IPv6 Router Advertisements under FreeBSD with rtadvd
Aurora Compute At PCextreme B.V. we started using FreeBSD machines as routers for our Aurora Compute cloud platform. Using the Intel Xeon E5-v3 processor and the SR-IOV technique of Intel’s 10Gbit...
View ArticleISC Kea DHCPv6 server
DHCPv6 In most situations StateLess Address AutoConfiguration (SLAAC) works just fine when you work with simple clients in a IPv6 network. But in other cases you want to assign pre-defined addresses or...
View ArticleIPv6 Prefix Delegation on a Cisco 887VA behind a XS4All VDSL2 connection
XS4All connection At the PCextreme office we have a XS4All VDSL2 connection which has native IPv6. We get a /48 from XS4All. I wrote two earlier blogposts about getting the Cisco 887VA router setup...
View ArticleMariaDB Galera cluster on IPv6
MariaDB Galera I try to set as much IPv6-only infrastructure as possible and the same goes for a new MariaDB Galera cluster I had to build. According to the release notes MariaDB 10.1 should have IPv6...
View ArticleDocker and IPv6 Prefix Delegation
As posted earlier I have IPv6 Prefix Delegation working at our office to test with Docker. One of the missing links was to automatically configure Docker to use the prefix obtained through DHCPv6+PD. I...
View ArticleAnyIP: Bind a whole subnet to your Linux machine
IPv6 Prefix Delegation In my previous post I wrote how you can use Docker with IPv6 and Prefix Delegation. A IPv6 subnet routed to a Linux machine can be used with other things than Docker. That’s...
View ArticleVirtualBox images to experiment with IPv6
Around me I noticed that a lot of people don’t have hands-on experience with IPv6. The networks they work in do not support IPv6 nor does their ISP provide them with native IPv6 connectivity at home....
View ArticleDocker containers with IPv6 behind NAT
WARNING In production IPv6 should always be used without NAT. Only use IPv6 and NAT for testing purposes. There is no valid reason to use IPv6 with NAT in any production environment. IPv6 and NAT IPv6...
View ArticleVXLAN with VyOS and Ubuntu 18.04
VXLAN Virtual Extensible LAN uses encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 UDP datagrams. More on this can be found on the link provided. For a Ceph and...
View ArticleCreating a Management Routing Instance (VRF) on Juniper QFX5100
For a Ceph cluster I have two Juniper QFX5100 switches running as a Virtual Chassis. This Virtual Chassis is currently only performing L2 forwarding, but I want to move this to a L3 setup where the QFX...
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