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| author | Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-01-19 12:31:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2000-01-19 12:31:22 +0000 |
| commit | 4cab1a361e9f9577c353befaff71bbdbe11697f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 88d1d4e19a6c0fbcf3d383adb80d90402b15f630 | |
| parent | 8d9026a5bbb9293e1f95748b655612937d4e821a (diff) | |
more warning about net.inet6.ip6.forwarding
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 index 845efe10f8c..b5f8ced93ed 100644 --- a/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 +++ b/lib/libc/gen/sysctl.3 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.38 2000/01/11 00:44:44 angelos Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: sysctl.3,v 1.39 2000/01/19 12:31:21 itojun Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -776,6 +776,16 @@ The variables are as follows: .It Li ip6.forwarding Returns 1 when IPv6 forwarding is enabled for the node, meaning that the node is acting as a router. +Returns 0 when IPv6 forwarding is disabled for the node, +meaning that the node is acting as a host. +IPv6 specification defines node behavior for +.Dq router +case and +.Dq host +case quite differently, and changing this variable during operation +may cause serious trouble. +It is recommended to configure the variable at bootstrap time, +and bootstrap time only. .It Li ip6.redirect Returns 1 when ICMPv6 redirects may be sent by the node. This option is ignored unless the node is routing IP packets, |