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

[Marin Hannache]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 06:09:19PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote:
> 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)

Hello,

I already implemented ipv6 address and routing table management via a
dedicated settings space. Since theses settings can be updated in the
background, the config UI must be modified to handle such updates
otherwise it may crash.

See commit 442cf70 in the ipv6 branch of my repository :
  https://git.ipxe.org/people/mareo/ipxe.git/commit/442cf704f534522a8cab90f549dcfd747dd2de8d


Regards,
-- 
Mareo