On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Hugo Trippaers < htrippa...@schubergphilis.com> wrote:
> Side note, but where are we going to do development? I think we should get > our work in a feature branch as soon as possible so we can all contribute > to the development. > > Sheng, can you push any work you have done to a branch? I'll check and see > if I need to commit any of my changes then. > We'd like to have the work based on Chiradeep's network refactor branch, but currently we're waiting for Javelin to be merged. And I am dong some PoC right now, so no code is written so far. I just found it's not that straightforward to get the dnsmasq work as we thought. We need DUID from client(not MAC) to hand out ipv6 addresses, but I am not sure if that's something we can know from mgmt server side. --Sheng > > Cheers, > > Hugo > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Kinsella [mailto:j...@stratosec.co] > Sent: vrijdag 11 januari 2013 19:50 > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: [ASFCS41] IPv6 Support > > > On Jan 10, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Sheng Yang <sh...@yasker.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:57 PM, John Kinsella <j...@stratosec.co> wrote: > >> From a quick glance at it's man page, looks like it can do v4 and v6 > >> leases at the same time... > > You mean dhcpd? > > > > No, dnsmasq looked like it could... > > > I am exploring all the possibility right now. > > > > Currently dnsmasq in our systemvm doesn't support DHCPv6, so we would > > either update to a newer version dnsmasq, or using other dhcp server(e.g. > > dhcpd) on DHCPv6. > > > > But replacing the dhcp server is a big work, all the configuration > > need to be rewritten. Regarding dhcpd, I haven't figured out how much > > effort we need to spend if we want to switch. > > > > There is one possible solution for this release: say, using dhcpd only > > for IPv6, to reduce our effort of introducing IPv6(if it's easier than > > moving to dhcpd). And then we can make the choice in the later release. > > > > John, do you have some experiences can share regarding dhcpd? > > > > Also, regarding your problem, have you used cloudstack to distribute > > IP? I don't think we support leasing on two /28s in advance network now? > > So, in my lab env I've made a few changes to the server and UI to allow > multiple IP blocks in basic network (haven't tried in advanced yet), then > additionally I'm passing a netmask down to the agent, then that's passed > through to dhcp_entry.sh, and then into edithosts.sh, which I've updated to > support dhcpd. The one thing I wanted to do but haven't is to update > edithosts.sh to support both dnsmasq as well as dhcpd. > > Note: this was done in-house without community involvement as I didn't > expect general interest in this, but I'm happy to use experience gained to > write similar support in the ASF tree. > > Johh >
