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diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml index a27f2ff99e..e6dedb027d 100644 --- a/man/systemd.network.xml +++ b/man/systemd.network.xml @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ name in <filename>/usr/lib</filename>. This can be used to override a system-supplied configuration file with a local file if needed. As a special case, an empty file (file size 0) or symlink - with the same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename>, - disable the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para> + with the same name pointing to <filename>/dev/null</filename> + disables the configuration file entirely (it is "masked").</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> @@ -227,7 +227,14 @@ <literal>yes</literal>, <literal>no</literal>, <literal>ipv4</literal>, or <literal>ipv6</literal>.</para> - <para>Please note that by default the domain name + <para>Note that DHCPv6 will by default be triggered by Router + Advertisment, if that is enabled, regardless of this parameter. + By enabling DHCPv6 support explicitly, the DHCPv6 client will + be started regardless of the presence of routers on the link, + or what flags the routers pass. See + <literal>IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements=</literal>.</para> + + <para>Furthermore, note that by default the domain name specified through DHCP is not used for name resolution. See option <option>UseDomains=</option> below.</para> </listitem> @@ -263,7 +270,7 @@ <term><varname>IPv6Token=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>An IPv6 address with the top 64 bits unset. When set, indicates the - 64 bits interface part of SLAAC IPv6 addresses for this link. By default + 64-bit interface part of SLAAC IPv6 addresses for this link. By default, it is autogenerated.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -271,8 +278,8 @@ <term><varname>LLMNR=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>A boolean or <literal>resolve</literal>. When true, enables - Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution on the link, when set to - <literal>resolve</literal> only resolution is enabled, but not + Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution on the link. When set to + <literal>resolve</literal>, only resolution is enabled, but not announcement. Defaults to true.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -356,35 +363,34 @@ </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>IPForward=</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Configures IP forwarding for the network - interface. If enabled incoming packets on the network - interface will be forwarded to other interfaces according to - the routing table. Takes either a boolean argument, or the - values <literal>ipv4</literal> or <literal>ipv6</literal>, - which only enables IP forwarding for the specified address - family, or <literal>kernel</literal>, which preserves existing sysctl settings. - This controls the - <filename>net.ipv4.conf.<interface>.forwarding</filename> - and - <filename>net.ipv6.conf.<interface>.forwarding</filename> - sysctl options of the network interface (see <ulink + <listitem><para>Configures IP packet forwarding for the + system. If enabled, incoming packets on any network + interface will be forwarded to any other interfaces + according to the routing table. Takes either a boolean + argument, or the values <literal>ipv4</literal> or + <literal>ipv6</literal>, which only enable IP packet + forwarding for the specified address family. This controls + the <filename>net.ipv4.ip_forward</filename> and + <filename>net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding</filename> sysctl + options of the network interface (see <ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt">ip-sysctl.txt</ulink> for details about sysctl options). Defaults to <literal>no</literal>.</para> - <para>Note: unless this option is turned on, or set to <literal>kernel</literal>, - no IP forwarding is done on this interface, even if this is - globally turned on in the kernel, with the - <filename>net.ipv4.ip_forward</filename>, - <filename>net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding</filename>, and - <filename>net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding</filename> sysctl - options.</para> + <para>Note: this setting controls a global kernel option, + and does so one way only: if a network that has this setting + enabled is set up the global setting is turned on. However, + it is never turned off again, even after all networks with + this setting enabled are shut down again.</para> + + <para>To allow IP packet forwarding only between specific + network interfaces use a firewall.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>IPMasquerade=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Configures IP masquerading for the network - interface. If enabled packets forwarded from the network + interface. If enabled, packets forwarded from the network interface will be appear as coming from the local host. Takes a boolean argument. Implies <varname>IPForward=ipv4</varname>. Defaults to @@ -398,21 +404,48 @@ Privacy Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in IPv6). Takes a boolean or the special values <literal>prefer-public</literal> and - <literal>kernel</literal>. When true enables the privacy + <literal>kernel</literal>. When true, enables the privacy extensions and prefers temporary addresses over public - addresses. When <literal>prefer-public</literal> enables the + addresses. When <literal>prefer-public</literal>, enables the privacy extensions, but prefers public addresses over temporary addresses. When false, the privacy extensions - remain disabled. When <literal>kernel</literal> the kernel's + remain disabled. When <literal>kernel</literal>, the kernel's default setting will be left in place. Defaults to <literal>no</literal>.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>IPv6AcceptRouterAdvertisements=</varname></term> - <listitem><para>Configures Accept Router Advertisements. - This is enabled if local forwarding is disabled. - Disabled if local forwarding is enabled. - Takes a boolean. Defaults to unset. + <listitem><para>Force the setting of the <filename>accept_ra</filename> + (router advertisements) setting for the interface. + When unset, the kernel default is used, and router + advertisements are accepted only when local forwarding + is disabled for that interface. + When router advertisements are accepted, they will + trigger the start of the DHCPv6 client if the relevant + flags are passed, or if no routers are found on the link. + Takes a boolean. If true, router advertisements are + accepted, when false, router advertisements are ignored, + independently of the local forwarding state.</para> + + <para>See + <ulink url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt">ip-sysctl.txt</ulink> + in the kernel documentation, but note that systemd's + setting of <constant>1</constant> corresponds to + kernel's setting of <constant>2</constant>.</para> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>IPv6DuplicateAddressDetection=</varname></term> + <listitem><para>Configures the amount of IPv6 Duplicate + Address Detection (DAD) probes to send. Defaults to unset. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry> + <term><varname>IPv6HopLimit=</varname></term> + <listitem><para>Configures IPv6 Hop Limit. For each router that + forwards the packet, the hop limit is decremented by 1. When the + hop limit field reaches zero, the packet is discarded. + Defaults to unset. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> @@ -519,7 +552,7 @@ <term><varname>Destination=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>The destination prefix of the route. Possibly - followed by a slash and the prefixlength. If omitted, a + followed by a slash and the prefix length. If omitted, a full-length host route is assumed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -527,20 +560,20 @@ <term><varname>Source=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>The source prefix of the route. Possibly followed by - a slash and the prefixlength. If omitted, a full-length + a slash and the prefix length. If omitted, a full-length host route is assumed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>Metric=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>The metric of the route. An unsigned integer</para> + <para>The metric of the route (an unsigned integer).</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><varname>Scope=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>The scope of the route. One of the values <literal>global</literal>, + <para>The scope of the route, which can be <literal>global</literal>, <literal>link</literal> or <literal>host</literal>. Defaults to <literal>global</literal>.</para> </listitem> @@ -632,7 +665,7 @@ <listitem> <para>When true (the default), the static routes will be requested from the DHCP server and added to the routing - table with metric of 1024.</para> + table with a metric of 1024.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -709,7 +742,7 @@ address. <varname>PoolOffset=</varname> takes the offset of the pool from the start of subnet, or zero to use the default value. <varname>PoolSize=</varname> takes the number of IP addresses in the - pool or zero to use the default value. By default the pool starts at + pool or zero to use the default value. By default, the pool starts at the first address after the subnet address and takes up the rest of the subnet, excluding the broadcast address. If the pool includes the server address (the default), this is reserved and not handed @@ -725,7 +758,7 @@ another common time unit, depending on the suffix. The default lease time is used for clients that did not ask for a specific lease time. If a client asks for a lease time longer than the - maximum lease time it is automatically shortened to the + maximum lease time, it is automatically shortened to the specified time. The default lease time defaults to 1h, the maximum lease time to 12h. Shorter lease times are beneficial if the configuration data in DHCP leases changes frequently @@ -745,7 +778,7 @@ pass to clients may be configured with the <varname>DNS=</varname> option, which takes a list of IPv4 addresses. If the <varname>EmitDNS=</varname> option is - enabled but no servers configured the servers are + enabled but no servers configured, the servers are automatically propagated from an "uplink" interface that has appropriate servers set. The "uplink" interface is determined by the default route of the system with the highest @@ -754,9 +787,9 @@ into account that acquire DNS or NTP server information at a later point. DNS server propagation does not take <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> into account. Also, note - that the leases are not refreshed if uplink network + that the leases are not refreshed if the uplink network configuration changes. To ensure clients regularly acquire the - most current uplink DNS server information it is thus + most current uplink DNS server information, it is thus advisable to shorten the DHCP lease time via <varname>MaxLeaseTimeSec=</varname> described above.</para></listitem> @@ -767,7 +800,7 @@ <term><varname>NTP=</varname></term> <listitem><para>Similar to the <varname>EmitDNS=</varname> and - <varname>DNS=</varname> settings described above these + <varname>DNS=</varname> settings described above, these settings configure whether and what NTP server information shall be emitted as part of the DHCP lease. The same syntax, propagation semantics and defaults apply as for @@ -786,7 +819,7 @@ <varname>Timezone=</varname> setting takes a timezone string (such as <literal>Europe/Berlin</literal> or <literal>UTC</literal>) to pass to clients. If no explicit - timezone is set the system timezone of the local host is + timezone is set, the system timezone of the local host is propagated, as determined by the <filename>/etc/localtime</filename> symlink.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -828,7 +861,7 @@ <term><varname>FastLeave=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>A boolean. This flag allows the bridge to immediately stop multicast - traffic on a port that receives IGMP Leave message. It is only used with + traffic on a port that receives an IGMP Leave message. It is only used with IGMP snooping if enabled on the bridge. Defaults to off.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -844,7 +877,7 @@ <term><varname>Cost=</varname></term> <listitem> <para>Sets the "cost" of sending packets of this interface. - Each port in a bridge may have different speed and the cost + Each port in a bridge may have a different speed and the cost is used to decide which link to use. Faster interfaces should have lower costs.</para> </listitem> @@ -869,8 +902,8 @@ <varlistentry> <term><varname>VLANId=</varname></term> <listitem> - <para>The VLAN Id for the new static MAC table entry. If - omitted, no VLAN Id info is appended to the new static MAC + <para>The VLAN ID for the new static MAC table entry. If + omitted, no VLAN ID info is appended to the new static MAC table entry.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> |