RFC3315 defines DHCPv6 option 16 (vendor class identifier) but does
not define any direct relationship with the roughly equivalent DHCPv4
option 60.
The PXE specification predates IPv6, and the UEFI specification is
expectedly vague on the subject. Examination of the reference EDK2
codebase suggests that the DHCPv6 vendor class identifier will be
formatted in accordance with RFC3315, using a single vendor-class-data
item in which the opaque-data field is the string as would appear in
DHCPv4 option 60.
RFC3315 requires the vendor class identifier to specify an IANA
enterprise number, as a way of disambiguating the vendor-class-data
namespace. The EDK2 code uses the value 343, described as:
// TODO: IANA TBD: temporarily using Intel's
Since this "TODO" has been present since at least 2010, it is probably
safe to assume that it has now become a de facto standard.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
RFC5970 defines DHCPv6 options 61 (client system architecture type)
and 62 (client network interface identifier), with contents equivalent
to DHCPv4 options 93 and 94 respectively.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Note that IANA has not yet assigned a DHCPv6 option code for the
syslog server. When a code is assigned, the definition of
DHCPV6_LOG_SERVERS should be updated. Until then, an IPv6 address of
a syslog server can be configured manually using e.g.
set syslog6 3ffe:302:11:2::8309
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Our policy is to prefer IPv6 addreses to IPv4 addresses, but to
request IPv6 addresses only if we have an IPv6 address for the name
server itself.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Add support for the stateful and stateless variants of the DHCPv6
protocol. The resulting settings block is registered as
"net<x>.dhcpv6", and DHCPv6 options can be obtained using
e.g. "${net0.dhcpv6/23:ipv6}" to obtain the IPv6 DNS server address.
IPv6 addresses obtained via stateful DHCPv6 are not yet applied to the
network device.
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
Michael Brown