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soc:2011:pcmattman:notes:start [2011/06/06 04:21]
pcmattman added ipv6 command to example script
soc:2011:pcmattman:notes:start [2011/07/31 18:11]
pcmattman updates to the basic documentation already written
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   * [[http://​www.faqs.org/​rfcs/​rfc2462.html|RFC 2462 (IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration)]]   * [[http://​www.faqs.org/​rfcs/​rfc2462.html|RFC 2462 (IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration)]]
   * [[http://​www.faqs.org/​rfcs/​rfc3315.html|RFC 3315 (DHCPv6)]]   * [[http://​www.faqs.org/​rfcs/​rfc3315.html|RFC 3315 (DHCPv6)]]
 +  * [[http://​wiki.tools.ietf.org/​html/​rfc5970|RFC 5970 (DHCPv6 Network boot options)]]
  
 ==== Code ==== ==== Code ====
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 ==== Setting up IPv6 on your network ==== ==== Setting up IPv6 on your network ====
  
-To work with IPv6 in gPXE on your network, you will need both an IPv6 prefix and a router advertisement daemon. DHCPv6 ​support is coming soon!+To work with IPv6 in gPXE on your network, you will need both an IPv6 prefix and a router advertisement daemon. ​If you like, you can set up DHCPv6 ​for your network for address assignment. A router advertisement daemon will still be required for routing, but in the future DHCPv6 will offer boot filenames and other boot-related options.
  
-The best place to get an IPv6 is your ISP, but if your ISP does not offer IPv6, [[http://​www.tunnelbroker.net|Hurricane Electric]] offers a fairly stable and easy-to-use tunnel. HE also provides configuration commands for a wide range of operating systems.+The best place to get an IPv6 is your ISP, but if your ISP does not offer IPv6, [[http://​www.tunnelbroker.net|Hurricane Electric]] offers a fairly stable and easy-to-use tunnel. HE also provides configuration commands for a wide range of operating systems. These should be able to be copied and pasted into a terminal on your workstation to set up IPv6 connectivity quickly and easily. There are a variety of tutorials on the internet that will cover adding router advertisements and/or DHCPv6 to an IPv6 tunnel.
  
-Once your network ​is IPv6-enabled, you will need a router advertisement daemon to advertise ​the prefix you have been assignedThese router advertisements allow hosts to autoconfigure themselves where a  DHCPv6 server is not present. +Booting over IPv6 in gPXE is quite simple: instead of using the '​dhcp'​ command (ala IPv4), you use the '​ipv6'​ commandThis obtains an address and sets up routing for IPv6 so that you can use IPv6 servers.
- +
-Note that currently IPv6 in gPXE will not work properly on IPv6 networks with DHCPv6 ​servers.+
  
 You can use the following script to test gPXE's HTTP boot over IPv6: You can use the following script to test gPXE's HTTP boot over IPv6:
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 #!gpxe #!gpxe
 ipv6 any ipv6 any
-kernel http://ipv6.theiselins.net/​gpxe/​bz2bzImage root=100 +kernel http://flash6.etherboot.org/​gpxe/​bz2bzImage root=100 
-initrd http://ipv6.theiselins.net/​gpxe/​initrd.bz2+initrd http://flash6.etherboot.org/​gpxe/​initrd.bz2
 boot boot
 </​code>​ </​code>​
 +
 +(note: flash6 may need these image files uploaded - TODO!)
  
 This should boot a Linux kernel. This should boot a Linux kernel.
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 +If you don't have a DNS name for an IPv6 host, you can boot from an IPv6 address using the following syntax:
 +<​code>​
 +http://​[2001:​ab:​cd:​ef::​1]:​1234/​file.bin
 +</​code>​
 +
 +Note that [[http://​msdn.microsoft.com/​en-us/​library/​aa921042.aspx|zero compression ("​Compressing Zeroes"​ section)]] can be used for all IPv6 addresses.

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