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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $Id: inet6.4,v 1.1.1.1 1999/08/08 23:30:37 itojun Exp $ .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" .Dd January 29, 1999 .Dt INET6 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm inet6 .Nd Internet protocol version 6 family .Sh SYNOPSIS .Fd #include .Fd #include .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm family is an updated version of .Xr inet 4 family. While .Xr inet 4 implements Internet Protocol version 4, .Nm implements Internet Protocol version 6. .Pp .Nm is a collection of protocols layered atop the .Em Internet Protocol version 6 .Pq Tn IPv6 transport layer, and utilizing the IPv6 address format. The .Nm family provides protocol support for the .Dv SOCK_STREAM , SOCK_DGRAM , and .Dv SOCK_RAW socket types; the .Dv SOCK_RAW interface provides access to the .Tn IPv6 protocol. .Sh ADDRESSING IPv6 addresses are 16 byte quantities, stored in network standard format The include file .Aq Pa netinet/in.h defines this address as a discriminated union. .Pp Sockets bound to the .Nm family utilize the following addressing structure, .Bd -literal -offset indent struct sockaddr_in6 { u_char sin6_len; u_char sin6_family; u_int16_t sin6_port; u_int32_t sin6_flowinfo; struct in6_addr sin6_addr; u_int32_t sin6_scope_id; }; .Ed .Pp Sockets may be created with the local address .Dq Dv :: .Po which is equal to IPv6 address .Dv 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 .Pc to effect .Dq wildcard matching on incoming messages. The address in a .Xr connect 2 or .Xr sendto 2 call may be given as .Dq Dv :: to mean .Dq this host . .Dq Dv :: can be obtained by setting .Dv sin6_addr field into 0, or by using the address contained in variable .Dv in6addr_any . .Pp IPv6 defines scoped address such as link-local or site-local address. To manipulate link-local addresses properly from the userland, programs must use advanced API defined in RFC2292. Otherwise, the address is ambiguous to the kernel and error will be generated. Scoped address is not for daily use at this moment both from specification and implementation point of view. Most of normal userland program like .Xr telnet 1 or .Xr telnetd 8 cannot handle scoped address properly. Only special programs, like .Xr ping6 8 , supports scoped address. For example, .Xr ping6 8 has special option for specifying outgoing interface to disambiguate scoped addresses. .Pp Scoped addresses are handled specially in the kernel. Scoped addresses will have its interface index embedded into the address, in routing table or interface structure. Therefore, the address on some of the kernel structure is not the same as that on the wire. The embedded index will be visible on .Dv PF_ROUTE socket and results from .Xr ifconfig 8 , HOWEVER, users should never use the embedded form. For details please consult .Pa IMPLEMENTATION supplied with KAME kit. .Sh PROTOCOLS The .Nm family is comprised of the .Tn IPv6 network protocol, Internet Control Message Protocol version 6 .Pq Tn ICMPv6 , Transmission Control Protocol .Pq Tn TCP , and User Datagram Protocol .Pq Tn UDP . .Tn TCP is used to support the .Dv SOCK_STREAM abstraction while .Tn UDP is used to support the .Dv SOCK_DGRAM abstraction. Note that .Tn TCP and .Tn UDP are common to .Xr inet 4 and .Nm inet6 . A raw interface to .Tn IPv6 is available by creating an Internet socket of type .Dv SOCK_RAW . The .Tn ICMPv6 message protocol is accessible from a raw socket. .\" .Pp .\" The 128-bit IPv6 address contains both network and host parts. .\" However, direct examination of addresses is discouraged. .\" For those programs which absolutely need to break addresses .\" into their component parts, the following .\" .Xr ioctl 2 .\" commands are provided for a datagram socket in the .\" .Nm .\" domain; they have the same form as the .\" .Dv SIOCIFADDR .\" command (see .\" .Xr intro 4 ) . .\" .Pp .\" .Bl -tag -width SIOCSIFNETMASK .\" .It Dv SIOCSIFNETMASK .\" Set interface network mask. .\" The network mask defines the network part of the address; .\" if it contains more of the address than the address type would indicate, .\" then subnets are in use. .\" .It Dv SIOCGIFNETMASK .\" Get interface network mask. .\" .El .\" .Sh ROUTING .\" The current implementation of Internet protocols includes some routing-table .\" adaptations to provide enhanced caching of certain end-to-end .\" information necessary for Transaction TCP and Path MTU Discovery. The .\" following changes are the most significant: .\" .Bl -enum .\" .It .\" All IP routes, except those with the .\" .Dv RTF_CLONING .\" flag and those to multicast destinations, have the .\" .Dv RTF_PRCLONING .\" flag forcibly enabled (they are thus said to be .\" .Dq "protocol cloning" ). .\" .It .\" When the last reference to an IP route is dropped, the route is .\" examined to determine if it was created by cloning such a route. If .\" this is the case, the .\" .Dv RTF_PROTO3 .\" flag is turned on, and the expiration timer is initialized to go off .\" in net.inet.ip.rtexpire seconds. If such a route is re-referenced, .\" the flag and expiration timer are reset. .\" .It .\" A kernel timeout runs once every ten minutes, or sooner if there are .\" soon-to-expire routes in the kernel routing table, and deletes the .\" expired routes. .\" .El .\" .Pp .\" A dynamic process is in place to modify the value of .\" net.inet.ip.rtexpire if the number of cached routes grows too large. .\" If after an expiration run there are still more than .\" net.inet.ip.rtmaxcache unreferenced routes remaining, the rtexpire .\" value is multiplied by 3/4, and any routes which have longer .\" expiration times have those times adjusted. This process is damped .\" somewhat by specification of a minimum rtexpire value .\" (net.inet.ip.rtminexpire), and by restricting the reduction to once in .\" a ten-minute period. .\" .Pp .\" If some external process deletes the original route from which a .\" protocol-cloned route was generated, the ``child route'' is deleted. .\" (This is actually a generic mechanism in the routing code support for .\" protocol-requested cloning.) .\" .Pp .\" No attempt is made to manage routes which were not created by protocol .\" cloning; these are assumed to be static, under the management of an .\" external routing process, or under the management of a link layer .\" (e.g., .\" .Tn ARP .\" for Ethernets). .\" .Pp .\" Only certain types of network activity will result in the cloning of a .\" route using this mechanism. Specifically, those protocols (such as .\" .Tn TCP .\" and .\" .Tn UDP ) .\" which themselves cache a long-lasting reference to route for a destination .\" will trigger the mechanism; whereas raw .\" .Tn IP .\" packets, whether locally-generated or forwarded, will not. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ioctl 2 , .Xr socket 2 , .Xr sysctl 3 , .Xr icmp6 4 , .Xr intro 4 , .\" .Xr ip6 4 , .Xr tcp 4 , .Xr ttcp 4 , .Xr udp 4 .Sh CAVEAT The IPv6 support is subject to change as the Internet protocols develop. Users should not depend on details of the current implementation, but rather the services exported. .Pp Users are suggested to implement .Dq version independent code as much as possible, as you will need to support both .Xr inet 4 and .Nm inet6 . .Sh HISTORY The .Nm protocol interface are defined in RFC2553 and RFC2292. The implementation described herein appeared in WIDE/KAME project.