From d93331965729850303f6111381c1a4a9e9b8ae5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Greear Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:44:53 -0700 Subject: ipv6: Allow accepting RA from local IP addresses. This can be used in virtual networking applications, and may have other uses as well. The option is disabled by default. A specific use case is setting up virtual routers, bridges, and hosts on a single OS without the use of network namespaces or virtual machines. With proper use of ip rules, routing tables, veth interface pairs and/or other virtual interfaces, and applications that can bind to interfaces and/or IP addresses, it is possibly to create one or more virtual routers with multiple hosts attached. The host interfaces can act as IPv6 systems, with radvd running on the ports in the virtual routers. With the option provided in this patch enabled, those hosts can now properly obtain IPv6 addresses from the radvd. Signed-off-by: Ben Greear Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index ab42c95f9985..10e216c6e05e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1210,6 +1210,18 @@ accept_ra_defrtr - BOOLEAN Functional default: enabled if accept_ra is enabled. disabled if accept_ra is disabled. +accept_ra_from_local - BOOLEAN + Accept RA with source-address that is found on local machine + if the RA is otherwise proper and able to be accepted. + Default is to NOT accept these as it may be an un-intended + network loop. + + Functional default: + enabled if accept_ra_from_local is enabled + on a specific interface. + disabled if accept_ra_from_local is disabled + on a specific interface. + accept_ra_pinfo - BOOLEAN Learn Prefix Information in Router Advertisement. -- cgit v1.2.3