DHCP6 client

Brett Lee Brett.Lee at Sun.COM
Fri Jan 15 23:15:44 UTC 2010


Hello -

Am using FreeBSD 6.3 as a dhcp6 client, trying to get DDNSv6 operational 
in this environment.  When I execute 'dhcp6c -d lnc0' from the command 
line, the following messages are logged on the (ISC 4.1.0p1) DHCP6 server:

Solicit message from fe80::20c:29ff:fef3:a5de port 546, transaction ID 
0xB3D95D
Unable to pick client prefix: no IPv6 prefix pools on this shared network
Sending Advertise to fe80::20c:29ff:fef3:a5de port 546

Am confused by the message above, in particular the "prefix pools", as 
this host obtains the "global address" prefix and configures both link 
local and global addresses via SLAAC.  Surely this can't be the same 
prefix.

Equally confusing is that the Solaris hosts on this LAN have no problem 
getting v6 addresses via this DHCP server, and there seems to be plenty 
of free leases available.

Does FreeBSD 6.3 DHCP6 client need a "prefix", or a "pool" of them to be 
  delivered by the server?  Obviously I'm a little bit confused :) and 
am thinking the problem is with the dhcpd.conf file.  Hoping for some 
clarification or direction.  Configs are below.

Thanks for your guidance/suggestions!  -Brett

Client:

[root at freebsdvm ~]# ifconfig -a
lnc0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> 
mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fef3:a5de%lnc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 192.168.1.94 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
         inet6 2bad:0:564:1:20c:29ff:fef3:a5de prefixlen 64 autoconf
         ether 00:0c:29:f3:a5:de
plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
[root at freebsdvm ~]# grep -v '#' /usr/local/etc/dhcp6c.conf
interface lnc0 {
         send ia-pd 0;
};
id-assoc pd {
         prefix-interface lnc0 {
                 sla-id 1;
         };
};
[root at freebsdvm ~]#

Server:

[root at solaris10u4sparc named]# grep iaaddr /var/db/dhcpd6.leases | sort 
| uniq
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:1::12 {
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:1::18 {
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:1::19 {
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:2::18 {
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:2::19 {
   iaaddr 2bad:0:564:3::18 {
[root at solaris10u4sparc named]# grep -v '#' /etc/dhcpd.conf | egrep 
'[A-Z]|[a-z]|[0-9]'
authoritative;
include "/etc/rndc.key";
ddns-update-style       interim;
ddns-domainname         "ipv6.apevt.local";
ddns-rev-domainname     "in-addr.arpa";
ignore                  client-updates;
zone ipv6.apevt.local. {
         primary 192.168.1.23;
         key "rndc-key";
log-facility local6;
min-lease-time 60;
default-lease-time 3600;
max-lease-time 43200;
option domain-name "ipv6.apevt.local";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.254, 192.168.1.23;
option dhcp.domain-search "ipv6.apevt.local, apevt.local";
option dhcp6.domain-search "ipv6.apevt.local, apevt.local";
option dhcp6.name-servers 2bad:0:564:1:203:baff:fee8:36f2, 
2bad:0:564:2:203:baff:fee8:36f3, 2bad:0:564:3:203:baff:fee8:36f4;
subnet6 2bad:0000:0564:0001::/64 {
    allow unknown-clients;
    min-lease-time 60;
    default-lease-time 60;
    max-lease-time 60;
    range6 2bad:0000:0564:0001::10 2bad:0000:0564:0001::19;
subnet6 2bad:0000:0564:0002::/64 {
    allow unknown-clients;
    min-lease-time 60;
    default-lease-time 60;
    max-lease-time 60;
    range6 2bad:0000:0564:0002::10 2bad:0000:0564:0002::19;
subnet6  2bad:0000:0564:0003::/64 {
    allow unknown-clients;
    min-lease-time 60;
    default-lease-time 60;
    max-lease-time 60;
    range6 2bad:0000:0564:0003::10 2bad:0000:0564:0003::19;
[root at solaris10u4sparc named]#




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