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Bug 1704308 - Cannot bring up ip6gre tunnel connection via NetworkManager
Summary: Cannot bring up ip6gre tunnel connection via NetworkManager
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 7.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Beniamino Galvani
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Depends On:
Blocks: 1832170
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-04-29 14:11 UTC by Davide F Bragalone
Modified: 2020-05-06 09:09 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: NetworkManager-1.18.0-2.el7
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Clone Of:
: 1832170 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2019-08-06 13:16:56 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2019:2302 0 None None None 2019-08-06 13:17:10 UTC

Description Davide F Bragalone 2019-04-29 14:11:13 UTC 
Description of problem:
Facing issues when a ip6gre tunnel is created via NetworkManager.

Same connection can be created/activated via 'ip' command but not with NetworkManager. Please refer to reproducer section for more info.

It seems that even though nmcli supports that, NM backend does not.

Support was added upstream in NetworkManager version 1.14:

- ip-tunnel: add support for ip6gre and ip6gretap tunnel connections
https://github.com/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/3f9f9f7fa228615967efd6000804f30011f33576


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL7.6
NetworkManager-1.12.0-8.el7_6.x86_64

How reproducible:


# nmcli connection add type ip-tunnel autoconnect yes ifname foobar mode ip6gre local fd01::170 remote fd02::172 con-name mytunnel0

# nmcli connection up mytunnel0 
Error: Connection activation failed: Failed to find a compatible device for this connection


Actual results:
Cannot bring up connection, always getting above error about device.

Expected results:
Being able to configure and use ip6gre tunnel via NetworkManager.



Additional info:

nmcli supports ip6gre type though:
# nmcli connection add type ip-tunnel mode 
gre     ip6gre  ip6ip6  ipip    ipip6   isatap  sit     vti     vti6


In RHEL8 works (NM version (1.14.0-14.el8.x86_64):

# nmcli con sh
NAME                UUID                                  TYPE      DEVICE 
Wired connection 1  a7b25632-c300-31fa-8b6e-b44ed03c29d9  ethernet  ens3   

# nmcli connection add type ip-tunnel con-name gre6msk mode ip6gre local fc00::10:10 remote fc00::10:11 ipv4.method disabled ifname gre123
Connection 'gre6msk' (24700519-33e5-4be8-afdd-2eb659f2591d) successfully added.

# nmcli con sh 
NAME                UUID                                  TYPE       DEVICE 
Wired connection 1  a7b25632-c300-31fa-8b6e-b44ed03c29d9  ethernet   ens3   
gre6msk             24700519-33e5-4be8-afdd-2eb659f2591d  ip-tunnel  gre123
Comment 3 Beniamino Galvani 2019-04-30 12:30:39 UTC 
Hi, ip6gre tunnels are supported by NM on RHEL 7.7.
Comment 4 Davide F Bragalone 2019-04-30 12:43:29 UTC 
Hello Beniamino,

Thanks for the quick answer. May I ask you if this implementation was tracked by any BZ? If yes could you point me to that? I tried to look for it with no luck.

Thanks again,
Davide
Comment 5 Beniamino Galvani 2019-04-30 12:54:03 UTC 
The enhancement was request on the upstream bugzilla:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796645

As you already noticed, the commit was included in NM 1.14:

  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/2ee76c88c10c109d7607501033097a0a762f9687

RHEL 7.7 ships NM 1.18 so the feature is available there.
Comment 6 Davide F Bragalone 2019-04-30 13:15:41 UTC 
Thanks a lot for the info.

Regards,
Davide
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-08-06 13:16:56 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2302
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