[ipxe-devel] IPv6 is broken in iPXE

Michael Brown mcb30 at ipxe.org
Mon Nov 26 15:21:55 UTC 2018


On 01/11/2018 23:16, Pali Rohár wrote:
> I'm trying to use iPXE on IPv6-enabled network. Everything is running
> fine on this network, all IPv4 and IPv6 application, just iPXE has
> problems. It cannot connect to any host which has both
> 
> IPv6 router send RA packet without Autonomous bit (=disable SLAAC) and
> with Managed and Other bits (= use DHCPv6 for IPv6 address assignment).
> 
> Also on network is available standard IPv4 connection via DHCP.
> 
> When iPXE is run on this network with enabled NET_PROTO_IPV6 then it
> cannot connect to any host, just show error message: Network
> unreachable.

Is this the same problem as reported on IRC, where the network is 
advertising IPv6 addresses but has no IPv6 connectivity to the outside 
world?

Michael



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