[ECOS] Re: IPv6 fails when IPv4 not configured

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards@gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 18:19:00 GMT 2013


On 2013-06-19, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-06-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How do I get the network stack to create and configure an IPv6
>> link-local address for the interface?  It seems that configuring the
>> interface with a static IPv6 address does that as a "side effect". How
>> do I get that to happen without configuring a static IPv6 address?
>
> No ideas on how to get the link local address initialized in IPv6?

I found a work-around: I added an address of ff01::1 to the interace
with a lifetime of 1 second.  That seems to be enough to get the
link-local address assigned and the link local routes added.

You shouldn't have to do that...

> Any ideas on how to add an IPv6 route so I can try adding the ff02::
> multicast route manually?
>
> Is there any documentation for the eCos IPv6 APIs?

Apparently, no.

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