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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-27 17:00:16 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-10-27 17:00:16 +0000
commitfc1d5cfef8dfe275a51acb19b1ac626096f86356 (patch)
tree73103d45c6fe71d2f892ac6bfdfb84e7b97c820d /usr.sbin
parent6d87367a8992e01a48f188a1a4aa4a1782335c46 (diff)
describe the relevant sysctls, and what exactly -F does;
ok todd@
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.823
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8 b/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8
index 7ed8d1bbca6..60bc55c4146 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rtsold/rtsold.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rtsold.8,v 1.22 2005/10/26 11:20:57 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rtsold.8,v 1.23 2005/10/27 17:00:15 jmc Exp $
.\" $KAME: rtsold.8,v 1.17 2001/07/09 22:30:37 itojun Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
.Op Fl DdF
.Ar interface ...
.Nm rtsol
-.Op Fl Dd
+.Op Fl DdF
.Fl a
.\"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ and to get non link-local addresses.
should be used on IPv6 hosts
.Pq non-router nodes
only.
+The
+.Va net.inet6.ip6.forwarding
+.Xr sysctl 8
+should be set to zero and the
+.Va net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv
+.Xr sysctl 8
+should be set to a non-zero value
+(see also the
+.Fl F
+option below).
.Pp
If you invoke the program as
.Nm rtsol ,
@@ -116,13 +126,13 @@ This feature is provided
for such stations so that they can find new routers as soon as possible
when they attach to another link.
.El
-.Lp
+.Pp
Once
.Nm
has sent a Router Solicitation, and has received a valid Router Advertisement,
it refrains from sending additional solicitations on that interface, until
the next time one of the above events occurs.
-.Lp
+.Pp
When sending a Router Solicitation on an interface,
.Nm
includes a Source Link-layer address option if the interface
@@ -162,8 +172,9 @@ Enable debugging.
.It Fl F
Automatically set the
.Xr sysctl 8
-variable related to
-.Nm .
+variables relating to
+.Nm
+(see above).
Without this option,
.Nm
will obey the current