ip6addrctl -- configure address selection policy for IPv6 and IPv4
ip6addrctl [show]
ip6addrctl add prefix precedence label
ip6addrctl delete prefix
ip6addrctl flush
ip6addrctl install configfile
The ip6addrctl command manages the policy table of source and destination
address selection for outgoing IPv4 and IPv6 packets. When ip6addrctl is
invoked without an argument or with a single argument show, it prints the
content of the policy table currently installed in the kernel.
To modify the table, the following operations are available:
add prefix precedence label
add a policy entry. Prefix is an IPv6 prefix, which is a key for
the entry. An IPv4 prefix should be specified with an IPv6 prefix
using an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address. Precedence and label are
decimal numbers, which specify the precedence and label values
for the entry, respectively. This operation should be performed
without an existing entry for the prefix.
delete prefix
delete a policy entry specified by prefix, which should be an
IPv6 prefix. A corresponding entry for the prefix should have
already been installed.
flush delete all existing policy entries in the kernel.
install configfile
install policy entries from a configuration file named
configfile. The configuration file should contain a set of policy
entries. Each entry is specified in a single line which contains
an IPv6 prefix, a decimal precedence value, and a decimal
label value, separated with white space or tab characters. In
the configuration file, lines beginning with the pound-sign (#)
are comments and are ignored.
The program exits with 0 on success, non-zero on failures.
Richard Draves, ``Default Address Selection for IPv6'', RFC 3484.
The ip6addrctl command first appeared in the KAME IPv6 protocol stack
kit. The original command name was addrselect, but it was then renamed
to the current one so that the name would describe its function well.
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