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Enable DHCP option 121 processing
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Description

Hello!
In VyOS 1.2.1 and 1.2.0-rolling+201905130337 if you are configure address dhcp for some interface, configuration scripts create dedicated dhclient.conf for this interface, located in /var/lib/dhcp/. For example:

root@test-06:/home/vyos# cat /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient_eth0.conf 
#
# autogenerated by vyatta-interfaces.pl on Tue May 14 14:32:15 UTC 2019
#
interface "eth0" {
	send host-name "test-06";
	request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers, domain-name, interface-mtu;
}

Then, this configuration used by the dhclient to obtain an IP address.
But, with this autogenerated configuration system can't handle DHCP option 121, which can be processed with default /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf. To make DHCP option 121 operable, we need to apply the next changes:

  1. Generate dhclient.conf with rfc3442-classless-static-routes option.
  2. Patch rfc3442-classless-static-routes hook to process routes with FRRouting, and not "ip" command.

This can be done with the following changes:

diff -Naur origin/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes option-121/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes
--- origin/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes	2019-05-14 19:37:38.003209345 +0300
+++ option-121/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes	2019-05-14 19:50:40.574760057 +0300
@@ -55,8 +55,7 @@
 				fi
 
 				# set route (ip detects host routes automatically)
-				ip -4 route add "${net_address}/${net_length}" \
-					${via_arg} dev "${interface}" >/dev/null 2>&1
+				vtysh -c "configure terminal" -c "ip route ${net_address}/${net_length} ${via_arg} ${interface}" >/dev/null 2>&1
 			done
 		fi
 	fi
diff -Naur origin/opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-interfaces.pl option-121/opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-interfaces.pl
--- origin/opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-interfaces.pl	2019-05-14 19:36:17.968076176 +0300
+++ option-121/opt/vyatta/sbin/vyatta-interfaces.pl	2019-05-14 19:46:13.641637198 +0300
@@ -163,11 +163,12 @@
   my $output = dhcp_conf_header();
   my $hostname = get_hostname();
 
+  $output .= "option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;\n";
   $output .= "interface \"$intf\" {\n";
   if (defined($hostname)) {
     $output .= "\tsend host-name \"$hostname\";\n";
   }
-  $output .= "\trequest subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers";
+  $output .= "\trequest subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers, rfc3442-classless-static-routes";
   my $domainname = is_domain_name_set();
   if (!defined($domainname)) {
     $output .= ", domain-name";

Affected files:
https://github.com/vyos/vyos-replace/blob/current/files/dhclient-script
https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-cfg-system/blob/current/scripts/vyatta-interfaces.pl
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/rfc3442-classless-routes

We need to implement this to solve T1369.

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zsdc changed the task status from Open to Confirmed.May 14 2019, 5:14 PM
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Unknown Object (User) added a comment.Apr 13 2020, 10:04 AM

Test results on the VyOS 1.3-rolling-202004020117:
Basically, the DHCP option 121 is handled as expected but two issues were observed i.e.:

  1. Static routes advertised by the DHCP server in option 121 are not automatically removed from the FIB when the "address dhcp" setting is removed from the interface. Disable/enable the interface doesn't change anything. The only option to get rid of them is to restart the router.

A similar behavior is observed when the "address dhcp" config is replaced with static IP address in one go. In that case disable/enable the interface at least makes them removed from the FIB but they are still present in the FRR as "inactive" . The only option to get rid of them is to restart the router.

Example:
Networks 1.1.1.0/24 and 3.0.0.0/8 are being advertised by the DHCP option 121.

vyos@vyos:~$ show configuration commands | match eth0
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address 'dhcp'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 hw-id '0c:e2:df:b8:cc:00'

vyos@vyos:~$ show ip route 
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       F - PBR, f - OpenFabric,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route, q - queued route, r - rejected route

S>* 1.1.1.0/24 [210/0] via 172.16.0.100, eth0, 00:01:38
S>* 3.0.0.0/8 [210/0] via 172.16.0.101, eth0, 00:01:38
C>* 172.16.0.0/24 is directly connected, eth0, 00:01:39

then the "dhcp" is removed and a new static ip address is configured as 192.168.0.1/24:

vyos@vyos:~$ show configuration commands | match eth0
set interfaces ethernet eth0 address '192.168.0.1/24'
set interfaces ethernet eth0 hw-id '0c:e2:df:b8:cc:00'

vyos@vyos:~$ show ip route 
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       F - PBR, f - OpenFabric,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route, q - queued route, r - rejected route

S>* 1.1.1.0/24 [210/0] via 172.16.0.100, eth0 onlink, 00:00:21
S>* 3.0.0.0/8 [210/0] via 172.16.0.101, eth0 onlink, 00:00:21
C>* 192.168.0.0/24 is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:21

and after disable/enable the interface we get:

vyos@vyos# run show ip route 
Codes: K - kernel route, C - connected, S - static, R - RIP,
       O - OSPF, I - IS-IS, B - BGP, E - EIGRP, N - NHRP,
       T - Table, v - VNC, V - VNC-Direct, A - Babel, D - SHARP,
       F - PBR, f - OpenFabric,
       > - selected route, * - FIB route, q - queued route, r - rejected route

S   1.1.1.0/24 [210/0] via 172.16.0.100, eth0 inactive, 00:00:04
S   3.0.0.0/8 [210/0] via 172.16.0.101, eth0 inactive, 00:00:04
C>* 192.168.0.0/24 is directly connected, eth0, 00:00:04

Proposed solution: delete all routes associated with the interface configured with the "address dhcp" just after this setting is removed from that interface.

  1. Next-hop IP addresses advertised by the DHCP server in option 121 are not being validated in a matter of its reachability. As a result it is possible to inject a route with the next-hop IP address that is not reachable directly from the router. These routes as marked as "inactive" in the FRR and are not being injected into the kernel.

Proposed solution: check if the next-hop ip address belongs to the same network as set on the interface.

Unknown Object (User) closed this task as Resolved.Apr 27 2020, 7:26 PM

The issue has been solved by the above merge.

Do you have a plan to backport it to 1.2?