First steps
There are two ways to configure IPv6 on a Dedibox:
- either your server supports SLAAC (see Dedibox' IPv6 SLAAC to see if it's the case)
- or using a DHCPv6 client
Either way, the first thing to do is to accept ICMPv6 Router Advertisements, this will get you a default route using a link-local IPv6 address:
# ifconfig bce0 inet6 accept_rtadv # grep ^ifconfig_bce0_ipv6 /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_bce0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" # # netstat -rnf inet6 | grep ^default default fe80::be16:65ff:fefb:d23f%bce0 UG bce0
Also it doesn't hurt to start rtsold(8) (it looked like it worked without it though):
# grep ^rtsold /etc/rc.conf rtsold_enable="YES" # /etc/rc.d/rcsold start Starting rtsold.
If your server supports SLAAC then I believe you can stop here. In my case I was unlucky and I had to use DHCPv6.
After some experimentation, I realized that you need to make you DHCP client request Prefix Delegation (PD), otherwise the router won't let you through. This is very loosely defined in Online´s documentation, because they use dhclient -P. But PD doesn't request a normal address, so you also need to requests a Non-temporary Address (NA) for this.
Unfortunately, FreeBSD's dhclient doesn't support IPv6, so you need another one. There are some references on Internet of people using net/dual-dhclient (GitHub) but I can't use this since my IPv4 setup is static.
Using ISC's dhclient from ports (failed)
Then I moved to net/isc-dhcp44-client because it supports IPv6. The first problem here is that it's not clear to me that FreeBSD's rc.conf(5) allows you to use DHCP only for IPv6. After glancing at /etc/network.subr it's not clear to me that the ifconfig_<if>_ipv6 actually support "DHCP" as a parameter but I may be wrong (and I didn't test that far, see below). Some post seems to indicate that's the case, since they use "DHCP" both in $ifconfig_em0 and ifconfig_em0_ipv6.
As explained in Dedibox' /48 IPv6 prefix page, you need to configure your DHCP unique identifier (DUID) in your dhclient.conf(5) file, which is /usr/local/etc/dhclient.conf (given you use dhclient(8) from the package). The default configuration contains some stuff, you can remove it all:
# cat /usr/local/etc/dhclient.conf
interface "bce0" {
# DUID given by Dedibox
# https://console.online.net/en/network/
send dhcp6.client-id 01:23:45:67:89:AB:CD:EF:01:23;
}
Optionally, if you don't want dhclient-script(8) to overwrite resolv.conf(5), you need to create the following file (I hate the fact the path is hard coded but there are worse evils in the world):
# cat /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks
make_resolv_conf() { :; }
Here is what you get:
# /usr/local/sbin/dhclient -6 -d -v bce0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.2
Copyright 2004-2020 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on Socket/bce0
Sending on Socket/bce0
PRC: Soliciting for leases (INIT).
XMT: Forming Solicit, 0 ms elapsed.
XMT: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96
XMT: | X-- Request renew in +3600
XMT: | X-- Request rebind in +5400
XMT: Solicit on bce0, interval 1090ms.
RCV: Advertise message on bce0 from fe80::be16:65ff:fefb:d23f.
RCV: X-- Preference 255.
RCV: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96
RCV: | X-- starts 1591003129
RCV: | X-- t1 - renew +10800
RCV: | X-- t2 - rebind +172800
RCV: | X-- [Options]
RCV: | | X-- IAADDR 2001:aaaa:3bac::1
RCV: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime 54000.
RCV: | | | X-- Max lifetime 86400.
RCV: X-- Server ID: 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4
RCV: Advertisement immediately selected.
PRC: Selecting best advertised lease.
PRC: Considering best lease.
PRC: X-- Initial candidate 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4 (s: 10105, p: 255).
XMT: Forming Request, 0 ms elapsed.
XMT: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96
XMT: | X-- Requested renew +3600
XMT: | X-- Requested rebind +5400
XMT: | | X-- IAADDR 2001:aaaa:3bac::1
XMT: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime +7200
XMT: | | | X-- Max lifetime +7500
XMT: V IA_NA appended.
XMT: Request on bce0, interval 1040ms.
RCV: Reply message on bce0 from fe80::be16:65ff:fefb:d23f.
RCV: X-- Preference 255.
RCV: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96
RCV: | X-- starts 1591003129
RCV: | X-- t1 - renew +10800
RCV: | X-- t2 - rebind +172800
RCV: | X-- [Options]
RCV: | | X-- IAADDR 2001:aaaa:3bac::1
RCV: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime 7200.
RCV: | | | X-- Max lifetime 86400.
RCV: X-- Server ID: 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4
PRC: Bound to lease 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4.
PRC: Renewal event scheduled in 10800 seconds, to run for 162000 seconds.
PRC: Depreference scheduled in 7200 seconds.
PRC: Expiration scheduled in 86400 seconds.
The interface will get an global IPv6 address but as I said above, Online's router won't let you unless request Prefix Delegation PD, so this is pretty useless. You do this with the -P flag but if you read the manual:
-P Enable IPv6 prefix delegation. This implies −6 and also disables the normal address query. See −N to restore it. Multiple prefixes can be requested with multiple −P flags. Note only one requested interface is allowed.
-N Restore normal address query for IPv6. This implies -6. It is used to restore normal operation after using -T or -P. Multiple addresses can be requested with multiple −N flags.
So that's what I did:
# /usr/local/sbin/dhclient -d -v -6 bce0 -P -N Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.2 Copyright 2004-2020 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Listening on Socket/bce0 Sending on Socket/bce0 PRC: Confirming active lease (INIT-REBOOT). XMT: Forming Rebind, 0 ms elapsed. XMT: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96 XMT: | X-- Request renew in +3600 XMT: | X-- Request rebind in +5400 XMT: X-- IA_PD 52:cd:78:96 XMT: | X-- Requested renew +3600 XMT: | X-- Requested rebind +5400 XMT: | | X-- IAPREFIX 2001:aaaa:3bac::/48 XMT: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime +7200 XMT: | | | X-- Max lifetime +7500 XMT: V IA_PD appended. XMT: Rebind on bce0, interval 990ms. RCV: Reply message on bce0 from fe80::be16:65ff:fefb:d23f. RCV: X-- Preference 255. RCV: X-- IA_NA 52:cd:78:96 RCV: | X-- starts 1591559136 RCV: | X-- t1 - renew +10800 RCV: | X-- t2 - rebind +172800 RCV: | X-- [Options] RCV: | | X-- IAADDR 2001:aaaa:3bac::1 RCV: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime 54000. RCV: | | | X-- Max lifetime 86400. RCV: X-- IA_PD 52:cd:78:96 RCV: | X-- starts 1591559136 RCV: | X-- t1 - renew +10800 RCV: | X-- t2 - rebind +172800 RCV: | X-- [Options] RCV: | | X-- IAPREFIX 2001:aaaa:3bac::/48 RCV: | | | X-- Preferred lifetime 7200. RCV: | | | X-- Max lifetime 86400. RCV: X-- Server ID: 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4 PRC: Bound to lease 00:01:00:01:1b:ac:bc:2d:10:60:4b:9b:0a:f4. Prefix REBIND6 old=2001:aaaa:3bac::/48 new=2001:aaaa:3bac::/48 PRC: Renewal event scheduled in 10800 seconds, to run for 162000 seconds. PRC: Depreference scheduled in 7200 seconds. PRC: Expiration scheduled in 86400 seconds.
But then I check my interface but the IPv6 address hadn't been assigned. This is were I threw the towel as I considered I had been too deep in the rabbit whole already.
Theorically I could just have used -P to open the router's gate and then rely on static IPv6 configuration. That would have actually been my favorite solution but I'm not sure FreeBSD's rc.conf(5) would allow this. Actually, it maybe be possible by usng /etc/start_if.bce0; to start /usr/local/sbin/dhclient -6 -P bce0 (and probably remove the ifdisabled inet6 flag on the interface first), but I haven't tried.
Using KAME's dhcp6
As I was wondering about Prefix Delegation and how I could re-use the information I got from the DHCP server to assign IPv6 addresses to my hosts, I came across this post. It's the way it should be: simple and straightforward. dhcp6c requests both PD and NA and in the PD response handler, you tell it how to assign an IPv6 address to the other interfaces. Then rtadvd(8) does the rest.
But I digress and I'm not there yet, I just want an IPv6 for my host. My point is that it's neat. I created a super basic configuration file for dhcp6c:
# cat /usr/local/etc/dhcp6c.conf
interface bce0 {
send ia-na 1;
send ia-pd 1;
send rapid-commit;
};
id-assoc pd 1 {
};
id-assoc na 1 {
};
The attentive reader will notice there's a problem here. Where is the DUID configured? Well it turns out that dhcp6c doesn't allow to configure it by hand... I found this on Google Books (page 469 of IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation):
A DHCPv6 client or server needs its DUID for the protocol operation. The user does not have to configure the ID by hand:
dhcp6canddhcp6sautomatically generate their type 1 DUIDs on their first invocation, and them them in volatile files,/var/db/dhcp6c_duidand/var/db/dhcp6sduid.
So we need to generate /var/db/dhcp6c_duid. Fortunately someone already did the work:
echo 01:23:45:67:89:AB:CD:EF:01:23 | \
awk '{ gsub(":"," "); printf "0: 0a 00 %s\n", $0 }' | \
xxd -r > /var/db/dhcp6c_duid
Let's try it manually:
# dhcp6c -df -c /usr/local/etc/dhcp6c.conf bce0 Jun/07/2020 23:35:12: failed to open /usr/local/etc/dhcp6cctlkey: No such file or directory Jun/07/2020 23:35:12: failed initialize control message authentication Jun/07/2020 23:35:12: skip opening control port Jun/07/2020 23:35:13: Sending Solicit Jun/07/2020 23:35:13: unexpected advertise Jun/07/2020 23:35:13: Sending Request Jun/07/2020 23:35:13: dhcp6c Received REQUEST Jun/07/2020 23:35:13: add an address 2001:aaaa:3bac::1/128 on bce0 # ping6 -qc 1 google.com PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) 2001:aaaa:3bac::1 --> 2a00:1450:4007:811::200e --- google.com ping6 statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 2.047/2.047/2.047/0.000 ms
Let's just enable dhcp6c at boot time:
# grep ^dhcp6 /etc/rc.conf dhcp6c_enable="YES" dhcp6c_interfaces="bce0"
One last thing: if you're using a firewall, be sure to let IPv6 UDP packets on port 546 come in. This is how DHCPv6 works. With pf, this would look like:
# grep 'port 546' /etc/pf.conf pass in log inet6 proto udp to port 546
And voilà!
