# This test verifies that we can request and assign IPv6 prefixes from upstream # (e.g. ISP) routers. # The setup consists of three VMs. One for the ISP, as your residential router # and the third as a client machine in the residential network. # # There are two VLANs in this test: # - VLAN 1 is the connection between the ISP and the router # - VLAN 2 is the connection between the router and the client import ./make-test-python.nix ( { pkgs, lib, ... }: { name = "systemd-networkd-ipv6-prefix-delegation"; meta = with lib.maintainers; { maintainers = [ andir hexa ]; }; nodes = { # The ISP's routers job is to delegate IPv6 prefixes via DHCPv6. Like with # regular IPv6 auto-configuration it will also emit IPv6 router # advertisements (RAs). Those RA's will not carry a prefix but in contrast # just set the "Other" flag to indicate to the receiving nodes that they # should attempt DHCPv6. # # Note: On the ISPs device we don't really care if we are using networkd in # this example. That being said we can't use it (yet) as networkd doesn't # implement the serving side of DHCPv6. We will use ISC Kea for that task. isp = { lib, pkgs, ... }: { virtualisation.vlans = [ 1 ]; networking = { useDHCP = false; firewall.enable = false; interfaces.eth1 = lib.mkForce { }; # Don't use scripted networking }; systemd.network = { enable = true; networks = { "eth1" = { matchConfig.Name = "eth1"; address = [ "2001:DB8::1/64" ]; networkConfig.IPv4Forwarding = true; networkConfig.IPv6Forwarding = true; }; }; }; # Since we want to program the routes that we delegate to the "customer" # into our routing table we must provide kea with the required capability. systemd.services.kea-dhcp6-server.serviceConfig = { AmbientCapabilities = [ "CAP_NET_ADMIN" ]; CapabilityBoundingSet = [ "CAP_NET_ADMIN" ]; }; services = { # Configure the DHCPv6 server to hand out both IA_NA and IA_PD. # # We will hand out /48 prefixes from the subnet 2001:DB8:F000::/36. # That gives us ~8k prefixes. That should be enough for this test. # # Since (usually) you will not receive a prefix with the router # advertisements we also hand out /128 leases from the range # 2001:DB8:0000:0000:FFFF::/112. kea.dhcp6 = { enable = true; settings = { interfaces-config.interfaces = [ "eth1" ]; subnet6 = [ { id = 1; interface = "eth1"; subnet = "2001:DB8::/32"; pd-pools = [ { prefix = "2001:DB8:1000::"; prefix-len = 36; delegated-len = 48; } ]; pools = [ { pool = "2001:DB8:0000:0000::-2001:DB8:0FFF:FFFF::FFFF"; } ]; } ]; # This is the glue between Kea and the Kernel FIB. DHCPv6 # rightfully has no concept of setting up a route in your # FIB. This step really depends on your setup. # # In a production environment your DHCPv6 server is likely # not the router. You might want to consider BGP, NETCONF # calls, … in those cases. # # In this example we use the run script hook, that lets use # execute anything and passes information via the environment. # https://kea.readthedocs.io/en/kea-2.2.0/arm/hooks.html#run-script-run-script-support-for-external-hook-scripts hooks-libraries = [ { library = "${pkgs.kea}/lib/kea/hooks/libdhcp_run_script.so"; parameters = { name = pkgs.writeShellScript "kea-run-hooks" '' export PATH="${ lib.makeBinPath ( with pkgs; [ coreutils iproute2 ] ) }" set -euxo pipefail leases6_committed() { for i in $(seq $LEASES6_SIZE); do idx=$((i-1)) prefix_var="LEASES6_AT''${idx}_ADDRESS" plen_var="LEASES6_AT''${idx}_PREFIX_LEN" ip -6 route replace ''${!prefix_var}/''${!plen_var} via $QUERY6_REMOTE_ADDR dev $QUERY6_IFACE_NAME done } unknown_handler() { echo "Unhandled function call ''${*}" exit 123 } case "$1" in "leases6_committed") leases6_committed ;; *) unknown_handler "''${@}" ;; esac ''; sync = false; }; } ]; }; }; # Finally we have to set up the router advertisements. While we could be # using networkd or bird for this task `radvd` is probably the most # venerable of them all. It was made explicitly for this purpose and # the configuration is much more straightforward than what networkd # requires. # As outlined above we will have to set the `Managed` flag as otherwise # the clients will not know if they should do DHCPv6. (Some do # anyway/always) radvd = { enable = true; config = '' interface eth1 { AdvSendAdvert on; AdvManagedFlag on; AdvOtherConfigFlag off; # we don't really have DNS or NTP or anything like that to distribute prefix ::/64 { AdvOnLink on; AdvAutonomous on; }; }; ''; }; }; }; # This will be our (residential) router that receives the IPv6 prefix (IA_PD) # and /128 (IA_NA) allocation. # # Here we will actually start using networkd. router = { virtualisation.vlans = [ 1 2 ]; systemd.services.systemd-networkd.environment.SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL = "debug"; boot.kernel.sysctl = { # we want to forward packets from the ISP to the client and back. "net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding" = 1; }; networking = { useNetworkd = true; useDHCP = false; # Consider enabling this in production and generating firewall rules # for fowarding/input from the configured interfaces so you do not have # to manage multiple places firewall.enable = false; interfaces.eth1.ipv6.addresses = lib.mkForce [ ]; }; systemd.network = { networks = { # systemd-networkd will load the first network unit file # that matches, ordered lexiographically by filename. # /etc/systemd/network/{40-eth1,99-main}.network already # exists. This network unit must be loaded for the test, # however, hence why this network is named such. # Configuration of the interface to the ISP. # We must request accept RAs and request the PD prefix. "01-eth1" = { name = "eth1"; networkConfig = { Description = "ISP interface"; IPv6AcceptRA = true; #DHCP = false; # no need for legacy IP }; linkConfig = { # We care about this interface when talking about being "online". # If this interface is in the `routable` state we can reach # others and they should be able to reach us. RequiredForOnline = "routable"; }; # This configures the DHCPv6 client part towards the ISPs DHCPv6 server. dhcpV6Config = { # We have to include a request for a prefix in our DHCPv6 client # request packets. # Otherwise the upstream DHCPv6 server wouldn't know if we want a # prefix or not. Note: On some installation it makes sense to # always force that option on the DHPCv6 server since there are # certain CPEs that are just not setting this field but happily # accept the delegated prefix. PrefixDelegationHint = "::/48"; }; ipv6SendRAConfig = { # Let networkd know that we would very much like to use DHCPv6 # to obtain the "managed" information. Not sure why they can't # just take that from the upstream RAs. Managed = true; }; }; # Interface to the client. Here we should redistribute a /64 from # the prefix we received from the ISP. "01-eth2" = { name = "eth2"; networkConfig = { Description = "Client interface"; # The client shouldn't be allowed to send us RAs, that would be weird. IPv6AcceptRA = false; # Delegate prefixes from the DHCPv6 PD pool. DHCPPrefixDelegation = true; IPv6SendRA = true; }; # In a production environment you should consider setting these as well: # ipv6SendRAConfig = { #EmitDNS = true; #EmitDomains = true; #DNS= = "fe80::1"; # or whatever "well known" IP your router will have on the inside. # }; # This adds a "random" ULA prefix to the interface that is being # advertised to the clients. # Not used in this test. # ipv6Prefixes = [ # { # ipv6PrefixConfig = { # AddressAutoconfiguration = true; # PreferredLifetimeSec = 1800; # ValidLifetimeSec = 1800; # }; # } # ]; }; # finally we are going to add a static IPv6 unique local address to # the "lo" interface. This will serve as ICMPv6 echo target to # verify connectivity from the client to the router. "01-lo" = { name = "lo"; addresses = [ { Address = "FD42::1/128"; } ]; }; }; }; }; # This is the client behind the router. We should be receiving router # advertisements for both the ULA and the delegated prefix. # All we have to do is boot with the default (networkd) configuration. client = { virtualisation.vlans = [ 2 ]; systemd.services.systemd-networkd.environment.SYSTEMD_LOG_LEVEL = "debug"; networking = { useNetworkd = true; useDHCP = false; interfaces.eth1.ipv6.addresses = lib.mkForce [ ]; }; }; }; testScript = '' # First start the router and wait for it it reach a state where we are # certain networkd is up and it is able to send out RAs router.start() router.wait_for_unit("systemd-networkd.service") # After that we can boot the client and wait for the network online target. # Since we only care about IPv6 that should not involve waiting for legacy # IP leases. client.start() client.systemctl("start network-online.target") client.wait_for_unit("network-online.target") # the static address on the router should not be reachable client.wait_until_succeeds("ping -6 -c 1 FD42::1") # the global IP of the ISP router should still not be a reachable router.fail("ping -6 -c 1 2001:DB8::1") # Once we have internal connectivity boot up the ISP isp.start() # Since for the ISP "being online" should have no real meaning we just # wait for the target where all the units have been started. # It probably still takes a few more seconds for all the RA timers to be # fired etc.. isp.wait_for_unit("multi-user.target") # wait until the uplink interface has a good status router.systemctl("start network-online.target") router.wait_for_unit("network-online.target") router.wait_until_succeeds("ping -6 -c1 2001:DB8::1") # shortly after that the client should have received it's global IPv6 # address and thus be able to ping the ISP client.wait_until_succeeds("ping -6 -c1 2001:DB8::1") # verify that we got a globally scoped address in eth1 from the # documentation prefix ip_output = client.succeed("ip --json -6 address show dev eth1") import json ip_json = json.loads(ip_output)[0] assert any( addr["local"].upper().startswith("2001:DB8:") for addr in ip_json["addr_info"] if addr["scope"] == "global" ) ''; } )