Hi Team,
I am trying to use iPXE on a Cisco UCS C220-M5 machine. The machine uses the NIC model- UCS VIC 1457. Whatever I do I cannot get networking up using IPv6 from within iPXE. I tried to use both SLAAC and Stateful DHCPv6 approach for obtaining IPv6 address, but both don't work. In order to make sure it is not an IPv6 setup issue, I tried to obtain an IPv6 address using both approaches from within a Linux VM. This worked.
When I initiate a PXE boot over IPv6 the below steps happen:
- PXE boot over IPv6 is kickstarted.
- DHCPv6 server (isc-dhcp-server6 service running in an ubuntu VM) provides an IPv6 address along with the details of bootfile-url - ipxe.efi (Router Solicitation, Router advertisement, Request, DHCPv6 Solicit, DHCPv6 Advertise, DHCPv6 Request and DHCPv6 Reply related messages can be seen in the log).
- The UCS machine downloads and loads ipxe.efi (and along the journey the IPv6 address obtained in step 2 is released).
- As soon as NBP is loaded, it attempts to set up network - and this fails
When I try to manually setup ipv6 address from iPXE console, what I can see is: Router Solicitation and Router Advertisement steps as mentioned in https://www.networkacademy.io/ccna/ipv6/stateful-dhcpv6 works. But further steps (DHCPv6 Solicit, DHCPv6 Advertise, DHCPv6 Request and DHCPv6 Reply) doesn't happen.
I cannot find any cisco related ipxe driver in https://ipxe.org/appnote/hardware_drivers . Could this be a cisco NIC compatibility issue with ipxe?
Would appreciate any help with this. I am kind of stuck with the issue for the past many weeks.
Thanks!
