IPV6 Health Check
IPV4 addresses have been exhausted. We should double check that we are okay for IPV6 and make the required changes needed for better IPV6 support.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Steve Langasek
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- Stéphane Graber
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Stéphane Graber
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for oneiric
- Implementation:
-
Implemented
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Colin Watson
- Completed by
- Stéphane Graber
Related branches
Related bugs
Whiteboard
Work items:
[cjwatson] Pick up the ipv6 netcfg enabled d-i code: DONE
[cjwatson] Implement stateful DHCPv6 in netcfg: DONE
[cjwatson] Implement dual-stack support in netcfg: DONE
[cjwatson] Convert existing IPv6 netcfg code to permit using isc-dhcp-client for DHCPv6 on Linux: DONE
[cjwatson] Deal with MIR for ndisc6 (bug 806723): DONE
[cjwatson] Figure out interactions with ifupdown for SLAAC and DHCPv6: DONE
[stgraber] Verify dhcpv6 functionality in isc-dhcp-
[vorlon] merge latest NFS from debian: DONE
[vorlon] Upstartify rpcbind: DONE
[etienne-
[vorlon] Follow up with pgraner on testing of IPv6 support : DONE
[vorlon] Drill down to the known failures for consumer hardware and ensure these are tested/QA'ed
- Maybe related to Ubuntu Friendly hardware ?: TODO
[stgraber] Work on automated testing of IPv6 for both d-i and NM.: DONE
isc-dhcp-
- Works fine for dhcpv4 (dhclient -4 -d eth0)
- Works fine for dhcpv6 (dhclient -6 -d eth0)
- Included by default on CDs but not installed. So required: anna-install isc-dhcp-
- Current default dhcp client is busybox's udhcpc. As we ship isc-dhcp-
- It's to be noted that the mini.iso image doesn't contain isc-dhcp-
Meeting notes:
The IPv4 address space has been depleted, look at what's required in Ubuntu to get the ipv6 stack in good shape.
* IPv6 is urgent everywhere...
* Installer support
- Dual stack and IPv6 only
-- http://
- DHCPv6 (both in installer and after)
- NFS
- UFW - supported
- Issues with consumer grade hardware
Pre-meeting notes:
Renamed to a foundations spec, as this is a core issue for Ubuntu and it's derivatives -robbie.w
2011-05-17, amano
- Security and privacy are important. Maybe you should enable the Security Extensions for IPv6 by default? Win XP, Vista and Win 7 do so by default and iOS since version 4.3. Most certainly Ubuntu should do so as well. Source (in german): http://
2011-05-01, mathieu-tl:
Some extra things to consider in discussion contributed by Erik Andersen:
- check support for ipv6 in PPPoE (NM-specific) (mentioned on NM bugzilla, see https:/
- providing a way for users to enable/disable ipv6 privacy extensions (see bug 176125)
- verify / make UFW IPv6 ready (jdstrand: it's ready-- been in ufw since the beginning, with improvements all along the way) (erik-b-
2011-05-02, EtienneG
Foundations-related topic to discuss:
- Whether or not we should support the IPv6-only use-case (ie, not dual-stack)
- Installer support: d-i/netcfg, etc.
- NFS: replacing portmap with rpcbind (if needed) and making sure we have all the bits and pieces. Right now, nfs-utils is compiled without --enable-ipv6.
- Status of DHCPv6
- How well the various interpreted languages (Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Go, etc) supports IPv6
Non-foundations related topic that might be of interest:
- Making the Ubuntu network infrastructure (archive, web site, Launchpad, etc) reachable by IPv6
- Creating automated test-case for IPv6-only configuration
- Are all the major clients/daemons in main IPv6-capable? Should it be made a requirement?
- libvirt IPv6 support seems broken (not sure)
Testing:
- Ubuntu should ideally work identically with IPv4-only, IPv6-only, and dual-stack setups, including cases where one of v4 or v6 is broken (not connected to the internet), and work with all the possible router advertisement/
ScottK
6/6/11:
- Apparently libnet-dns-perl doesn't support IPv6: http://
6/7/11:
- http://
