[Libguestfs] Re: appliance not getting ipv4 assigned when host kernel has CONFIG_IPV6_SIT builtin
On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 02:33:43PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:15:58 +0100
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> If passt is like slirp, then it would originate connections itself
> (ie. calling connect(2) on the host side), so I don't understand how
> the address family would be relevant.
Indeed, it does that, but it needs to pass an address (including family)
to connect(2), and that's the destination address of the original
connection as seen from the guest. You can't connect to 88.198.0.164
using IPv6.
OK I see, thanks. Isn't there some IPv4-in-IPv6 thing passt could do
in this case? Or could passt choose the right address family to use
in connect(2) based on the address that the appliance passes across?
I think also we're confusing what happens on the host with what
happens in the appliance a bit (or maybe I am). Inside the appliance
I'd like to go for this simple change:
- iface=$(ls -I all -I default -I lo /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf)
+ iface=$(ls -I all -I default -I lo -I sit0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf)
Is there anything that needs to happen on the host side?
Rich.
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