[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 4/7] ipv6: Allow manual network configuration

[Michael Brown]

On 01/04/15 08:26, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Not on every system IPv6 autoconfiguration is working properly,
> so allow for manual network configuration here.
> Note: this configures the global route only. Link-local routes
> are configured automatically.

I like the idea of being able to configure an IPv6 address manually. 
The major reason that I didn't already implement this is that having 
${ip6} etc creates an expectation that the user should be able to 
retrieve the autoconfigured IPv6 addresses via these settings, as can be 
done for IPv4.

The difficulty then is that IPv6 allows for multiple addresses per 
interface, so we would need some sensible syntax to allow for access to 
the multiple addresses (or accept that only one address could be 
retrieved in this way, in which case the question becomes which address 
it is).

Michael