From: Lennart Poettering 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(+) 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 in the kernel documentation regarding accept_ra, but note that systemd's setting of 1 (i.e. true) corresponds to kernel's setting of 2. + + 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.