Point to correct kernel version for --multihome and IPv4-mapped addresses (3.15, Tore Anderson).
Remove old reference to http://www.greenie.net/ from the IPv6 section, as the code and documentation in here is more current than on that site. Some more additions and clarifications. Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> --- doc/openvpn.8 | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index 29bfda3..8cddcec 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -2357,8 +2357,9 @@ Note: this option is only relevant for UDP servers. Note 2: if you do an IPv6+IPv4 dual-stack bind on a Linux machine with multiple IPv4 address, connections to IPv4 addresses will not work -right on kernels before 3.14, due to missing kernel support for the -IPv4-mapped case. +right on kernels before 3.15, due to missing kernel support for the +IPv4-mapped case (some distributions have ported this to earlier kernel +versions, though). .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-echo [parms...] @@ -5471,9 +5472,11 @@ option can be used BEFORE this option to produce debugging information. .SS IPv6 Related Options .\"********************************************************* The following options exist to support IPv6 tunneling in peer-to-peer -and client-server mode. As of now, this is just very basic -documentation of the IPv6-related options. More documentation can be -found on http://www.greenie.net/ipv6/openvpn.html. +and client-server mode. All options are modeled after their IPv4 +counterparts, so more detailed explanations given there apply here +as well (except for +.B \-\-topology +, which has no effect on IPv6). .TP .B --ifconfig-ipv6 ipv6addr/bits ipv6remote configure IPv6 address @@ -5504,7 +5507,8 @@ pool starts at .B ipv6addr and increments by +1 for every new client (linear mode). The .B /bits -setting controls the size of the pool. +setting controls the size of the pool. Due to implementation details, +the pool size must be between /64 and /112. .TP .B --ifconfig-ipv6-push ipv6addr/bits ipv6remote for ccd/ per-client static IPv6 interface configuration, see -- 1.8.3.2
