docs/75124: Handbook IPv6 changes
Gavin Atkinson
gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk
Wed Dec 15 19:20:29 UTC 2004
>Number: 75124
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Handbook IPv6 changes
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Dec 15 19:20:24 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Gavin Atkinson
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD buffy.york.ac.uk 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #6: Tue Dec 7 22:37:07 GMT 2004 root at buffy.york.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BUFFY i386
>Description:
The advanced-networking section on IPv6 misses out one
important stage in the instructions detailing how to configure
an IPv6 router. A section header also has a misleading title.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to set up a machine routing IPv6 following only the
information in section 25.10 of the handbook.
>Fix:
--- hb-ipv6.diff begins here ---
Index: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.353
diff -u -r1.353 chapter.sgml
--- doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml 29 Nov 2004 21:43:35 -0000 1.353
+++ doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml 15 Dec 2004 19:14:31 -0000
@@ -3914,7 +3914,7 @@
</sect3>
<sect3>
- <title>IPv6 Router/Gateway Settings</title>
+ <title>IPv6 &man.gif.4 Settings</title>
<para>This will help you take the directions that your tunnel provider,
such as the <ulink url="http://www.6bone.net/">6bone</ulink>, has
@@ -3944,6 +3944,17 @@
<programlisting>ipv6_defaultrouter="<replaceable>MY_IPv6_REMOTE_TUNNEL_ENDPOINT_ADDR</replaceable>"</programlisting>
</sect3>
+
+ <sect3>
+ <title>IPv6 Router/Gateway Settings</title>
+
+ <para>If the server is to route IPv6 between the rest of your network
+ and the world, the following <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>
+ setting will also be needed:</para>
+
+ <programlisting>ipv6_gateway_enable="YES"</programlisting>
+
+ </sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
--- hb-ipv6.diff ends here ---
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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