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| author | Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com> | 2013-05-16 22:32:00 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-05-19 15:09:26 -0700 |
| commit | caeaba79009c2ee858c3b2bf8caf922cd719fead (patch) | |
| tree | ee7e04fe068584f7e88a382c9ba615a71fffcfe9 /Documentation/sysctl/net.txt | |
| parent | 5199dfe531db19f3ac76542753849877e9854441 (diff) | |
ipv6: add support of peer address
This patch adds the support of peer address for IPv6. For example, it is
possible to specify the remote end of a 6inY tunnel.
This was already possible in IPv4:
ip addr add ip1 peer ip2 dev dev1
The peer address is specified with IFA_ADDRESS and the local address with
IFA_LOCAL (like explained in include/uapi/linux/if_addr.h).
Note that the API is not changed, because before this patch, it was not
possible to specify two different addresses in IFA_LOCAL and IFA_REMOTE.
There is a small change for the dump: if the peer is different from ::,
IFA_ADDRESS will contain the peer address instead of the local address.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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