[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 3/7] ipv6: Update link-local route when configuring network device

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 04/24/2015 06:54 PM, Michael Brown wrote:
> On 01/04/15 08:26, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> The IPv6 link-local address is generated during probing.
>> So if the link-local address of the hardware is changed
>> later on the IPv6 link-local address will become incorrect.
>> So we should set the link-local route for IPv6 before
>> before the network configuration is started; this way
>> we will always have a correct link-local address.
> 
> I think this approach would prevent the use of a link-local address
> unless the user initiates autoconfiguration: you would no longer be
> able to to just ifopen and immediately connect to a server via a
> link-local address.
> 
Well, given that just calling "ifopen" didn't work for me (otherwise
I probably never would have started this patchset :-) I haven't
really thought about it; will check what can be done here.

Cheers,

Hannes
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