<html><head></head><body><div>On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 13:10 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 05/12/2016 12:23 PM, lejeczek wrote:
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On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 07:41 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
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On 05/04/2016 08:40 AM, lejeczek wrote:
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hi users
I have my dhcpd to serve nothing but virbr0 (libvirt), OS is Centos 7.2
Dhcpd would not start, complaining like this:
No subnet declaration for virbr0 (no IPv4 addresses).
** Ignoring requests on virbr0. If this is not what
you want, please write a subnet declaration
in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
to which interface virbr0 is attached. **
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Now that I see the libvirt network definition, I see that you don't have
any <ip> in it. So how does virbr0 *ever* get an IP address (since
apparently this is necessary for dhcpd to listen on it)? (Hmm - or is
there an <ip> element, but you just haven't included it in your snipped
bit of the network definition? If so, you omitted a very important part
of the puzzle!)
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Is virbr0 created by libvirt as part of one of its "virtual
networks"? If so, why are you using dhcpd rather than the dnsmasq
that libvirt already runs for it (and how are you managing to
terminate the dnsmasq process run by libvirt so its listening socket
doesn't conflict with the listener setup by dhcpd?)
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yes, set up like this:
<forward mode='route'/>
<bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/>
It really is simple plain vanilla setup, maybe not common but simple,
should be easy to reproduce: libvirtd's only one virbr0 and dhcpd to
listen only on this iface.
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Ah right, since there is no <ip> for the network (? right?), not only
will dnsmasq not listen for dhcp requests, but it simply won't start
dnsmasq at all. (if you do have an <ip> element but no <dhcp>, then
dnsmasq will be started, but only listen for dns requests, so either way
I now understand why dhcpd is able to listen). (NB: There currently
isn't a way to disable dhcp *and* dns listeners while simultaneously
also setting up an IP address).
Note that if there is no <ip> element, "<forward mode='route'/> in this
config is nonsensical - since there is no ip address associated with the
network, there is nothing to use for setting up iptables rules (which
are all based on a combination of bridge name and IP address/netmask).
</pre></blockquote><div>nonsensical is a good word, I'm guessing that your are assuming I'm tampering with it in all possible weird ways, which would be, yes, nonsensical.</div><div>Of course there is an IP attached to this configuration, like I said already it's pretty plain vanilla setup, should be very easy to reproduce for anybody, for you too.</div><div>Use Centos (probably any RHEL derivative) and have one virtbr like this:</div><div><br></div><div><network></div><div> <name>default</name></div><div> <uuid>894300f8-ecb4-4bac-8d1f-db3872d87435</uuid></div><div> <forward mode='route'/></div><div> <bridge name='virbr0' stp='on' delay='0'/></div><div> <mac address='52:54:00:e6:14:c9'/></div><div> <ip address='10.5.10.17' netmask='255.255.255.240'></div><div> </ip></div><div></network></div><div><br></div><div>above subnet is completely separate & different from any other host's ifaces.</div><div><br></div><div>in your systemd's dhcpd service config:</div><div><br></div><div>ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dhcpd -f -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf -user dhcpd -group dhcpd --no-pid virbr0</div><div><br></div><div>have your dhcpd.conf constructed to serve that virbr0 and the subnet, and... that is it. See if your dhcpd starts @bootime?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><pre><blockquote type="cite">
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No subnet declaration for virbr0 (no IPv4 addresses).
** Ignoring requests on virbr0. If this is not what
you want, please write a subnet declaration
in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
to which interface virbr0 is attached. **
and systemctl -l shows:
...
systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for dhcpd.service
...
but suffice to restart dhcpd and all works!
I'v customized systemd's service conf, I've put:
After=libvirtd.service
Requisite=libvirtd.service
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If virbr0 is created by libvirt, it's already starting a dnsmasq
process to handle dhcp requests, so you don't need (and shouldn't be
able to start) dhcpd listening on it. If virbr0 *isn't* created by
libvirt, then the change to systemd's configuration won't have any
effect.
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but this did not help.
Would you share your thoughts? Systemd list say it's libvirt
(wrong)doing.
many thanks.
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I disagree that libvirt is doing anything wrong. I really think it's
beyond the scope of libvirt to try to determine if it must complete its
network startup prior to allowing your dhcpd to start - once you start,
there's no end to the packages that might require libvirt's networks to
be completely started in order to listen on a bridge created by libvirt,
but we shouldn't be hard-coding into every host's startup dependencies
to make every service that sets up a listener socket synchronously wait
for libvirtd startup to complete - that would unnecessarily create a
delay on thousands of systems that don't need it (and could potentially
create some sort of circular dependency; I haven't checked)
I think that instead of using libvirt to create this simplistic bridge,
you should just setup the bridge in your host's normal network config,
i.e. in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts create the following file (btw -
take my advice and don't use a name starting with "virbr" when you
switch to setting up a bridge in the host system config. It will lead to
confusion at best, since libvirt-created bridges use virbrX, and if
anyone you ask for help sees a name starting with virbr they will assume
it is a bridge created by libvirt):
ifcfg-br0:
DEVICE=br0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Bridge
STP=on
DELAY=0
IPV6INIT=no
(include any IPv4 config here)
If you want to continue referring to that bridge as a network in libvirt
domain configs (ie if you want to keep using <interface type='network'>
.... <source network='mynet'/>...") then change the network definition
like this:
<network>
<name>mynet</name>
<forward mode='bridge'/>
<bridge name='br0'/>
<network>
This type of network definition won't create the named bridge, but will
instead expect that such a bridge (created by someone else, usually the
host system network config) already exists, and connect any guest tap
devices to that bridge.
Because it's now the host system network service (or Network Manager
service) that is creating the bridge rather than libvirtd, it will be
available when the dhcpd service starts up, so you won't have the
failure you have now.
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