[PATCH iproute2 4/4] man: iplink: document new addrgenmodes
From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Date: 2016-01-04 09:58:33
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> --- man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 18 +++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index ac6f4813a329..189a8f15fa03 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ ip-link \- network device configuration .br .B nomaster " |" .br -.B addrgenmode { eui64 | none } +.B addrgenmode { eui64 | none | stable_secret | random } .br .B link-netnsid ID .BR " }"
@@ -1029,8 +1029,20 @@ set master device of the device (enslave device). unset master device of the device (release device). .TP -.BR "addrgenmode eui64 " or " addrgenmode none" -set IPv6 address generation mode +.BI addrgenmode " eui64|none|stable_secret|random" +set the IPv6 address generation mode + +.I eui64 +- use a Modified EUI-64 format interface identifier + +.I none +- disable automatic address generation + +.I stable_secret +- generate the interface identifier based on a preset /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/{default,DEVICE}/stable_secret + +.I random +- like stable_secret, but auto-generate a new random secret if none is set .TP .BR "link-netnsid "
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