Add support for an empty Gateway= in [Network] to clear the existing
routes. This change will allow users to remove the default route from a
drop-in file.
`systemd.network(5)` recommends “that each filename is prefixed with a number
smaller than "70" (e.g. 10-eth0.network)”.
Reduce that used by the example accordingly, but stay above the number (`50`)
used in the earlier example for static configuration, so that would take
precedence over the dynamic one if both match for the same network.
Let's synthesize DNS RRs for leases handed out by our DHCP server. This
way local VMs can have resolvable hostnames locally.
This does not implement reverse look ups for now. We can add this
later in similar fashion.
This adds a new `Hostname=` option to the [DHCPServerStaticLease]
section in .network files, allowing an administrator to assign a
specific hostname to a client receiving a static lease.
We automatically select the correct DHCP option to use based on the
format of the provided string:
- Single DNS labels are sent as Option 12.
- Names with multiple DNS labels are sent as Option 81 in wire format.
Fixes: #39634
Implements DHCP option 15 (Domain Name) for systemd-networkd's DHCP
server, allowing administrators to configure the DNS default domain that
clients should use.
This addresses the feature request in issue #37077, where users needed
to manually configure domain names using
SendOption=15:string:example.com as a workaround.
This adds two new configuration options to the [DHCPServer] section:
- EmitDomain= (boolean): whether to send domain name to clients
- Domain= (string): the domain name to send (e.g., "example.com")
Example configuration:
[DHCPServer] EmitDomain=yes Domain=example.com
This eliminates the need for manual workarounds using
SendOption=15:string:...
Fixes#37077
This changes the instances of lexical to lexicographic, thus making it easier
to grep for instances of lexicographic order, since there's only one variant of
the word to consider.
Lexicographic is chosen since there are slightly fewer instances of lexical and
lexicographic seems a better fit than lexical after checking a few
dictionaries.
The words lexical, lexicographic, and lexicographical are synonyms in
computing, meaning an alphabetical order. Both the Oxford dictionary and
Merriam-Webster make no distinction between lexicographic and lexicographical,
with only Wiktionary adding a more precise meaning of
Meeting lexicographical standards or requirements; worthy of being included
in a dictionary. [1]
Since, outside of computing, lexicographic(al) has the more specific meaning
pertaining to lexicography, i.e. the editing or making of dictionaries [2], and
lexical only has this as a secondary meaning after its linguistic meaning [3],
lexicographic fits the meaning of including and ordering entries better.
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lexicographical#English
[2] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lexicographic
[3] https://www.oed.com/dictionary/lexical_adj
With 9ccc369ff3, PersistLeases= is
disabled on the host side virtual interfaces for containers.
However, even it is not necessary to save the leases for containers
on a persistent storage, still we should save them on somewhere.
Otherwise, leases will be lost when networkd on the host is restarted
or the host side interface is reconfigured.
This introduce PersistLeases=runtime to save and load leases on runtime
storage.
Add the following network option to enable BOOTP:
[DHCPv4]
Bootp=yes
This will allow a two message request / reply sequence that doesn't
require DHCP message types.
Co-authored-by: Avram Dorfman <dorfman@est.org>
Document .link .network and .netdev file type distinctions in early
introductory text, and document distro-specific need to sync link files
with early-boot copies, see Debian bug 1005282:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005282 for an
example.
The original timeout of 7 seconds is very long for today's networks. Reduce it
to 200ms. Note that this change also affects IPv4 link-local addressing.
RFC 5227 specifies randomized intervals to avoid that a large number of hosts
powered up at the same time send their message simultaneously. Performing the
conflict detection takes a variable time between 4 and 7 seconds from the
beginning to the first announcement, as shown by the following diagram where P
indicates a probe and A an announcement:
time(s) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
SHORTEST P P P A A
LONGEST P P P A A
The host can't use the address until the first announcement is sent. 7 seconds
is a very long time on modern computers especially considering the fact that
the round-trip time on current LAN technologies is at most few milliseconds.
Section 2.2 of the RFC addresses this matter and hints that a future standard
will adjust those timeouts; however that standard doesn't exist yet.
Make the timeout configurable via a new IPv4DuplicateAddressDetectionTimeoutSec=
option. The intervals defined in the RFC are then scaled proportionally so that
the duration of the conflict detection takes at most the given value. Interval
happening after the first announcement are not scaled, as recommended by the
RFC.
We can run sd-ipv4ll/sd-ipv4acd also on an interface with IFF_NOARP
flag, but that may cause address conflict with other hosts.
Let's enable ARPing when sd-ipv4ll/sd-ipv4acd are enabled unless ARP= is
explicitly disabled.
This fixes some typos in the documentation, both grammar as well as
incorrect field names.
It also changes the casing of CheckSum to Checksum in L2TP to match
other casings.
- Also configures route to the gateway and prefix route in the specified
table, if necessary.
- Also set preferred source address of the route.
Closes#36168.
Since linux commit a35ec8e38cdd1766f29924ca391a01de20163931 ("bridge:
Add MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) support"), included since v6.2, it
is possible to enable MAC Authentication Bypass for bridge ports. In
this mode the locked port learns again, but the learned fdb entries are
locked, allowing user space to unlock hosts based seen MAC addresses.
This requires learning to be enabled on the port, and link-local
learning disabled for the bridge.
Add support to systemd-network for setting the new attribute for bridge
ports.
Since linux commit a21d9a670d81103db7f788de1a4a4a6e4b891a0b ("net:
bridge: Add support for bridge port in locked mode"), included since
v5.18, it is possible to set bridge ports to locked.
Locked ports do not learn automatically, and discard any traffic from
unknown source MACs. To allow traffic, the userspace authenticator is
expected to create fdb entries for authenticated hosts.
Add support to systemd-network for setting the new attribute for bridge
ports.
With the following, now preferred source address is set to the DHCP
address.
====
[Route]
Gatewa=_dhcp4
Table=100
====
Before:
====
$ ip route show table 100 default
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp metric 1024
====
After:
====
$ ip route show table 100 default
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto dhcp src 192.168.0.100 metric 1024
====
To avoid the assignment, this also introduces PreferredSource=no.
Typically, the same client identifier setting is used for all
interfaces. Hence, better to provide the system-wide setting to specify
the client identifier.
In the troff output, this doesn't seem to make any difference. But in the
html output, the whitespace is sometimes preserved, creating an additional
gap before the following content. Drop it everywhere to avoid this.
This option will control the use of DNR for choosing DNS servers on the
link. Defaults to the value of UseDNS so that in most cases they will be
toggled together.
