[libvirt] Proposed: replace radvd with dnsmasq for Router Advertizing
Jiri Denemark
jdenemar at redhat.com
Fri Nov 2 15:58:24 UTC 2012
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 08:25:42 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I have been doing some testing and dnsmasq is capable of handling the
> service currently provided by radvd. To implement this in dnsmasq
> requires the following:
>
> if an IPv6 dhcp-range is specified, then add:
> enable-ra
>
> if no IPv6 dhcp-range is specified, then add:
> dhsp-range=<IPv6-subnet>,ra-only
>
> Tested. The second one will work with basic dnsmasq-2.6.3. The first
> one and dhcp-range itself only works with dnsmasq-2.64 (when released)
> or dnsmasq-2.63+patches.
>
> Since dnsmasq-2.48 does not support IPv6 dhcp but does handle IPv6 for
> dns and CentOS 6 does include radvd, I also propose that a libvirtd.conf
> option be added. If the option is not present or set off, then radvd is
> used. If the option is set on, then dnsmasq is used.
I think this should rather be handled by configure script (perhaps with an
additional option if needed). Otherwise, I agree with the plan.
Jirka
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