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

Geert Stappers stappers at stappers.nl
Thu Mar 1 12:46:52 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 12:26:40PM +0000, Michael Brown wrote:
> On 07/02/18 18:41, Michael Brown wrote:
> >On 07/02/18 07:16, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> >>On 02/07/2018 03:06 AM, Michael Brown wrote:
> >>>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!
> 
> Upon testing: this patch allows the user to show the (first) prefix
> within a router advertisement, but setting it has no effect.
> Is this expected?

I think it is. That is based upon
> >>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.


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