Comment 0 for bug 1844688

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Rodolfo Alonso (rodolfo-alonso-hernandez) wrote :

Since [1], the radvd daemon is spawned with parameter "-u username". This drops the root privileges and changes the user ID to "username".

In some deployments (e.g. TripleO), the "neutron" user does not have, inside the L3 agent container, the permissions to modify the host kernel interfaces (from journal.log):

wrz 13 13:08:15 controller-2 radvd[904324]: failed to set LinkMTU (1500) for qr-7befc0a3-04: Permission denied
wrz 13 13:08:15 controller-2 radvd[904324]: failed to set CurHopLimit (64) for qr-7befc0a3-04: Permission denied

[1] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/Ic5d976ba71a966a537d1f31888f82997a7ccb0de