Hi Wido,

Can you explain why “DHCPv6 as much as possible as that's not really the 
intended use-case” it’s not intended use-case?


On 2021/07/15 09:31:26, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: 
> 
> 
> Op 14-07-2021 om 16:44 schreef Hean Seng:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I replied in another thread, i think do not need implement BGP or OSPF, 
> > that would be complicated .
> > 
> > We only need assign  IPv6 's /64 prefix to Virtual Router (VR) in NAT 
> > zone, and the VR responsible to deliver single IPv6 to VM via DHCP6.
> > 
> > In VR, you need to have Default IPv6 route to  Physical Router's /48. IP 
> > as IPv6 Gateway.  Thens should be done .
> > 
> > Example :
> > Physical Router Interface
> >   IPv6 IP : 2000:aaaa::1/48
> > 
> > Cloudstack  virtual router : 2000:aaaa:200:201::1/64 with default ipv6 
> > route to router ip 2000:aaaa::1
> > and Clodustack Virtual router dhcp allocate IP to VM , and  VM will have 
> > default route to VR. IPv6 2000:aaaa:200:201::1
> > 
> > So in cloudstack need to allow  user to enter ,  IPv6 gwateway , and 
> > the  /48 Ipv6 prefix , then it will self allocate the /64 ip to the VR , 
> > and maintain make sure not ovelap allocation
> > 
> > 
> 
> But NAT is truly not the solution with IPv6. IPv6 is supposed to be 
> routable. In addition you should avoid DHCPv6 as much as possible as 
> that's not really the intended use-case for address allocation with IPv6.
> 
> In order to route an /48 IPv6 subnet to the VR you have a few possibilities:
> 
> - Static route from the upperlying routers which are outside of CloudStack
> - BGP
> - OSPFv3 (broken in most cases!)
> - DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
> 
> BGP and/or Static routes are still the best bet here.
> 
> So what you do is that you tell CloudStack that you will route 
> 2001:db8::/48 to the VR, the VR can then use that to split it up into 
> multiple /64 subnets going towards the instances:
> 
> - 2001:db8::/64
> - 2001:db8:1::/64
> - 2001:db8:2::/64
> ...
> - 2001:db8:f::/64
> 
> And go on.
> 
> In case of BGP you indeed have to tell the VR a few things:
> 
> - It's own AS number
> - The peer's address(es)
> 
> With FRR you can simply say:
> 
> neighbor 2001:db8:4fa::179 remote-as external
> 
> The /48 you need to have at the VR anyway in case of either a static 
> route or BGP.
> 
> We just need to add a NullRoute on the VR for that /48 so that traffic 
> will not be routed to the upper gateway in case of the VR can't find a 
> route.
> 
> Wido
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 8:55 PM Alex Mattioli 
> > <alex.matti...@shapeblue.com <mailto:alex.matti...@shapeblue.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi Wido,
> >     That's pretty much in line with our thoughts, thanks for the input. 
> >     I believe we agree on the following points then:
> > 
> >     - FRR with BGP (no OSPF)
> >     - Route /48 (or/56) down to the VR
> >     - /64 per network
> >     - SLACC for IP addressing
> > 
> >     I believe the next big question is then "on which level of ACS do we
> >     manage AS numbers?".  I see two options:
> >     1) Private AS number on a per-zone basis
> >     2) Root Admin assigned AS number on a domain/account basis
> >     3) End-user driven AS number on a per network basis (for bring your
> >     own AS and IP scenario)
> > 
> >     Thoughts?
> > 
> >     Cheers
> >     Alex
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     -----Original Message-----
> >     From: Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl <mailto:w...@widodh.nl>>
> >     Sent: 13 July 2021 15:08
> >     To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org <mailto:dev@cloudstack.apache.org>;
> >     Alex Mattioli <alex.matti...@shapeblue.com
> >     <mailto:alex.matti...@shapeblue.com>>
> >     Cc: Wei Zhou <wei.z...@shapeblue.com
> >     <mailto:wei.z...@shapeblue.com>>; Rohit Yadav
> >     <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com <mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>>;
> >     Gabriel Beims Bräscher <gabr...@pcextreme.nl
> >     <mailto:gabr...@pcextreme.nl>>
> >     Subject: Re: IPV6 in Isolated/VPC networks
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >     On 7/7/21 1:16 PM, Alex Mattioli wrote:
> >      > Hi all,
> >      > @Wei Zhou<mailto:wei.z...@shapeblue.com
> >     <mailto:wei.z...@shapeblue.com>> @Rohit
> >     Yadav<mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com
> >     <mailto:rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com>> and myself are investigating how
> >     to enable IPV6 support on Isolated and VPC networks and would like
> >     your input on it.
> >      > At the moment we are looking at implementing FRR with BGP (and
> >     possibly OSPF) on the ACS VR.
> >      >
> >      > We are looking for requirements, recommendations, ideas, rants,
> >     etc...etc...
> >      >
> > 
> >     Ok! Here we go.
> > 
> >     I think that you mean that the VR will actually route the IPv6
> >     traffic and for that you need to have a way of getting a subnet
> >     routed to the VR.
> > 
> >     BGP is probably you best bet here. Although OSPFv3 technically
> >     supports this it is very badly implemented in Frr for example.
> > 
> >     Now FRR is a very good router and one of the fancy features it
> >     supports is BGP Unnumered. This allows for auto configuration of BGP
> >     over a L2 network when both sides are sending Router Advertisements.
> >     This is very easy for flexible BGP configurations where both sides
> >     have dynamic IPs.
> > 
> >     What you want to do is that you get a /56, /48 or something which is
> >      >/64 bits routed to the VR.
> > 
> >     Now you can sub-segment this into separate /64 subnets. You don't
> >     want to go smaller then a /64 is that prevents you from using SLAAC
> >     for IPv6 address configuration. This is how it works for Shared
> >     Networks now in Basic and Advanced Zones.
> > 
> >     FRR can now also send out the Router Advertisements on the downlinks
> >     sending out:
> > 
> >     - DNS servers
> >     - DNS domain
> >     - Prefix (/64) to be used
> > 
> >     There is no need for DHCPv6. You can calculate the IPv6 address the
> >     VM will obtain by using the MAC and the prefix.
> > 
> >     So in short:
> > 
> >     - Using BGP you routed a /48 to the VR
> >     - Now you split this into /64 subnets towards the isolated networks
> > 
> >     Wido
> > 
> >      > Alex Mattioli
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Regards,
> > Hean Seng
> 

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