ip6addrpol(1M)ip6addrpol(1M)ip6addrpol - display and configure the IPv6 source and destination address
selection policy tableSYNOPSIS
[policyfile]
DESCRIPTION
The command is used to display or modify the IPv6 source and destina‐
tion address selection policy table. If invoked without an argument, it
simply displays the current policy table installed in the kernel.
Options
recognizes the following options and arguments to manage the policy ta‐
ble:
Add or update an entry in the kernel policy table.
The prefix argument is expressed in the form of an
IPv6 address. IPv4 prefixes can be specified using
the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address format. The low-order
bits of the prefix should be set to zero. The pre‐
fixlen argument should be a value from 0 to 128. If
prefixlen is not specified, it will be set to 64 by
default. The precedence and label arguments should be
integer values in the range 0 to 999999999. The prece‐
dence value will be used to sort destination addresses
in the descending order of precedence. The label value
will be used to match a particular source address pre‐
fix with a destination address prefix.
Set the kernel policy table to contain only the policy entries
specified in
the configuration file policyfile. If policyfile is
not specified, the default policy configuration file
will be read. Each entry is specified by a single
line containing three fields: prefix/prefixlen, prece‐
dence, and label. The format of these fields is the
same as described for the option. The fields are sep‐
arated by white space. Lines beginning with the
pound-sign are considered comments and are ignored.
For example, the content of this file can be:
To configure the equivalent of an empty policy table,
such that all addresses are treated equally, the con‐
tents of this file can be set to:
The policy table specified in the file will be loaded
at system startup. If that file does not exist, or
does not contain any policy entries, the system will
use the default policy table as defined in RFC 3484.
Delete an entry from the kernel policy table.
The prefix and prefixlen arguments are the same as
described for the option.
Delete all the policy entries from the kernel policy table.
Restore the default policy table as defined
by RFC 3484. Restoring the default policy table this
way only changes the policy table on the currently
running kernel, the change will not be persistent
across reboot.
The use of the and options requires superuser privilege.
RETURN VALUE
0 Zero indicates success.
<0> Non-zero indicates errors.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
RFC 3484 Default Address Selection for Internet Protocol version 6
(IPv6)
ip6addrpol(1M)
