[systemd-devel] networkd: IPv6 prefix delegation not updated when prefix changes

Mon Apr 13 17:04:26 UTC 2020

13.04.2020 18:26, Kevin P. Fleming пишет:
> This is a bit tricky, since RAs and prefix delegation are not really
> related. What you have described is proper behavior on the 'upstream'
> link side; when networkd sees the RA with the new prefix, and the
> lifetime of the old prefix set to zero, it properly adjusts that link
> to use the new prefix.
> 
> What it can't do is trigger a new prefix delegation request as a
> result, because they are not really related. Commonly, the link used
> between the router which asks for the delegation and the router which
> provides it uses a prefix which is totally unrelated to the delegated
> prefix, and so changes to the prefix on that inter-router link don't
> affect the delegation at all.
> 

Huh? You seem to misunderstand configuration. End host networkd knows
nothing about prefix delegation, it gets its configuration from CPE router.

> What you're experiencing here is a delegation which has expired
> earlier than the DHCPv6 server claimed that it would expire, which is
> really unfriendly.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:18 AM Tobias Brink <tobias.brink at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello systemd devs and users,
>>
>> my internet connection is established by a router provided by my ISP (a
>> Fritz Box to be precise). It can hand out delegated IPv6 prefixes via
>> DHCPv6. I use a Linux box in between this router and my internal network
>> to provide additional firewalling, OpenVPN, etc. For this, I request an
>> IPv6 prefix for the internal network using networkd. This works. But the
>> provider (like most non-business offerings) resets the public IPv4
>> address and IPv6 prefix from time to time. The prefix delegation on my
>> Linux box is not updated at this point and the old delegated prefix
>> expires. Only "networkctl reconfigure" on the external interface leads
>> to a new prefix delegation being obtained. Routes for the old prefixes,
>> though, remain indefinitely, potentially causing trouble.
>>
>> I do believe this to be a problem with networkd, but I'm new to IPv6 and
>> wanted to ask here first if there's a problem with my configuration or
>> if the ISP-provided router is maybe buggy instead. If I should instead
>> open an issue on GitHub or if more information is needed, please tell
>> me.
>>
>> All details below:
>>
>> Setup
>> =====
>>
>> I use the current Debian stable (buster) with systemd from backports
>> (systemd --version: "systemd 244 (244.3-1~bpo10+1)"). I also quickly
>> tried compiling and running networkd from git master, but the issue
>> seems to remain unfixed.
>>
>> Configuration:
>>
>> #/etc/systemd/network/10-enp3s0.network <- the "external" interface
>>
>> [Match]
>> Name=enp3s0
>>
>> [Network]
>> Address=<some RFC1918 IPv4 address>
>> Gateway=<IPv4 gateway>
>> Address=fdxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx::1/64
>> IPv6AcceptRA=yes
>> DHCP=ipv6
>> IPv6PrivacyExtensions=true
>>
>> [DHCPv6]
>> # Note: usually, the ISP router is configured to only set the "Other
>> # Configuration" flag. I also tried changing it to set the "Managed"
>> # flag in router advertisements, but with the setting below, there
>> # is no difference in the behavior of networkd.
>> ForceDHCPv6PDOtherInformation=yes
>>
>>
>> #/etc/systemd/network/20-br0.network <- the "internal" interface
>>
>> [Match]
>> Name=br0
>>
>> [Network]
>> Address=<some RFC1918 IPv4 address>
>> Address=fdxx:xxxx:xxxx:yyyy::1/64
>> IPv6PrefixDelegation=yes
>>
>> [IPv6PrefixDelegation]
>> Managed=yes
>> OtherInformation=yes
>> RouterLifetimeSec=7200
>> EmitDNS=yes
>> DNS=fdxx:xxxx:xxxx:yyyy::1
>> DNSLifetimeSec=7200
>>
>> [IPv6Prefix]
>> Prefix=fdxx:xxxx:xxxx:yyyy::/64
>> ValidLifetimeSec=7200
>> PreferredLifetimeSec=3600
>>
>>
>> The issue
>> =========
>>
>> This is an example observed with the help of tcpdump and log files. I
>> still have this data if more details are needed.
>>
>> For the sake of the example, let's say the public IPv6 prefix was
>> 2001:1:0:0::/56 before resetting the internet connection and
>> 2001:2:0:0::/56 after.
>>
>> 0) enps0 has a prefix of 2001:1:0:0::/64 (obtained via router
>>    advertisement); br0 a prefix 2001:1:0:1::/64 (obtained via DHCPv6
>>    prefix delegation).
>>
>> 1) Internet connection is reset. The ISP-provided router sends a router
>>    advertisement with a new IPv6 prefix 2001:2:0:0::/64 with a preferred
>>    lifetime of 3600 and the old prefix 2001:1:0:0::/64 with a preferred
>>    lifetime of 0. The "Other Configuration" flag is set.
>>
>> 2) networkd updates enp3s0 with this prefix. No DHCPv6 traffic is
>>    triggered. The configuration of br0 remains unchanged. The old prefix
>>    is no longer accepted by the ISP and IPv6 connectivity is lost for
>>    the internal network.
>>
>> 3) A while later, the ISP-provided router sends a new router
>>    advertisement, this time only containing the new IPv6 prefix
>>    2001:2:0:0::/64. This triggers no changes in networkd.
>>
>> 4) Still a bit later, networkd wants to renew the 2001:1:0:1::/64 prefix
>>    of br0 and sends a DHCPv6 Renew. The ISP-provided router responds
>>    with "NoBindig", status message "prefix mismatch" (changing later to
>>    "iapd not found"), which is of course correct. networkd, though, just
>>    keeps retrying to renew that prefix without success.
>>
>> At that point I can use "networkctl reconfigure enp3s0". This (almost)
>> fixes it and br0 obtains (for example) the new, valid prefix
>> 2001:2:0:1::/64. Unfortunately, the routes for the old prefix
>> (2001:1:0:1::/64) still remain, even if this prefix no longer "belongs"
>> to me.
>>
>>
>> What I would have expected
>> ==========================
>>
>> Without being too familiar with the relevant RFCs, I would have thought
>> that networkd would trigger a DHCPv6 Solicit/Renew for the delegated prefixes
>> after step (1), updating the configuration as needed.
>>
>> At the very least, in step (4), I would have thought that after being
>> unsuccessful in renewing the prefix, networkd would try to obtain a new
>> one. RFC 8415 (Sec. 18.2.10.1) seems to agree as far as I understand:
>> Upon a NoBinding response for any delegated prefix, the client should
>> send a Request.
>>
>> I would also think that routes for which a NoBinding reponse was
>> received should be removed.
>>
>> Additionally, it would be nice if "networkctl status <iface>" would
>> report the delegated prefixes of the interface. Currently, I can only
>> find them in the logs.
>>
>>
>> =====
>>
>>
>> As an aside, thanks for systemd and systemd-networkd. Apart from the
>> issue above, they have made my life much simpler!
>>
>> Tobias
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