[libvirt] Enhancing clean-traffic to work with IPv6

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Apr 4 08:55:26 UTC 2014


On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 05:28:35PM -0400, Brian Rak wrote:
> I'm looking into adding IPv6 support to the nwfilter clean-traffic
> rules, but I'm unsure of the best approach to this.  I'm planning on
> sending patches once I get this correct, so I'm trying to figure out
> what way fits in best.
> 
> There's a couple different ways I can think of:
> 
> 1) Explicitly add v6 rules to the existing clean-traffic rules. This
> would enable IPv6 for guests whenever libvirt was upgraded, which
> may be a problem.
> 2) Add another filter chain (clean-ipv6-traffic) that would do the
> same thing as clean-traffic, just for IPv6
> 3) Add another filter chain (clean-ipv6-ipv4-traffic), that would
> clean IPv6 traffic, and include the clean-traffic filter set
> 
> The limitation here is that IP learning will not work for IPv6, so
> actually using IPv6 is going to require passing in parameters to
> filter specifying what ranges the guest should be allowed to use.  I
> think this rules out #1.

Why do you say IP learning won't work ?  The current impl of IP
learning only supports IPv4, but AFAIK, it should be viable to
enhance it to detect an address from the first outbound IPv6
packet, or by snooping DHCPv6 responses, just as we do for IPv4

Regards,
Daniel
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