openwisp / openwisp/openwisp-controller
[bug] Wireguard template auto tunnel provisioning breaks using IPV6
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Description
Setting up a Wireguard VPN and using an IPV6 network from OW IPAM works well.
When you then configure the client template to be able to associate client routers to the IPV6 VPN it doesn't work out.
What happens:
After going through the steps here: https://openwisp.io/docs/user/wireguard.html#create-vpn-client-template-for-wireguard-vpn-server
On step six after clicking on save and continue the template is populated with IPV4 instead of IPV6.

If you change the setting to IPV6 the address field is zeroed out and if you put the same thing back in that field that was there before changing to IPV6 you get an error after clicking save.
Invalid configuration triggered by "#/interfaces/0", validator says:
{'type': 'wireguard', 'private_key': '{{pvt_key_6fdfa88ac4e546c89c5cf8df22a1a0f1}}', 'port': 51820, 'mtu': 1420, 'nohostroute': False, 'fwmark': '', 'ip6prefix': [], 'addresses': [{'proto': 'static', 'family': 'ipv6', 'address': '{{ip_address_6fdfa88ac4e546c89c5cf8df22a1a0f1}}', 'mask': 128}], 'name': 'wg0', 'network': ''} is not valid under any of the given schemas
Expected behavior is that Autoconfigure should determine that the IPAM is IPV6 not IPV4 and accept the replacement var as is.
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Research direction
Start with the WireGuard client-template flow described in the linked documentation, especially step six and the Autoconfigure behavior. Reproduce the IPv6 IPAM setup, trace why the template is populated with IPv4 and why the IPv6 replacement variable fails validation, and confirm that Autoconfigure accepts the IPv6 configuration without the reported schema error.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- django, python
- Domain
- networking
- Issue type
- Bug
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- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
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- 48/100