From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
CC: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org" 
	<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
        "olaf@aepfle.de" <olaf@aepfle.de>,
        "apw@canonical.com" <apw@canonical.com>,
        "jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] tools: hv: kvp_daemon: make IPv6-only-injection work
Thread-Topic: [PATCH] tools: hv: kvp_daemon: make IPv6-only-injection work
Thread-Index: AQHQE7Dm/HqrMoxqVky8TLtsfjYP+ZyIa2wAgAAE1VA=
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 07:36:16 +0000
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Thanks,
-- Dexuan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dexuan Cui
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 15:34 PM
> To: 'Vitaly Kuznetsov'
> Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-
> devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com;
> jasowang@redhat.com; KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] tools: hv: kvp_daemon: make IPv6-only-injection work
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Vitaly Kuznetsov [mailto:vkuznets@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2014 21:06 PM
> > To: Dexuan Cui
> > Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; driverdev-
> > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; apw@canonical.com;
> > jasowang@redhat.com; KY Srinivasan; Haiyang Zhang
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools: hv: kvp_daemon: make IPv6-only-injection work
> >  ......
> > > +	 * Here "dhcp_enabled" is only for IPv4 according to Hyper-V host
> > team.
> > > +	 *
> > > +	 * In the case the host only injects 1 IPv6 address:
> > > +	 * new_val->dhcp_enabled is true, but we can't pass
> > BOOTPROTO=dhcp to
> > > +	 * the script hv_set_ifconfig, because in some distros (like RHEL7)
> > > +	 * BOOTPROTO=dhcp has a special meaning in the config file (e.g.,
> > > +	 * /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0): the network init
> > program
> > > +	 * ignores any static IP addr information once there is
> > > +	 * BOOTPROTO=dhcp; as a result, IPv6-only injection can't work.
> > > +	 *
> > > +	 * In the case of IPv6-only injection, BOOTPROTO=dhcp doesn't affect
> > > +	 * Ubuntu because it's ignored by the Ubuntu version of
> > > +	 * hv_set_ifconfig and it doesn't seem to have special meaning in
> > > +	 * Ubuntu.
> > > +	 */
> >
> > I just checked and adding "IPV6ADDR=something" when
> "BOOTPROTO=dhcp"
> > works for me with both RHEL7 and Fedora21.
> It doesn't work in my side. :-(
> Running 'ifup eth0' shows some errors(I use "set -x")
> ...
> + /sbin/dhclient -H localhost -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient--eth0.lease -pf
> /var/run/dhclient-eth0.pid eth0
> grep: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: Permission dinied.
BTW, I run with root, and
'chown 777 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" doesn't help.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan
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