[ipxe-devel] display ipv6 address from interface

Vasiliy Tolstov v.tolstov at selfip.ru
Tue Apr 22 15:08:31 UTC 2014


2014-04-22 19:00 GMT+04:00 Michael Brown <mcb30 at ipxe.org>:
> iPXE does have the ability to format IPv6 addresses as part of settings, for
> example ${dns6:ipv6} (or just ${dns6}) will show the IPv6 DNS server address
> (if any).
>
> However, there is no straightforward IPv6 equivalent of "the IPv4 address"
> for a network device.  Under IPv6, each interface is likely to have at least
> two addresses: the link-local address and a global address assigned via NDP
> or stateful DHCPv6.  There can be an arbitrary number of global addresses
> for an interface, if the local routers happen to advertise multiple
> prefixes.

If i need only SLAAC ipv6 address, how can i get it ?


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