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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear developers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I built a version of „snponly.efi” based on source checked out 2017-03-08 with last commit d9886f1961f9970b4354442e84b98727b69cd73a<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I attach my 2 local header files: console.h and general.h located in <ipxe root>/src/config/local<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Running the following make command:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> make bin-x86_64-efi/snponly.efi EMBED=retry_dhcp_ipv6.ipxe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’ve attach the embedded ipxe-file as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Now describing the actual issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Same symptoms can be seen on physical devices as well as on virtual (VMware 6.0 ESXi virtual machine with Intel E1000(E))<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Therefore I ran most of my tests on virtual devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I boot the machine via PXE-boot and chain load iPXE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">iPXE gets loaded<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I get an IPv4 and an IPv6 address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Pinging the http and DNS Server using IPv4 and IPv6 – it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an DNS lookup via IPv4 to a Windows 2012r2 Server- it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an DNS lookup via IPv6 to a Windows 2012r2 Server - it does NOT work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an http download via IPv4 from a Windows 2012r2 Server - it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an http download via IPv6 from a Windows 2012r2 Server - it does NOT work<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an http download via IPv6 from a Linux Server - it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I try to make an http download via IPv6 from a Linux/Unix Server (Google DNS-Server 2001:4860:4860::8888) - it works<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I assume there is a certain issue between the IPv6 iPXE implementation and the Windows IPv6 implementation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Windows DNS and Web Server works without problem for about 100 Linux und Windows Hosts using IPv6 as their primary protocol.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Roland <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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