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| author | shin <shin@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-15 03:38:22 +0000 |
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| committer | shin <shin@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-03-15 03:38:22 +0000 |
| commit | 288c5bf6e8c62176dfe5c8a22a216f58b5c6d225 (patch) | |
| tree | 79e5cea5c7ad76a33b0b8c85f947d634ce21d570 /share/man/man4/inet6.4 | |
| parent | 099b4f9e016ece28888ca27d651d44a68b642214 (diff) | |
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Wording fixes and mdoc fixes.
Submitted by: sheldonh
Reviewed by: sheldonh
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/inet6.4')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/inet6.4 | 22 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/inet6.4 b/share/man/man4/inet6.4 index c737c71..785678c 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/inet6.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/inet6.4 @@ -111,15 +111,18 @@ field to 0, or by using the address contained in the variable .Dv in6addr_any . .Pp IPv6 defines scoped addresses such as link-local or site-local addresses. -A scoped address is ambiguous to the kernel, -if it is specified without scope identifier. +A scoped address is ambiguous to the kernel, +if it is specified without a scope identifier. To manipulate scoped addresses properly from the userland, programs must use the advanced API defined in RFC2292. -Compact description on the advanced API is available in +A compact description on the advanced API is available in .Xr ip6 4 . If scoped addresses are specified without explicit scope, -the kernel may raise error. -Note that scoped addresses are not for daily use at this moment, +and the IPv6 default interface for scoped addresses is not specified, +an error, +.Er EHOSTUNREACH , +will be returned from the kernel. +Note that scoped addresses are not for common use at this moment, both from specification and implementation point of view. .Pp FreeBSD's IPv6 implementation supports extended numeric IPv6 address @@ -278,12 +281,13 @@ message protocol is accessible from a raw socket. .\" will trigger the mechanism; whereas raw .\" .Tn IP .\" packets, whether locally-generated or forwarded, will not. -.Sh MIB VARIABLES +.Ss MIB Variables A number of variables are implemented in the net.inet6 branch of the .Xr sysctl 3 -MIB. In addition to the variables supported by the transport -protocols (for which see the respective manual pages), the following -general variables are defined: +MIB. +In addition to the variables supported by the transport protocols +(for which the respective manual pages may be consulted), +the following general variables are defined: .Bl -tag -width IPV6CTL_MAXFRAGPACKETS .It Dv IPV6CTL_FORWARDING .Pq ip6.forwarding |
