[Dnsmasq-discuss] DHCPv6 solicit ignored by dnsmasq after UEFI -> iPXE -> Deploy ramdisk

[Harald Jensås]

On Tue, 2019-11-12 at 16:56 +0100, Harald Jensås wrote:
> When using DHCP-stateful addressing, radvd config below, UEFI
> succesfully request/advertize 2x IP's and downloads the bootimage
> (iPXE). UEFI (OVMF) then releases the addresses and iPXE then boots.
> 
> iPXE does one request/advertize and dowloads and boot the deploy
> ramdisk (CentoOS 7). dhclient in CentOS 7 starts logging: "XMT:
> Solicit
> on eth0, interval ...", dnsmasq ignores the DHCPv6 Solicit messages?
> I
> don't understand why it's ignored? (Config files, and annotated
> traffic
> dump + dnsmasq logs below.)
> 

This turned out to be an issue with nic device model's used on virtual
machines in my lab. Using virtio instead of e1000 solved the problem.

Sorry about the noise.

--
Harald