On machines with many interfaces, enumerating them
via netlink on each packet reciept is slow,
and unneccesary. All we need is the local address->interface
mapping, which can be cached in the relay structures.
When a request matching the clid or mac address is
recieved the server will iterate over all candidate
addresses until it find's one that is not already
leased to a different clid/iaid and advertise
this address.
Using multiple reservations for a single host makes it
possible to maintain a static leases only configuration
which support network booting systems with UEFI firmware
that request a new address (a new SOLICIT with a new IA_NA
option using a new IAID) for different boot modes, for
instance 'PXE over IPv6', and 'HTTP-Boot over IPv6'. Open
Virtual Machine Firmware (OVMF) and most UEFI firmware
build on the EDK2 code base exhibit this behaviour.
The previous code here, which started fast-RA whenever that local
address associated with a DHCP context changed, is very vulnerable
to flapping due to dynamically created addresses in the same net.
Simplify so that if a context which has never found an interface now
finds one, that gets advertised, but not for other changes. That satisfies
the original intention that prefixes not in place when dnsmasq starts
should be recognised.
Also totally ignore all interfaces where we are configured not to do DHCP,
to preclude flapping of they have prefixes in common with interfaces
where we do DHCP.
Calling lease_update_file() _can_ result in a call to periodic_ra()
Since both the DHCPv6 and RA subsystems use the same packet buffer
this can overwrite the DHCPv6 packet. To avoid this we ensure the
DHCPv6 packet has been sent before calling lease_update_file().
Avoid offering the same address after a recieving a DECLINE message
to stop an infinite protocol loop. This has long been done in
default address allocation mode: this adds similar behaviour
when allocaing addresses consecutively.
I noticed that dnsmasq often wasn't sending any unsolicited RAs for me.
This turned out to happen when the interface (a bridge interface) wasn't
created yet at the time dnsmasq started. When dnsmasq is started after
the interface is created, it sends RAs as expected. I assume this also
extends to other types of virtual interfaces that are created after
dnsmasq starts.
Digging into the source, it seems to be caused by a missing call to
ra_start_unsolicited for non-template contexts in construct_worker from
src/dhcp6.c. The attached patch adds that call, but only if the
interface index or address changed to prevent doing fast RAs for no reason.
I tested it on my own server and it appears to work as expected. When
the interface is created and configured, dnsmasq does fast RAs for a
while and then settles into slow RAs.
The nasty code with static variable in retry_send() which
avoids looping forever needs to be called on success of the syscall,
to reset the static variable.
Simon Kelley