IPv6: Mikrotik: DHCPv6

Summary

Standards: RFC 3315, RFC 3633
Package: dhcp,ipv6

Starting from v5.9 DHCP-PD server is moved to /ipv6 sub menu

Single DUID is used for client and server identification, only IAID will vary between cients corresponding to their assigned interface.

Client binding creates dynamic pool with timeout set to binding's expiration time (note that now dynamic pools can have a timeout), which will be updated every time binding gets renewed.

When client is bound to prefix, DHCP server adds routing information to know how to reach assigned prefix.

Client bindings in server does not show MAC address anymore (as it was in v5.8), DUID (hex) and IAID are used instead. After upgrade MAC addresses will be converted to DUIDs automatically, but due to unknown DUID type and unknown IAID, they should be further updated by user;

General

Sub-menu: /ipv6 dhcp-server

This sub menu lists and allows to configure DHCP-PD servers.

Properties

Template:Mr-arg-table

Read-only Properties

Bindings

Sub-menu: /ipv6 dhcp-server binding

DUID is used only for dynamic bindings, so if it changes then client will receive different prefix than previously.

Template:Mr-arg-table-h

Read-only properties

For example, dynamically assigned /62 prefix

[admin@RB493G] /ipv6 dhcp-server binding> print detail 
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic 
 0 D address=2a02:610:7501:ff00::/62 duid="1605fcb400241d1781f7" iaid=0 
     server=local-dhcp life-time=3d status=bound expires-after=2d23h40m10s 
     last-seen=19m50s 

 1 D address=2a02:610:7501:ff04::/62 duid="0019d1393535" iaid=2 
     server=local-dhcp life-time=3d status=bound expires-after=2d23h43m47s 
     last-seen=16m13s 

Rate limiting

It is possible to set a bandwidth to a specific IPv6 address by using DHCPv6 bindings. This can be done by setting a rate limit on the DHCPv6 binding itself, by doing this a dynamic simple queue rule will be added for the IPv6 address that corresponds to the DHCPv6 binding. By using the rate-limit parameter you can conveniently limit a user's bandwidth.

First, make the DHCPv6 binding static, otherwise it will not be possible to set a rate limit to a DHCPv6 binding:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ipv6 dhcp-server binding print 
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic 
 #   ADDRESS                      DUID                      SERVER                      STATUS 
 0 D fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66     0x6c3b6b7c413e            DHCPv6_Server               bound

[admin@MikroTik] > /ipv6 dhcp-server binding make-static 0

[admin@MikroTik] > /ipv6 dhcp-server binding print
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic 
 #   ADDRESS                      DUID                      SERVER                      STATUS 
 0   fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66     0x6c3b6b7c413e            DHCPv6_Server               bound  

Then you need can set a rate to a DHCPv6 binding that will create a new dynamic simple queue entry:

[admin@MikroTik] > /ipv6 dhcp-server binding set 0 rate-limit=10M/10

[admin@MikroTik] > /queue simple print     
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0  D name="dhcp<6c3b6b7c413e fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66>" target=fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66 parent=none packet-marks="" priority=8/8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=10M/10M max-limit=10M/10M burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 
      burst-time=0s/0s bucket-size=0.1/0.1 

If allow-dual-stack-queue is enabled, then a single dynamic simple queue entry will be created containing both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses:

[admin@MikroTik] > /queue simple print 
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid, D - dynamic 
 0  D name="dhcp-ds<6C:3B:6B:7C:41:3E>" target=192.168.1.200/32,fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66 parent=none packet-marks="" priority=8/8 queue=default-small/default-small limit-at=10M/10M max-limit=10M/10M burst-limit=0/0 burst-threshold=0/0 
      burst-time=0s/0s bucket-size=0.1/0.1 

RADIUS Support

Since RouterOS v6.43 it is possible to use RADIUS to assign a rate-limit per DHCPv6 binding, to do so you need to pass the Mikrotik-Rate-Limit attribute from your RADIUS Server for your DHCPv6 binding. To achieve this you first need to set your DHCPv6 Server to use RADIUS for assigning bindings. Below is an example how to set it up:

/radius
add address=10.0.0.1 secret=VERYsecret123 service=dhcp
/ipv6 dhcp-server
set dhcp1 use-radius=yes

After that you need to tell your RADIUS Server to pass the Mikrotik-Rate-Limit attribute. In case you are using FreeRADIUS with MySQL, then you need to add appropriate entries into radcheck and radreply tables for a MAC address, that is being used for your DHCPv6 Client. Below is an example for table entries:

INSERT INTO `radcheck` (`username`, `attribute`, `op`, `value`) VALUES
('000c4200d464', 'Auth-Type', ':=', 'Accept'),

INSERT INTO `radreply` (`username`, `attribute`, `op`, `value`) VALUES
('000c4200d464', 'Delegated-IPv6-Prefix', '=', 'fdb4:4de7:a3f8:418c::/66'),
('000c4200d464', 'Mikrotik-Rate-Limit', '=', '10M');

Configuration Examples

Enabling IPv6 Prefix delegation

Lets consider that we already have running DHCP server.

To enable IPv6 prefix delegation, first we need to create address pool

/ipv6 pool add name=myPool prefix=2001:db8:7501::/60  prefix-length=62

Notice that prefix-length is 62 bits, it means that clients will receive /62 prefixes from the /60 pool.

Next step is to enable DHCP-PD.

/ipv6 dhcp-server add name=myServer address-pool=myPool interface=local

To test our server we will set up wide-dhcpv6 on ubuntu machine:

• install wide-dhcpv6-client
• edit "/etc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf" as above

interface eth2{
  send ia-pd 0;
};

id-assoc pd {
   prefix-interface eth3{
   sla-id 1;
   sla-len 2;
   };
};

• Run DHCP-PD client

sudo dhcp6c -d -D -f eth2

• Verify that prefix was added to eth3

mrz@bumba:/media/aaa$ ip -6 addr
..
2: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qlen 1000
    inet6 2001:db8:7501:1:200:ff:fe00:0/64 scope global 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 fe80::224:1dff:fe17:81f7/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

• You can make binding to specific client static, so that it always receives the same prefix

[admin@RB493G] /ipv6 dhcp-server binding> print 
Flags: X - disabled, D - dynamic 
 #   ADDRESS                                        DU       IAID SER.. STATUS 
 0 D 2001:db8:7501:1::/62                      16          0 loc.. bound 
[admin@RB493G] /ipv6 dhcp-server binding> make-static 0

• DHCP-PD also installs route to assigned prefix into IPv6 routing table

[admin@RB493G] /ipv6 route> print 
Flags: X - disabled, A - active, D - dynamic, C - connect, S - static, r - rip, o - ospf, b - bgp, U -  unreachable 
 #      DST-ADDRESS              GATEWAY                  DISTANCE

...

 2 ADS  2001:db8:7501:1::/62     fe80::224:1dff:fe17:8...        1