# This test verifies that we can request and assign IPv6 prefixes from upstream # (e.g. ISP) routers. # The setup consits 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, ...}: { name = "systemd-networkd-ipv6-prefix-delegation"; meta = with pkgs.lib.maintainers; { maintainers = [ andir ]; }; 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's well aged dhcpd6 # for that task. isp = { lib, pkgs, ... }: { virtualisation.vlans = [ 1 ]; networking = { useDHCP = false; firewall.enable = false; interfaces.eth1.ipv4.addresses = lib.mkForce []; # no need for legacy IP interfaces.eth1.ipv6.addresses = lib.mkForce [ { address = "2001:DB8::1"; prefixLength = 64; } ]; }; # Since we want to program the routes that we delegate to the "customer" # into our routing table we must give dhcpd the required privs. systemd.services.dhcpd6.serviceConfig.AmbientCapabilities = [ "CAP_NET_ADMIN" ]; services = { # Configure the DHCPv6 server # # 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. dhcpd6 = { enable = true; interfaces = [ "eth1" ]; extraConfig = '' subnet6 2001:DB8::/36 { range6 2001:DB8:0000:0000:FFFF:: 2001:DB8:0000:0000:FFFF::FFFF; prefix6 2001:DB8:F000:: 2001:DB8:FFFF:: /48; } # This is the secret sauce. We have to extract the prefix and the # next hop when commiting the lease to the database. dhcpd6 # (rightfully) has not concept of adding routes to the systems # routing table. It really depends on the setup. # # In a production environment your DHCPv6 server is likely not the # router. You might want to consider BGP, custom NetConf calls, … # in those cases. on commit { set IP = pick-first-value(binary-to-ascii(16, 16, ":", substring(option dhcp6.ia-na, 16, 16)), "n/a"); set Prefix = pick-first-value(binary-to-ascii(16, 16, ":", suffix(option dhcp6.ia-pd, 16)), "n/a"); set PrefixLength = pick-first-value(binary-to-ascii(10, 8, ":", substring(suffix(option dhcp6.ia-pd, 17), 0, 1)), "n/a"); log(concat(IP, " ", Prefix, " ", PrefixLength)); execute("${pkgs.iproute2}/bin/ip", "-6", "route", "replace", concat(Prefix,"/",PrefixLength), "via", IP); } ''; }; # 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; }; 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. DHCPv6PrefixDelegation = 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 = [ { addressConfig.Address = "FD42::1/128"; } ]; }; }; }; # make the network-online target a requirement, we wait for it in our test script systemd.targets.network-online.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; }; # This is the client behind the router. We should be receving 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; }; # make the network-online target a requirement, we wait for it in our test script systemd.targets.network-online.wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ]; }; }; 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.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.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" ) ''; })