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+From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
+Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:00:56 +0100
+Subject: networkd: clarify that IPv6 RA uses our own stack, no the kernel's
+
+Fixes: #8906
+(cherry picked from commit c4a05aa1a8338013108d099de805f3262a871c0f)
+---
+ man/systemd.network.xml | 5 +++++
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
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+diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
+index ee464ff..12be72a 100644
+--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
++++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
+@@ -632,6 +632,11 @@
+ url="https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt">ip-sysctl.txt</ulink> in the kernel
+ documentation regarding <literal>accept_ra</literal>, but note that systemd's setting of
+ <constant>1</constant> (i.e. true) corresponds to kernel's setting of <constant>2</constant>.</para>
++
++ <para>Note that if this option is enabled a userspace implementation of the IPv6 RA protocol is
++ used, and the kernel's own implementation remains disabled, since `networkd` needs to know all
++ details supplied in the advertisements, and these are not available from the kernel if the kernel's
++ own implemenation is used.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>