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FAITH(4)		 BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual		      FAITH(4)

NAME
     faith — IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay capturing interface

SYNOPSIS
     device faith

DESCRIPTION
     The faith interface captures IPv6 TCP traffic, for implementing userland
     IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay like faithd(8).

     Each faith interface is created at runtime using interface cloning.  This
     is most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command or using the
     cloned_interfaces variable in rc.conf(5).

     Special action will be taken when IPv6 TCP traffic is seen on a router,
     and the routing table suggests to route it to the faith interface.	 In
     this case, the packet will be accepted by the router, regardless of the
     list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router.  The packet will
     be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has the IN6P_FAITH flag turned
     on and matching address/port pairs.  As a result, faith will let you cap‐
     ture IPv6 TCP traffic to some specific destination addresses.  Userland
     programs, such as faithd(8) can use this behavior to relay IPv6 TCP traf‐
     fic to IPv4 TCP traffic.  The program can accept some specific IPv6 TCP
     traffic, perform getsockname(2) to get the IPv6 destination address spec‐
     ified by the client, and perform application-specific address mapping to
     relay IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP.

     The IN6P_FAITH flag on a IPv6 TCP socket can be set by using
     setsockopt(2), with level IPPROTO_IPV6 and optname IPv6_FAITH.

     To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some ICMPv6 packets routed to an faith
     interface will be delivered to IPv6 TCP, as well.

     To understand how faith can be used, take a look at the source code of
     faithd(8).

     As the faith interface implements potentially dangerous operations, great
     care must be taken when configuring it.  To avoid possible misuse, the
     sysctl(8) variable net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith must be set to 1 prior to
     using the interface.  When net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith is 0, no packets will
     be captured by the faith interface.

     The faith interface is intended to be used on routers, not on hosts.

SEE ALSO
     inet(4), inet6(4), faithd(8)

     Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino and Kazu Yamamoto, An IPv6-to-IPv4 transport
     relay translator, RFC3142.

HISTORY
     The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator first appeared in the WIDE
     hydrangea IPv6 stack.

BSD				April 10, 1999				   BSD
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