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

[Geert Stappers]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 07:16:40PM +0100, Harald Jensås wrote:
> 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.
 
Thanks for reporting that.

> Sorry about the noise.

I wish more people report back on the issue they reported.


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Geert Stappers
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