L2-announcements lack ipv6-support

[jonasbartho]

Is your proposed feature related to a problem?

Yes, I do not want to use MetalLB when using the Cilium-network stack in k8s. When using Cilium's L2-announcements, it seems very pointless to use MetalLB additionally in this scenario just for ipv6.(then I could drop L2-announcements all-together and use MetalLB instead)

Describe the feature you'd like

One of the following limitations of L2-announcements states the following:

The feature currently does not support IPv6/NDP.

Is there any way to assign somebody to fix this? This would lead to a lot of people dropping using MetalLB(me included).

[aditighag]

/cc @dylandreimerink Not sure if this falls under sig/agent or sig/datapath.

[dylandreimerink]

Not sure if this falls under sig/agent or sig/datapath.

Both, to implement this we need to add

• gratuitous ICMPv6 advertisements (if that exists) in the agents
• logic in the agent to reconcile IPv6 IPs to a new map
• a new reponder map
• and the datapath logic to respond to the ICMPv6 equivalent of arp queries, based on IPs in the responder map.

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[PKizzle]

Is there any news regarding this issue? I do not think it should go stale.

[YutaroHayakawa]

Let me pin this issue. Also, contribution is appreciated.

[maxpain]

Any ETA for this?

[margamanterola]

This issue has no assignee, which means that nobody is working on this issue at the moment and there is no ETA. As Yutaro mentioned, contributions are appreciated.