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| author | Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-02-07 12:46:05 +0000 |
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| committer | Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> | 2026-02-07 12:46:05 +0000 |
| commit | 4548149a81026ad9b1706b2b7e7ad47a4c1358b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 369df0fe4d9646ed36068f9ad28fbbec14dd509d /sbin | |
| parent | fa567fe7c537950fe48e35fa3b0827af4a45ec57 (diff) | |
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 index 627b7cd3f9e3..e1d153aa7493 100644 --- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 +++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 @@ -1008,24 +1008,28 @@ Set a flag to disable Duplicate Address Detection. Clear a flag .Cm no_dad . .It Cm stableaddr -Set a flag to create SLAAC addresses using a stable algorithm according to RFC 7217 -The +Set a flag to create SLAAC addresses using a stable algorithm +according to RFC 7217. The .Xr sysctl 8 variable .Va net.inet6.ip6.use_stableaddr -controls whether this flag is set by default or not for newly created interfaces. -To get consistent defaults for interfaces created at boot it should be set as a tunable via loader.conf(8). +controls whether this flag is set by default +or not for newly created interfaces. +To get consistent defaults for interfaces created at boot +it should be set as a tunable via +.Xr loader.conf 8 . The .Xr sysctl 8 variable .Va net.inet6.ip6.stableaddr_maxretries -sets the maximum number of retries to generate a unique IPv6 address to be performed in case of DAD failures. +sets the maximum number of retries to generate a unique IPv6 address +to be performed in case of DAD failures. This defaults to 3 which is also the reccommended minimum value. The interface ID source can be configured using the .Xr sysctl 8 variable -.Va net.inet6.ip6.stableaddr_netifsource: -.Bl -tag -compact +.Va net.inet6.ip6.stableaddr_netifsource : +.Bl -tag -compact -width indent .It Cm 0 uses the interface name string (the default) .It Cm 1 @@ -1033,7 +1037,6 @@ uses the interface ID .It Cm 2 uses the MAC address of the interface (if one can be obtained for it) .El -.Pp .It Cm -stableaddr Clear the flag .Cm stableaddr . |
