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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2021-03-10 17:00:16 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2021-03-10 17:00:16 +0000 |
| commit | 7fa39cc0dabcf10e473ad5c5f5006de7f1e47c76 (patch) | |
| tree | 664349279000d4c17725b6cdbea6b3a811f55d8a /share/man/man5 | |
| parent | Let MAIR comment catch up with reality. (diff) | |
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cleanup the 3 ways (2 for ipv4, 1 for ipv6) of doing dynamic address
allocation. not the perfect text yet, but it is better.
discussed with florian and jmc
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 | 31 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 b/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 index e8e7ac03c2b..748e549d4eb 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/hostname.if.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.if.5,v 1.74 2021/03/08 16:12:28 florian Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: hostname.if.5,v 1.75 2021/03/10 17:00:16 deraadt Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: hosts.5,v 1.4 1994/11/30 19:31:20 jtc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)hosts.5 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 8 2021 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: March 10 2021 $ .Dt HOSTNAME.IF 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -226,19 +226,15 @@ up .Ed .El .Sh DYNAMIC ADDRESS CONFIGURATION -The following packed formats are valid for configuring network interfaces -with dynamic addresses. +IPv4 dynamic addressing using DHCP can be done in two forms: .Pp -For IPv4 dynamic addressing using DHCP, the literal string +The token .Dq dhcp followed first by .Xr dhclient 8 options and then by .Xr ifconfig 8 -options. -Note that -.Xr ifconfig 8 -is executed before +options, which are handled before starting .Xr dhclient 8 . .Bd -ragged -offset indent .Li dhcp @@ -246,7 +242,17 @@ is executed before .Op Va ifconfig_options .Ed .Pp -For IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration the literal string +Alternatively, the literal string +.Dq inet autoconf +followed by any options to be passed to +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Li inet4 autoconf +.Op Va ifconfig_options +.Ed +.Pp +IPv6 stateless address autoconfiguration is requested using +the literal string .Dq inet6 autoconf followed by any options to be passed to .Xr ifconfig 8 . @@ -254,6 +260,11 @@ followed by any options to be passed to .Li inet6 autoconf .Op Va ifconfig_options .Ed +.Pp +The +.Va autoconf +configurations will communicate learned DNS information to +.Xr resolvd 8 . .Sh BRIDGE INTERFACE CONFIGURATION If the network interface is a bridge, the options described in the bridge section of the |