I configured one of my LAB routers to make use of DHCPv6
vyos@vyos# show interfaces ethernet eth0 { duplex auto hw-id 00:50:56:00:00:fa smp-affinity auto speed auto vif 202 { address dhcp address dhcpv6 } }
An IPv6 address is assigend as shown by:
vyos@vyos:~$ show interfaces ethernet Codes: S - State, L - Link, u - Up, D - Down, A - Admin Down Interface IP Address S/L Description --------- ---------- --- ----------- eth0 - u/u eth0.202 172.18.202.10/24 u/u 2001:db8:202::199/64
vyos@vyos:~$ show interfaces ethernet eth0 vif 202 eth0.202@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:50:56:00:00:fa brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 172.18.202.10/24 brd 172.18.202.255 scope global eth0.202 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 2001:db8:202::199/64 scope global valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::250:56ff:fe00:fa/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 310719 4181 0 0 0 3 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collisions 562266 3813 0 0 0 0
But the show dhcpv6 client leases command fails
vyos@vyos:~$ show dhcpv6 client leases There are no DHCPv6 leases.
vyos@vyos:~$ ls -la /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_v6_* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 Mar 8 18:43 /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_v6_eth0.202.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450 Mar 8 18:43 /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_v6_eth0.202.leases -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5 Mar 8 18:43 /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_v6_eth0.202.pid
Shows that the file /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_v6_eth0.202_leases is missing as required by /opt/vyatta/sbin/dhcpv6-client-show-leases.pl