From: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH installer v2 9/9] unconfigured: try to retrieve IPv6 SLAAC addresses on startup
Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 17:57:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260511155753.1623099-10-c.heiss@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260511155753.1623099-1-c.heiss@proxmox.com>
Uses `rdisc6` to send IPv6 router solicitations, in order to get
potential router advertisements. The kernel then auto-configures any
retrieved IPv6 address on the corresponding interface.
`rdnssd` is used to to retrieve IPv6 (recursive) DNS servers from these
router advertisements.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Heiss <c.heiss@proxmox.com>
---
Changes v1 -> v2:
* give routers a 2sec window to respond to router solicitations
debian/control | 2 ++
unconfigured.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 8049dd6..3c9de71 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@ Depends: chrony,
libgtk3-perl,
libgtk3-webkit2-perl,
libjson-perl,
+ ndisc6,
proxmox-kernel-helper,
+ rdnssd,
squashfs-tools,
util-linux-extra,
${misc:Depends},
diff --git a/unconfigured.sh b/unconfigured.sh
index 7445ac4..8b1ee51 100755
--- a/unconfigured.sh
+++ b/unconfigured.sh
@@ -218,6 +218,16 @@ handle_wireless() {
fi
}
+# Iterates over all UP interfaces and sends a router solicitation on each.
+ipv6_send_router_solicitation() {
+ local devs
+ devs="$(ip -6 addr show scope link up | grep -oP '^\d+: \K\S+(?=:)')"
+
+ for dev in $devs; do
+ rdisc6 -1 --retry 1 "$dev" || true
+ done
+}
+
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
echo "Starting Proxmox installation"
@@ -311,6 +321,23 @@ echo -n "Attempting to get DHCP leases... "
dhclient -v
echo "done"
+# start rdnssd in the background first
+# the default merge hook just appends it to /etc/resolv.conf, which is what we want
+# also need to create the run-directory for rdnssd, otherwise it will silently
+# fail to write out new entries
+echo "Starting rdnssd for retrieving IPv6 nameservers..."
+mkdir -p /run/rdnssd
+rdnssd --merge-hook /etc/rdnssd/merge-hook --user root || echo "starting rdnssd failed ($?)"
+
+# check for IPv6 SLAAC by sending a router solicitation
+# rdnssd will pick up any nameservers, and the kernel interface addresses
+echo "Sending IPv6 router solicitations..."
+ipv6_send_router_solicitation
+# give routers a reasonable window to respond, so that
+# `proxmox-low-level-installer dump-env` can pick them up
+sleep 2
+echo "Done sending IPv6 router solicitations."
+
echo "Starting chrony for opportunistic time-sync... "
chronyd || echo "starting chrony failed ($?)"
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-11 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-11 15:57 [PATCH installer v2 0/9] add IPv6 SLAAC and v6-only support Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 1/9] install: drop trivial fromjs() wrapper and use JSON::from_json() Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 2/9] install: move network subroutines to Proxmox::Sys::Net Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 3/9] install: use run_env->{network} instead of old run_env->{ipconf} Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 4/9] gui: " Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 5/9] sys: net: drop the now-unused `ipconf` runtime environment configuration Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 6/9] sys: net: allow up to /128 netmask for IPv6 Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH RFC installer v2 7/9] sys: net: ignore ipv6 nameservers with zone identifiers Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` [PATCH installer v2 8/9] common: options: rework network address setup to handle ipv6-only Christoph Heiss
2026-05-11 15:57 ` Christoph Heiss [this message]
2026-05-12 2:46 ` applied: [PATCH installer v2 0/9] add IPv6 SLAAC and v6-only support Thomas Lamprecht
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