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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2019-03-13 17:00:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2019-03-14 15:13:33 +0100 |
| commit | c4a05aa1a8338013108d099de805f3262a871c0f (patch) | |
| tree | dd9ca58d6cad3dfb52b26e7d07e5f8252893476d | |
| parent | 5f4283007984b54a1003f44eed6a0e07afa41109 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-c4a05aa1a8338013108d099de805f3262a871c0f.tar.gz | |
networkd: clarify that IPv6 RA uses our own stack, no the kernel's
Fixes: #8906
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.network.xml | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml index 5a83314332..19e4f59edd 100644 --- a/man/systemd.network.xml +++ b/man/systemd.network.xml @@ -630,6 +630,11 @@ url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt">ip-sysctl.txt</ulink> in the kernel documentation regarding <literal>accept_ra</literal>, but note that systemd's setting of <constant>1</constant> (i.e. true) corresponds to kernel's setting of <constant>2</constant>.</para> + + <para>Note that if this option is enabled a userspace implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is + used, and the kernel's own implementation remains disabled, since `networkd` needs to know all + details supplied in the advertisements, and these are not available from the kernel if the kernel's + own implemenation is used.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> |