[openstack-dev] [Neutron][IPv6] Neutron IPv6 in Icehouse and further

Maksym Lobur mlobur at mirantis.com
Mon Jun 30 14:54:47 UTC 2014


Many thanks everyone for the feedback

Best regards,
Max Lobur,
OpenStack Developer, Mirantis, Inc.

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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Robert Li (baoli) <baoli at cisco.com> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  There is a patch for radvd https://review.openstack.org/#/c/102648/2 that
> you can use in addition to the devstack patch. You want to make sure that
> ipv6 is enabled and ra accepted with your VM’s image. Both patches are
> under development.
>
>  To use dhcpv6,  the current dhcp agent should be working. However, it
> might be broken due to a recent commit. If you found a Traceback in your
> dhcp agent log complaining about an uninitialized reference to the variable
> ‘mode', you may hit that issue. You can just initialize it to be ‘static’.
> In addition, only recently, dhcp messages maybe dropped before entering the
> VM. Therefore, you might need to disable the ipv6 rules manually by
> “ip6tables –F” after a VM is launched .  Also make sure you are using the
> latest dnsmasq (2.6.8)
>
>  Thanks,
> Robert
>
>   On 6/27/14, 3:47 AM, "Jaume Devesa" <devvesa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>    Hello Maksym,
>
>  last week I had more or less the same questions than you and I
> investigate a little bit... Currently we have the *ipv6_ra_mode *and *ipv6_address_mode
> *in the subnet entity. The way you combine these two values will
> determine how and who will configure your VM´s IPv6 addresses. Not all the
> combinations are possible. This document[1] and the
> *upstream-slaac-support* *spec*[2] provide the possible combinations. Not
> sure which one is more updated...
>
>  If you want to try IPv6 current support, you can use the Baodong Li's
> devstack patch [3], although is still in development. Follow the message
> commit instructions to provide a radvd daemon. That means that there is no
> RA advertiser in Neutron currently. There is a *spec* in review[4] to
> fill this gap.
>
>  The changes for allow DHCPv6 in dnsmasq are in review in this patch[5].
>
>  This is what I found... I hope some IPv6 folks can correct me if this
> information is not accurate enough (or wrong)
>
>
>  [1]:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bojvv9vywsz8sd/IPv6%20Two%20Modes%20v3.0.pdf
> [2]:
> http://docs-draft.openstack.org/43/88043/9/gate/gate-neutron-specs-docs/82c251a/doc/build/html/specs/juno/ipv6-provider-nets-slaac.html
> [3]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/87987
> [4]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/101306/
> [5]: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/70649/
>
>
>
> On 27 June 2014 00:51, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi! I'm waiting for that too...
>>
>>  Currently, I'm running IceHouse with static IPv6 address, with the
>> topology "VLAN Provider Networks" and, to make it easier, I'm counting on
>> the following blueprint:
>>
>>  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/neutron/+spec/ipv6-provider-nets-slaac
>>
>>  ...but, I'm not sure if it will be enough to enable basic IPv6 support
>> (without using Neutron as Instance's default gateway)...
>>
>>  Cheers!
>> Thiago
>>
>>
>>  On 26 June 2014 19:35, Maksym Lobur <mlobur at mirantis.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi Folks,
>>>
>>>  Could you please tell what is the current state of IPv6 in Neutron?
>>> Does it have DHCPv6 working?
>>>
>>>  What is the best point to start hacking from? Devstack stable/icehouse
>>> or maybe some tag? Are there any docs / raw deployment guides?
>>> I see some patches not landed yet [1] ... I assume it won't work without
>>> them, right?
>>>
>>>  Somehow I can't open any of the code reviews from the [2] (Not Found)
>>>
>>>   [1]
>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:openstack/neutron+branch:master+topic:%255E.*%255Cipv6.*,n,z
>>> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/IPv6
>>>
>>>  Best regards,
>>> Max Lobur,
>>> Python Developer, Mirantis, Inc.
>>>
>>>  Mobile: +38 (093) 665 14 28
>>> Skype: max_lobur
>>>
>>>  38, Lenina ave. Kharkov, Ukraine
>>> www.mirantis.com
>>> www.mirantis.ru
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