[lxc-users] LXD Bridged IPv6

Johan Jonkers johan at seecr.nl
Tue Apr 26 12:41:34 UTC 2016


Hi,

I had to set ndp_proxy on my bridge(with sysctl) as well as put in ndp 
proxy's on the host running the containers, like:

$ ip -6 neigh add proxy <IPv6 container> dev eth0

where eth0 is the external nic of the host.

Hope that helps!

Johan

On 25/04/16 14:30, Nick Falcone wrote:
> root at test9001:~# ip -6 r
> 2604:a880:0:1010::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  expires
> 3434sec pref medium
> fe80::/64 dev eth0  proto kernel  metric 256  pref medium
> default via fe80::684e:dcff:feae:fd61 dev eth0  proto ra  metric 1024
> expires 1634sec hoplimit 64 pref medium
>
>
> root at test9001:~# default via fe80::1 dev eth0  metric 1024  pref medium
>
>
> after adding the route you suggested I still get:
> ip -6 route del default
> ip -6 route add default via fe80::1 dev eth0
>  From 2604:a880:0:1010:216:3eff:fe87:ff20 icmp_seq=15 Destination
> unreachable: Address unreachable
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016, at 07:25 AM, Wojciech Arabczyk wrote:
>> What are your route settings in the container?
>> ip -6 route show
>>
>> Have you tried adding the generic default route via:
>> ip -6 route add default via fe80::1 dev eth0
>> on the container itself?
>>
>> On 25 April 2016 at 13:11, Nick Falcone <nick at nfalcone.net> wrote:
>>> In my sysctl.conf I have:
>>>
>>> net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
>>> net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
>>>
>>>
>>> and just to double check
>>>
>>> root at lxdtest:~# sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward
>>> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
>>> root at lxdtest:~# sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding
>>> net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016, at 03:44 AM, Wojciech Arabczyk wrote:
>>>> Are you sure, you have enabled ipv6 forwarding via sysctl?
>>>>
>>>> On 22 April 2016 at 18:10, Nick Falcone <nick at nfalcone.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hello
>>>>>
>>>>> I have been banging my head up against a wall for a few days now trying
>>>>> to get IPv6 to work across my bridged interface for my containers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have tried different VPS and dedicated servers as well as versions of
>>>>> Ubuntu 14.04, 15.10, and 16.04 to get this working.  The latest test all
>>>>> this info is from an Ubuntu 16.04 with the included version of LXD.
>>>>>
>>>>> First I install and run lxd init, I configure the bridge like so.
>>>>>
>>>>> lxdbr0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr fe:82:af:f0:5d:ce
>>>>>            inet addr:10.195.87.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>>            inet6 addr: 2604:a880:0:1010::623:2/64 Scope:Global
>>>>>            inet6 addr: fe80::40c6:84ff:fe18:22fb/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>>>            RX packets:294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>            TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>>>            RX bytes:21612 (21.6 KB)  TX bytes:2127 (2.1 KB)
>>>>>
>>>>> This is my host information too
>>>>>
>>>>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 04:01:d4:50:c4:01
>>>>>            inet addr:162.243.200.170  Bcast:162.243.200.255
>>>>>            Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>>            inet6 addr: fe80::601:d4ff:fe50:c401/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>            inet6 addr: 2604:a880:0:1010::623:1/64 Scope:Global
>>>>>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>>>            RX packets:76258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>            TX packets:8187 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>>>            RX bytes:111074998 (111.0 MB)  TX bytes:1230729 (1.2 MB)
>>>>>
>>>>> I launch and enter the first container it has this info:
>>>>>
>>>>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:3e:87:ff:20
>>>>>            inet addr:10.195.87.69  Bcast:10.195.87.255
>>>>>            Mask:255.255.255.0
>>>>>            inet6 addr: 2604:a880:0:1010:216:3eff:fe87:ff20/64
>>>>>            Scope:Global
>>>>>            inet6 addr: fe80::216:3eff:fe87:ff20/64 Scope:Link
>>>>>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>>>>            RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>>            TX packets:294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>>>>            RX bytes:2175 (2.1 KB)  TX bytes:25728 (25.7 KB)
>>>>>
>>>>> so here I can see slaac is successful, but I cannot ping6
>>>>> 2604:a880:0:1010::623:1 (the host ipv6), I cannot ping google's public
>>>>> dns ipv6 either.  I CAN successfully ping6 2604:a880:0:1010::623:2 my
>>>>> bridge public IPv6.
>>>>>
>>>>> Seems like a routing issue, so on the host I add:
>>>>> ip -6 route add 2604:a880:0:1010:216:3eff:fe87:ff20 dev lxdbr0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Still not able to ping6 out.  As a side note IPv4 works great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Am I missing something here? I cannot seem to find a lot of docs on this
>>>>> small part.  I thought to look at the demo containers on
>>>>> https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/try-it/ but am unable to ping6 out on
>>>>> those, is this just a limitation?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help in advance, would really like to use lxd for a
>>>>> project.  Also I do not care to redact these real IPs, they belong to a
>>>>> box only used for getting this working then will be destroyed.
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