From e63be0847c39bfdca45c25c505922814374581a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Susant Sahani Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 16:35:41 +0530 Subject: networkd: address add support to configure flags (#4201) This patch enables to configure IFA_F_HOMEADDRESS IFA_F_NODAD IFA_F_MANAGETEMPADDR IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE IFA_F_MCAUTOJOIN --- man/systemd.network.xml | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) (limited to 'man') diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml index 0af927db19..2fb4907634 100644 --- a/man/systemd.network.xml +++ b/man/systemd.network.xml @@ -695,6 +695,57 @@ which is then configured to use them explicitly. + + HomeAddress= + + Takes a boolean argument. Designates this address the "home address" as defined in + RFC 6275. + Supported only on IPv6. Defaults to false. + + + + DuplicateAddressDetection= + + Takes a boolean argument. Do not perform Duplicate Address Detection + RFC 4862 when adding this address. + Supported only on IPv6. Defaults to false. + + + + ManageTemporaryAddress= + + Takes a boolean argument. If true the kernel manage temporary addresses created + from this one as template on behalf of Privacy Extensions + RFC 3041. For this to become + active, the use_tempaddr sysctl setting has to be set to a value greater than zero. + The given address needs to have a prefix length of 64. This flag allows to use privacy + extensions in a manually configured network, just like if stateless auto-configuration + was active. Defaults to false. + + + + PrefixRoute= + + Takes a boolean argument. When adding or modifying an IPv6 address, the userspace + application needs a way to suppress adding a prefix route. This is for example relevant + together with IFA_F_MANAGERTEMPADDR, where userspace creates autoconf generated addresses, + but depending on on-link, no route for the prefix should be added. Defaults to false. + + + + AutoJoin= + + Takes a boolean argument. Joining multicast group on ethernet level via + ip maddr command would not work if we have an Ethernet switch that does + IGMP snooping since the switch would not replicate multicast packets on ports that did not + have IGMP reports for the multicast addresses. Linux vxlan interfaces created via + ip link add vxlan or networkd's netdev kind vxlan have the group option + that enables then to do the required join. By extending ip address command with option + autojoin we can get similar functionality for openvswitch (OVS) vxlan + interfaces as well as other tunneling mechanisms that need to receive multicast traffic. + Defaults to no. + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf