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Jun 8 2020

richardpowellus awarded T2279: Router resolves as 127.0.1.1 when using Router's Recursive DNS a Like token.
Jun 8 2020, 7:01 PM · VyOS 1.3 Equuleus (1.3.7), VyOS 1.4 Sagitta

Jun 5 2020

richardpowellus added a comment to T421: Add Pv6 prefix delegation support.

I seem to have figured out my problem. It seems like setting "set interfaces ethernet eth1 dhcpv6-options prefix-delegation length 60" is not working (eth1 is my WAN interface that's connected directly to my cable modem in bridge mode).

Jun 5 2020, 9:46 PM · VyOS 1.3 Equuleus (1.3.0-epa1)
richardpowellus added a comment to T421: Add Pv6 prefix delegation support.
In T421#66055, @gadams wrote:

@dsummers I have been able to get the current nightly builds to work on Comcast Business, which is delivered via ethernet. In this particular case, there are some unfortunate gotchas to keep in mind, but no modification of VyOS is currently needed, at least in my case. Very cool!

For anyone else who comes across this (I have talked to a couple folks outside of this task, as well), here are the gotchas, the second one of which is Comcast-specific:

  • You currently need to enable getting an IPv6 address on the ethernet interface, even though that's technically not required other than by the config syntax. Using parameters-only will prevent it from working, since WIDE dhcp6c will interpret that to mean that you also don't want delegated adresses.

In my experience, this causes only some small issues, but not failure. I am drafting a proposal to fix it, but it's slightly more complex than I guessed.

  • You need to know that while the Comcast cablemodem receives a /56 from the network to delegate to you, it carves off the first (sla-id 0) /64 of that for the link between it and your router, and then only delegates out of the highest (/56 4-bit sla-id f) /60 to your router. This is odd, and I don't know why they do it that way. So, you need to know that you'll be getting a /60 delegated to you, and that you should use 4-bit SLAs.

I had to figure this out by looking at the DHCPv6 conversation on the wire some time ago.

The config syntax could help a lot here, but this seems to be limited a bit by WIDE dhcp6c's conf options.

In any event, here's a working config I'm using (well, simplified, but still enough to make it work):

interfaces {
    ...
    ethernet eth3 {
        address 10.1.11.3/24
        address dhcpv6
        description OUTSIDE-v6
        dhcpv6-options {
            prefix-delegation {
                interface br0 {
                    address 1
                    sla-id 1
                    sla-len 4
                }
                interface eth2.4 {
                    address 1
                    sla-id 4
                    sla-len 4
                }
                interface eth2.6 {
                    address 1
                    sla-id 6
                    sla-len 4
                }
            }
        }
        ...
    }
    ....
}
...
    router-advert {
        interface br0 {
            name-server 2603:....
            name-server 2603:....
            prefix ::/64 {
                valid-lifetime 2592000
            }
        }
    .... and so on for the other interfaces ...

(The address 1 bits aren't strictly necessary, but I like my routers having easily recignizable addresses when I'm looking over traffic flows and routes and so on.)

Happy v6 surfing!

Jun 5 2020, 8:27 PM · VyOS 1.3 Equuleus (1.3.0-epa1)

May 3 2020

richardpowellus reopened T103: DHCP server prepends shared network name to hostnames as "Open".

This issue seems to still be reproducing on static mappings with 1.2.5. I have noticed that the issue is fixed for non static mapping DHCP clients but all my clients who are getting assigned their IPs via static mappings are still getting their hostnames prefixed with LAN_ (LAN being my shared network name).

May 3 2020, 11:59 PM · VyOS 1.2 Crux (VyOS 1.2.6)