Commit fed6c18b authored by Joanne Hugé's avatar Joanne Hugé

re6st protocol 8: update documentation

parent 6408b7e1
......@@ -30,8 +30,9 @@ Use ``re6stnet --help`` to get the complete list of options.
If you already have IPv6 connectivity by autoconfiguration and still want to
use it for communications that are unrelated to this network, then:
- your kernel must support source address based routing (because you can't
use ``--default`` option).
- your kernel must support source address based routing (because the re6st
default route will need to contain a source address in order to forward re6st
packets through the re6st network).
- you must set ``net.ipv6.conf.<iface>.accept_ra`` sysctl to value 2 and
trigger SLAAC with ``rdisc6 <iface>`` to restore the default route if the
kernel removed while enabling forwarding.
......@@ -85,20 +86,13 @@ If the `/etc/re6stnet/re6stnet.conf` configuration file exists, `re6stnet` is
automatically started as a system daemon, by ``systemd``\ (1). Debian package
also provides SysV init scripts.
Important note about ``--default`` option
-----------------------------------------
When re6st is configured to route all your IPv6 traffic (``--default``),
any other interface providing IPv6 must have no default route. Otherwise,
re6st either refuses to start or aborts if it detect a default route.
Correct usage of NetworkManager
-------------------------------
It is required to configure properly every connection defined in NetworkManager
because default settings are wrong and conflict with re6st. If ``--default`` is
used, then disable IPv6, else enable the following options in the [ipv6]
section::
because default settings are wrong and conflict with re6st. If your kernel has
no source address based routing, then disable IPv6, else enable the following
options in the [ipv6] section::
ignore-auto-routes=true
never-default=true
......
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