid as seen on some 4.11 docs didn't change anything.
> > 
> 
> IPv6 does not work with DHCPv6. You should see that when the IPv6
> CIDR 
> is set properly for the shared network in the database that
> CloudStack 
> calculates/generates the IPv6 address the Instance should obtain
> through 
> SLAAC (without privacy addresses!)
> 
> When that works you have security grouping also working. It then
> filters 
> on source addresses from VMs and such.
> 
> We have thousands of VMs connected with IPv6 this way.
> 
> Wido
> 
> > Best case is, that I'm stuck with hosts correctly configured by the
> > router advertisement, but ACS doesn't know about it. So
> > subsequently i
> > can't add records to the respective DNS Zones.
> > 
> > Alternatively, I could skip ACS and add the provable eui-64
> > addresses
> > to the zone, but I'ld like to avoid that.
> > 
> > After a few uneducated peeks into the VR's dnsmasq configuration, I
> > cannot spot any setting for providing dhcp6 leases.
> > 
> > Initially I've deployed the 4.15.0 systemvmtemplate downloaded from
> > http://download.cloudstack.org/systemvm/4.15/
> > Right now, I've switched to the 4.15.1 from the same location, but
> > that
> > didn't change anything.
> > 
> > I've also tried switching the Zone from internal DNS to external
> > DNS
> > and vice versa (these are identical, except the internal DNS is
> > also
> > equipped with the respective IPv6 addresses, which obviously cannot
> > be
> > added to the external DNS). That didn't change anything either.
> > 
> > So, I'ld like to ask for any advise.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > Stephan
> > 
> > 

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