[Kea-users] IA_PD without IA_NA and reserved Prefixes

[Wido den Hollander]

> Op 20 apr. 2016 om 19:17 heeft Marcin Siodelski <marcin at isc.org> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 20.04.2016 07:39, Wido den Hollander wrote:
>> 
>>> Op 20 april 2016 om 16:06 schreef Wido den Hollander <wido at widodh.nl>:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> My use-case is where I want to run a DHCPv6 server which does IA_PD, but
>>> doesn't
>>> do IA_NA.
>>> 
>>> The clients in this case obtain their address through SLAAC and additionally
>>> can
>>> get a prefix through IA_PD.
>>> 
>>> Additionally I only want assigned prefixes to be allowed. Only if a
>>> reservation
>>> is present I want to hand it out. Otherwise no prefix is assigned. That part
>>> seems to work by using the 'out-of-pool' mode for reservations.
>>> 
>>> In Kea I can't get this configured since it always requires a subnet.
>>> 
>>> "subnet6": [
>>>        {
>>>            "subnet": null,
>>>            "interface-id": "VLAN709",
>>>            "reservation-mode": "out-of-pool",
>>>            "reservations": [
>>>                {
>>> 
>>> This doesn't work, the same as leaving 'subnet' out of the configuration.
>>> 
>>> Is this possible with Kea?
>> 
>> I actually found out that this already works. Just define a 'subnet', but do not
>> define a 'pool' inside the subnet6 section.
>> 
>> My clients are now able to obtain a prefix through IA_PD but never get a answer
>> for IA_NA:
>> 
>> [kea-dhcp6.alloc-engine/1856] ALLOC_ENGINE_V6_ALLOC_FAIL
>> duid=[00:01:00:01:1e:94:17:e8:06:d4:36:00:04:87], tid=0x189a81: failed to
>> allocate an IPv6 address after 0 attempt(s)
>> 
>> Wido
> 
> Hi Wido,
> 
> From your second email it sounds that you were able to configure Kea to
> do what you want. Do you need any more assistance on this?
> 

Yes, it works now. However, it would be nice if you could omit the subnet in the configuration.

This way Kea knows you only use it for IA_PD and will not respond on IA_NA.

Wido

> Marcin Siodelski
> ISC