radvd is not assigning prefix
- by Samik
I'm currently trying to setup IPv6 address auto-configuration with router advertisement daemon (radvd) on a virtual machine running CentOS 6.5. But the eth0 interface is not obtaining that prefix.
I've obtained the ULA prefix from here.
Contents of /etc/sysctl.conf
# Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux
#
# For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and
# sysctl.conf(5) for more details.
# Controls IP packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1
# Controls source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
# Do not accept source routing
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
# Controls the System Request debugging functionality of the kernel
kernel.sysrq = 0
# Controls whether core dumps will append the PID to the core filename.
# Useful for debugging multi-threaded applications.
kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
# Controls the use of TCP syncookies
net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies = 1
# Disable netfilter on bridges.
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
# Controls the default maxmimum size of a mesage queue
kernel.msgmnb = 65536
# Controls the maximum size of a message, in bytes
kernel.msgmax = 65536
# Controls the maximum shared segment size, in bytes
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
# Controls the maximum number of shared memory segments, in pages
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
Contents of /etc/radvd.conf
# NOTE: there is no such thing as a working "by-default" configuration file.
# At least the prefix needs to be specified. Please consult the radvd.conf(5)
# man page and/or /usr/share/doc/radvd-*/radvd.conf.example for help.
#
#
interface eth0
{
AdvSendAdvert on;
MinRtrAdvInterval 3;
MaxRtrAdvInterval 10;
AdvDefaultPreference low;
AdvHomeAgentFlag off;
prefix fd8a:8d9d:808f:1::/64
{
AdvOnLink on;
AdvAutonomous on;
AdvRouterAddr on;
};
};
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=52:54:00:74:d7:46
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=af5db1cb-e809-4098-be1a-5a74dbb767b1
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
I've also enabled radvd at startup through chkconfig. Though I noticed that radvd is starting after interfaces are brought up. I've tried restarting the network service afterwards but still I get the following link-local address only
#ip -6 addr show
1: lo: mtu 16436
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: mtu 1500 qlen 1000
inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe74:d746/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
Edit: Based on the answer given by Sander Steffann
I still need clarification on some points but I'm posting here what worked.
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=syslog-ng-server
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
IPV6FORWARDING=yes
Contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=52:54:00:74:d7:46
TYPE=Ethernet
UUID=af5db1cb-e809-4098-be1a-5a74dbb767b1
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
IPV6FORWARDING=no
Removed following line from /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1
Contents of /etc/radvd.conf is as previous.
