[Kea-users] kea-dhcp6 ignoring DHCPv6 messages received on a tuntap interface

[Templin, Fred L]

Hello,

We are using kea-dhcp6 version 1.0.0 over a tuntap interface in tun mode. We
are sending DHCPv6 Solicit messages from a client to the kea server that is
supposed to be listening on tun0 (see attached kea.conf). When we run
"tcpdump -lnnXi tun0" on the kea server, we see what appear to be good
DHCPv6 Solicits wrapped in relay-fwd wrappers. The client is sending the
Solicits once per second, but the kea server never gives any indication that
it has received any of the messages even when run in debug mode.

Here is what the relay-fwd wrapped DHCPv6 Solicit message looks like taken
from tcpdump on the kea server's tun0 interface:

14:59:37.334546 IP6 fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff.546 > ff02::1:2.547: dhcp6 relay-fwd
	0x0000:  6000 0000 008e 11ff fe80 0000 0000 0000  `...............
	0x0010:  ffff ffff ffff ffff ff02 0000 0000 0000  ................
	0x0020:  0000 0000 0001 0002 0222 0223 008e c44e  .........".#...N
	0x0030:  0c00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
	0x0040:  0000 fe80 0000 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff  ................
	0x0050:  ffff 0012 0004 0000 b0e2 0042 0020 0011  ...........B....
	0x0060:  001c 0000 b0e2 0001 0014 00ff aa04 0000  ................
	0x0070:  0000 0000 0000 0000 ffff 0000 0000 0009  ................
	0x0080:  0034 0185 2f37 0001 000a 0002 0000 b0e2  .4../7..........
	0x0090:  0000 0000 0006 0004 0017 0018 0008 0002  ................
	0x00a0:  0000 0019 000c 0000 b0e2 0000 0000 0000  ................
	0x00b0:  0000 000e 0000                           ......

and, here is the result of "ifconfig tun0" on the kea server:

tun0      Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          inet addr:10.8.0.1  P-t-P:10.8.0.1  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::2/64 Scope:Link
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          RX bytes:135370 (135.3 KB)  TX bytes:912 (912.0 B)

Note that we have successfully used kea-dhcp6 over tuntap interfaces in
tun mode in other application contexts. Could it be that there is some kind
of tuntap configuration difference that is causing kea to ignore our messages?

Any ideas on how to debug this?

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.templin at boeing.com
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