Open main menu

OpenVZ Virtuozzo Containers Wiki β

Editing IPv6

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 3: Line 3:
 
IPv6 works best when veth devices are used to bridge VEs to their host.  An IPv6 compliant method of using veth interfaces for VEs can be found in the [[VEs and HNs in same subnets]] article.   
 
IPv6 works best when veth devices are used to bridge VEs to their host.  An IPv6 compliant method of using veth interfaces for VEs can be found in the [[VEs and HNs in same subnets]] article.   
  
venet devices are not fully IPv6 compliant, but still works if you statically assign IPv6 addresses.  They do not properly support MAC addresses and consequently link local addresses and can not play nice with neighbor discovery or router advertisements, router discovery, or auto-conf.  They also require additional modifications to the layer 3 forwarding behaviour of the host via sysctl.
+
venet devices are not fully IPv6 compliant.  They do not properly support MAC addresses and consequently link local addresses and can not play nice with neighbor discovery or router advertisements, router discovery, or auto-conf.  They also require additional modifications to the layer 3 forwarding behaviour of the host via sysctl.
 
 
== Configure the Node ==
 
In order for IPv6 to work for containers you must have a fully functioning IPv6 interface on the host node.
 
 
 
== CentOS Node Configuration for IPv6 ==
 
 
 
<pre>Add the below to the file /etc/sysconfig/network
 
 
 
NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
 
IPV6FORWARDING=yes
 
IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=eth0
 
IPV6_DEFAULTGW=aaaa:bbbb:a01a::1
 
IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
 
 
 
Add the below to the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX  X being your interface number
 
 
 
IPV6INIT=yes
 
IPV6ADDR=aaaa:bbbb:cccc:0000:0100::1
 
 
 
/etc/sysctl.conf also needs
 
 
 
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding = 1
 
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding = 1
 
net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp = 1
 
</pre>
 
 
 
 
 
== venet example ==
 
(tests done on CentOS kernel 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5.028stab079.2)
 
 
 
=== Adding an IPv6 address to a container ===
 
<pre>
 
# vzctl set <id> --ipadd <ipv6_addr> --save
 
</pre>
 
 
 
In my tests, the container had to be restarted before it would respond to ICMP6 echo requests.
 
 
 
In other tests on 2.6.32-042stab044.11 kernel, container failed to receive Neighbor Solicitation requests and replies, so I had to enable proxy_ndp:
 
 
 
<pre>
 
# sysctl -w net.ipv6.conf.all.proxy_ndp=1
 
</pre>
 
 
 
(and later add appropriate line to /etc/sysctl.conf).
 
 
 
=== Removing an IPv6 address from a container ===
 
<pre>
 
# vzctl set <id> --ipdel <ipv6_addr> --save
 
</pre>
 
 
 
Removal is effective immediately and the host stops replying to echo requests.
 
 
 
==ip6tables==
 
If you will be using connection tracking in any container ip6tables firewall rules (i.e. '-m state --state'), you'll need to enable additional kernel modules in the host /etc/vz.conf.  Add 'ipt_state' to IPTABLES and 'nf_conntrack_ipv6' to IP6TABLES.  They should look something like this:
 
 
 
<pre>
 
IPTABLES="ipt_REJECT ipt_tos ipt_limit ipt_multiport iptable_filter iptable_mangle ipt_TCPMSS ipt_tcpmss ipt_ttl ipt_length ipt_state"
 
 
 
IP6TABLES="ip6_tables ip6table_filter ip6table_mangle ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6"
 
</pre>
 
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
* [[Virtual Ethernet device]]
 
* [[Virtual Ethernet device]]
 
* [[Differences between venet and veth]]
 
* [[Differences between venet and veth]]
 
== External Links ==
 
* A user success story / howto on SixXS wiki [https://www.sixxs.net/wiki/User:JNN2-SIXXS/OpenVZ].
 

Please note that all contributions to OpenVZ Virtuozzo Containers Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then don't submit it here.
If you are going to add external links to an article, read the External links policy first!

To edit this page, please answer the question that appears below (more info):

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)