[Kea-users] failed to allocate an IPv6 address after 65515 attempt(s)

Sandeep Adapala sandeepadapala11 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 15:57:43 UTC 2019


Oops, I am sorry for the dum question. I forgot that 15-ffff has only
65k addresses

so below should work right?

"subnet6": [
>
>              {
>
>                  "subnet": "fd00:1:dead:beef::/64",
>
>                  "id": 1024,
>
>                  "interface": "bond0",
>
>                  "pools": [
>
>                      { "pool": "fd00:1:dead:beef::15-fd00:1:dead:beef::ffff" } ,
                         { "pool":
"fd00:1:dead:beef:1::15-fd00:1:dead:beef:1::ffff" }
>
>                  ]
>
>              }
>
>          ]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:52 AM Thomas Markwalder <tmark at isc.org> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> You have specified the pool as an address range beginning at
> fd00:1:dead:beef::15 and ending at fd00:1:dead:beef::ffff.  Which only
> includes 65520 addresses to begin with. You use any of the following
> alternatives:
>
> 1. increase the pool end address
> 2. specify it as address/length:  fd00:1:dead:beef::/64
> 3. Add additional pools
>
> You could specify it as fd00:1:dead::beef::15/64
>
> On 7/24/19 11:31 AM, Sandeep Adapala wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am using version 1.5.0 Kea DHCPv6 version. I have allocated a /64
> > subnet as below
> >
> >    "subnet6": [
> >
> >              {
> >
> >                  "subnet": "fd00:1:dead:beef::/64",
> >
> >                  "id": 1024,
> >
> >                  "interface": "bond0",
> >
> >                  "pools": [
> >
> >                      { "pool": "fd00:1:dead:beef::15-fd00:1:dead:beef::ffff" }
> >
> >                  ]
> >
> >              }
> >
> >          ]
> >
> > But somehow it is not able to allocate more than 65515 ip's in that
> > subnet. Is there variable I can change to support more than that?
> >
> >
>
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-- 
Regards,
Sandeep Adapala



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