re-add $ipv6_enable support for backward compatibility. From
UPDATING:
1. To use IPv6, simply define $ifconfig_IF_ipv6 like $ifconfig_IF
for IPv4. For aliases, $ifconfig_IF_aliasN should be used.
Note that both variables need the "inet6" keyword at the head.
Do not set $ipv6_network_interfaces manually if you do not
understand what you are doing. It is not needed in most cases.
$ipv6_ifconfig_IF and $ipv6_ifconfig_IF_aliasN still work, but
they are obsolete.
2. $ipv6_enable is obsolete. Use $ipv6_prefer and/or
"inet6 accept_rtadv" keyword in ifconfig(8) instead.
If you define $ipv6_enable=YES, it means $ipv6_prefer=YES and
all configured interfaces have "inet6 accept_rtadv" in the
$ifconfig_IF_ipv6. These are for backward compatibility.
3. A new variable $ipv6_prefer has been added. If NO, IPv6
functionality of interfaces with no corresponding
$ifconfig_IF_ipv6 is disabled by using "inet6 ifdisabled" flag,
and the default address selection policy of ip6addrctl(8)
is the IPv4-preferred one (see rc.d/ip6addrctl for more details).
Note that if you want to configure IPv6 functionality on the
disabled interfaces after boot, first you need to clear the flag by
using ifconfig(8) like:
ifconfig em0 inet6 -ifdisabled
If YES, the default address selection policy is set as
IPv6-preferred.
The default value of $ipv6_prefer is NO.
4. If your system need to receive Router Advertisement messages,
define "inet6 accept_rtadv" in $ifconfig_IF_ipv6. The rc(8)
scripts automatically invoke rtsol(8) when the interface becomes
UP. The Router Advertisement messages are used for SLAAC
(State-Less Address AutoConfiguration).
devices that we also support, just not by default (thus only LINT or
module builds by default).
While currently there is only "/dev/full" [2], we are planning to see more
in the future. We may decide to change the module/dependency logic in the
future should the list grow too long.
This is not part of linux.ko as also non-linux binaries like kFreeBSD
userland or ports can make use of this as well.
Suggested by: rwatson [1] (name)
Submitted by: ed [2]
Discussed with: markm, ed, rwatson, kib (weeks ago)
Reviewed by: rwatson, brueffer (prev. version)
PR: kern/68961
MFC after: 6 weeks
network_ipv6->rc.d/netif integration:
- $ipv6_enable is now obsolete. Instead, IPv6 is enabled by
default if the kernel supports it, and $ipv6_network_interfaces
is "none" by default. If you want to use IPv6, define
$ipv6_network_interfaces and $ifconfig_xxx_ipv6.
An interface which is in $network_interfaces and not in
$ipv6_network_interfaces will be marked as "inet6
-auto_linklocal ifdisabled" (see ifconfig(8)).
- $ipv6_ifconfig_xxx is renamed to ifconfig_xxx_ipv6 for
consistency with other address families. The old variables
still work but can be removed in the future. Note that
ipv6_ifconfig_xxx="..." should be replaced with
ifconfig_xxx_ipv6="inet6 ...".
- Receiving ICMPv6 Router Advertisement is not automatically
enabled even if there is no manual configuration of IPv6 in
rc.conf. If you want it, define
ifconfig_xxx_ipv6="inet6 ... accept_rtadv".
- The rc.d/ip6addrctl now chooses address selection policy based
on $ipv6_prefer, not $ipv6_enable. The default is
ipv6_prefer=NO.
- $router* and $ipv6_router* are replaced with $routed_* and
$route6d_* for consistency. The old variables still work but
can be removed in the future.
MFC after: 3 days
automatic link-local address configuration:
- Convert a sysctl net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to one for the
default value of a per-IF flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a
global knob. The default value of the sysctl is 0.
- Add a new per-IF flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL and convert a
sysctl net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal to one for its default
value. The default value of the sysctl is 1.
- Make ND6_IFF_IFDISABLED more robust. It can be used to disable
IPv6 functionality of an interface now.
- Receiving RA is allowed if ip6_forwarding==0 *and*
ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV is set on that interface. The former
condition will be revisited later to support a "host + router" box
like IPv6 CPE router. The current behavior is compatible with
the older releases of FreeBSD.
- The ifconfig(8) now supports these ND6 flags as well as "nud",
"prefer_source", and "disabled" in ndp(8). The ndp(8) now
supports "auto_linklocal".
Discussed with: bz and jinmei
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 days
"set vesa mode" and higher 16bits of the flag would be the desired mode.
One can now set, for instance, hint.sc.0.flags=0x01680180, which means
that the system should set VESA mode 0x168 upon boot.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com>, swell k at gmail.com with
some minor changes.
- Add vesa kernel options for amd64.
- Connect libvgl library and splash kernel modules to amd64 build.
- Connect manual page dpms(4) to amd64 build.
- Remove old vesa/dpms files.
Submitted by: paradox <ddkprog yahoo com> [1], swell k at gmail.com
(with some minor tweaks)
Update the error handling in a couple of cases to exit gracefully if
certain mandatory conditions aren't met.
Reduce the maximum number of initiators to 8 for this example code. While
1024 is more correct, this example code would act like it was stalled out
even though it was merely allocating the needed structures in init_ccbs()
Reviewed by: scottl@freebsd.org
Now that pty(4) is a loadable kernel module, I'd better move /dev/ptmx
in there as well. This means that pty(4) now provides almost all
pseudo-terminal compatibility code. This means it's very easy to test
whether applications use the proper library interfaces when allocating
pseudo-terminals (namely posix_openpt and openpty).
statically bind IPv4 <-> MAC address at boot time.
In order to use this, the administrator needs to configure the following
rc.conf(5) variable:
- static_arp_pairs: A list of names for static bind pairs, and,
- a series of static_arp_(name): the arguments that is being passed to
``arp -S'' operation.
Example:
static_arp_pairs="gw"
static_arp_gw="192.168.1.1 00:01:02:03:04:05"
See the rc.conf(5) manual page for more details.
Reviewed by: -rc@
MFC after: 2 weeks
the kthread_create(9) man page to the kproc(9) page as it had migrated and
people looking for it may need a hand to find its new name.
MFC after: 1 week
better semantics if a request to append an address range to an existing list
fails.
- When cloning an sglist, properly set the length in the new sglist instead of
leaving the new list empty.
- Properly compute the amount of data added to an sglist via
_sglist_append_buf(). This allows sglist_consume_uio() to properly update
uio_resid.
- When a request to append an address range to a scatter/gather list fails,
restore the sglist to the state it had at the start of the function call
instead of resetting it to an empty list.
Requested by: np (3)
Approved by: re (kib)
using freebsd-update. This applies to using freebsd-update in "upgrade
mode" and normal freebsd-update on a security branch.
The backup kernel will be written to /boot/kernel.old, if the directory
does not exist, or the directory was created by freebsd-update in a
previous backup. Otherwise freebsd-update will generate a new directory
name for use by the backup. By default symbol files are not backed up
to save diskspace and avoid filling up the root partition.
This feature is fully configurable in the freebsd-update config file,
but defaults to enabled.
MFC after: 1 week (stable/7)
Reviewed by: cperciva
Approved by: re (kib)
