ipv6 support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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CirrOS |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Dr. Jens Harbott | ||
tempest |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The CirrOS image currently has no support for IPv6, and we can't have that in 2014...
From what I can tell this primarily involves the following areas:
- busybox
BB should be patched to compile IPv6 support for its binaries and several tools need to be added on top of that. Things like ping6 and traceroute6, so one is able to do some troubleshooting
- netconfig
Depending on the way clouds are configured for IPv6 (DHCPv6, Router Advertisements, ..) CirrOS needs to be able to pick up some configuration to configure and address. Either statically or through SLAAC (stateless autoconfig). Typically, it should configure IPv4 -and- IPv6, and perhaps only either one of those based on kernel parameters to keep it from running unnecessary code.
Changed in cirros: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
It does get an IPv6 address from the router advertisements; it won't get one from DHCPv6 though.