[SLOF] [PATCH 0/6] net-snk: More IPv6 fixes and improvements

[Alexey Kardashevskiy]

On 01/14/2016 10:10 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Here are some more bug fixes and improvements for the IPv6 code
> in SLOF:
> First patch takes care of getting rid of some junk bytes at the
> end of IPv6 TFTP packets (similar to the problem I recently fixed
> with DHCPv6 packets).
> The next two patches are required that SLOF properly sends IPv6
> with non-link-local unicast addresses (if available), which is
> needed for example if the TFTP server is not on the same link
> as the client.
> The following patches are minor cleanup and finally a patch that
> allows to use stateless address autoconfiguration also when the
> TFTP server address and bootfile name have been specified manually.
>
>   Cheers,
>    Thomas
>
>
> Thomas Huth (6):
>    net-snk: Remove junk at the end of IPv6 TFTP ACK and error packets
>    net-snk: Fix the check for link-local addresses when receiving RAs
>    net-snk: Prefer non-link-local unicast IPv6 addresses if possible
>    net-snk: Move global variable definition out of the header file
>    net-snk: Simplify the ip6_is_multicast() function
>    net-snk: Allow stateless autoconfig IPv6 addresses with IP_INIT_IPV6_MANUAL


Thanks, applied.

How did you test the 6/6?

And as I understand, SLOF still cannot get through the default route, only 
loads an image over tftp if the server is in the same network.


>
>   clients/net-snk/app/netapps/netboot.c | 15 +++++++++----
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/dhcpv6.c   |  5 +++++
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/icmpv6.c   |  9 ++++----
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.c     | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ipv6.h     | 26 ++++++++--------------
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ndp.c      | 19 ++++++++++++++++
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/ndp.h      |  1 +
>   clients/net-snk/app/netlib/tftp.c     |  6 ++---
>   8 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
>


-- 
Alexey