How to use --ipv6_ra_mode dhcpv6-stateless --ipv6_address_mode dhcpv6-stateless?
My environment has subnets configured with:
--ipv6_ra_mode dhcpv6-stateless --ipv6_address_mode dhcpv6-stateless
Addresses are well generated (slaac) and VMs have connectivity. But, dhcpv6 requests are not sent. I need that VMs request other information (like nameservers) from dhcpv6 on boot. I've tested manually after boot and it works.
I've seen that the file /etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init.cfg is generated at boot time. Its content is:
# This file is generated from information provided by
# the datasource. Changes to it will not persist across an instance.
# To disable cloud-init's network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto ens3
iface ens3 inet dhcp
To do what I'm thinking I just need to put these other lines in this configuration file:
iface ens3 inet6 auto
pre-up sleep 5
dhcp 1
This was tested, running dhcpv6 manually. Sleep 5 is due a Ubuntu bug and 'dhcp 1' indicates that information should be obtained from dhcpv6 server.
Anyone could suggest how can I get this configuration?
Remenbering that the name of interface is generated by the VMs. For example, in Ubuntu we have ens3 and in Debian eth0. So, bash scripts as user_data to write the interfaces file doesn't looks like a good solution.
I had hope cloud-init could do that.
Thanks.
Thanks for mentioning the "dhcp 1" option, I didn't know that before. Otherwise I agree that this would be a useful feature for cloud-init, probably best create a bug report for it at https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init in order to reach the developers.