[ipxe-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ndp: make IPv6 prefix user-settable

[Michael Brown]

On 07/02/18 07:16, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 02/07/2018 03:06 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
>> On 05/02/18 08:36, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>>> NDP will discover the IPv6 on-link prefix, so we should make
>>> it user-settable.
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out the use case for this, but without any luck so
>> far.  Could you give an example of how this might be used?
>>
> Simple; botched IPv6 environment.
> But primarily the use-case here is debugging; without this patch the
> IPv6 prefix is not visible when checking the network parameters from the
> shell.

OK, that makes sense.  Thanks for clarifying!

Michael