svn commit: r41841 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking
Tom Rhodes
trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 5 02:33:37 UTC 2013
Author: trhodes
Date: Wed Jun 5 02:33:36 2013
New Revision: 41841
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41841
Log:
Wording tweaks to the ipv6/ipv4 mapping section.
Suggested by: hrs
Modified:
projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml Tue Jun 4 22:29:55 2013 (r41840)
+++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml Wed Jun 5 02:33:36 2013 (r41841)
@@ -5453,14 +5453,19 @@ redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:80 80</pro
may be a security issue.</para>
<para>This option may not be required in most cases and is
- available only for compatibility while services are updated
- to support <acronym>IPv6</acronym>. To enable the feature,
+ available only for compatibility. This option will allow
+ <acronym>IPv6</acronym>-only applications to work with
+ <acronym>IPv4</acronym> in a dual stack environment. This
+ is most useful for third party applications which may not
+ support an <acronym>IPv6</acronym>-only environment. To
+ enable this feature,
add the following to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>ipv6_ipv4mapping="YES"</programlisting>
<para>Reviewing the information in <acronym>RFC</acronym> 3493,
- section 3.6 and 3.7 may be useful to some adminstrators.</para>
+ section 3.6 and 3.7 as well as <acronym>RFC</acronym> 4038
+ section 4.2 may be useful to some adminstrators.</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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