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U6RD(8) 		     System Manager's Manual			 U6RD(8)

NAME
     u6rd -- user-space 6rd (RFC 5569) implementation

SYNOPSIS
     u6rd [-dFhV] [-r v4_common_len] [-u user] tunN prefix/prefixlen
	  relay_v4_addr my_v4_addr

DESCRIPTION
     The u6rd daemon is a userland implementation of 6rd (RFC 5569) for 6rd cus-
     tomer  edge  routers.   It  does not provide the functionality of 6rd relay
     routers.

     It runs in the user-space using the tun(4) interface and the raw socket in-
     terface.

     The following options are available:

     -d      Output debug messages to stderr.  This option is  usually	combined
	     with -F, which prevents stderr from being redirected to /dev/null.

     -F      Run  in  the  foreground.	 The u6rd program does not detach itself
	     from the terminal and does not become a daemon.  Log  messages  are
	     output  to  the  stderr in addition to syslog.  No PID file is cre-
	     ated.

     -h      Show simple help messages and exit.

     -r v4_common_len
	     Specify the common prefix length of the IPv4 addresses in your  6rd
	     addressing  domain.  This should not be confused with the length of
	     the netmask.  The default value is 0.

     -u user
	     Run with the privilege of the specified user instead of root.

     -V      Show the version and exit.

     The argument prefix/prefixlen specifies the  6rd  prefix,	which  does  not
     count the embedded IPv4 address part.  relay_v4_addr is the IPv4 address of
     the 6rd relay router.  my_v4_addr is your global IPv4 address.

     Currently, u6rd does only minimal preparation;
     *	 setting the MTU of the interface to 1280, and
     *	 setting UP and RUNNING flags on it.
     You  need	to  create a tun interface, set parameters on it, and modify the
     routing table by yourself.  See "EXAMPLES" section.

     The u6rd daemon exits on SIGTERM or SIGINT.  Packet counts  are  logged  to
     syslog (with LOG_INFO priority) on SIGINFO.

FILES
     /var/run/u6rd.pid
	       The PID file of the current instance of the daemon.

EXAMPLES
     Example parameters in this section:
     The 6rd prefix from your ISP
	     2001:db8::/32
     The 6rd relay router of your ISP
	     198.51.100.1
     Your global IPv4 address
	     203.0.113.1

     Your  6rd	delegated  prefix  is  calculated to be 2001:db8:cb00:7101::/64.
     Note that, converting from IPv4 decimal to IPv6 colon hexadecimal notation,
     203.0.113.1 corresponds to cb00:7101.

     The IPv6 default route in the following examples (2001:db8::1)  was  chosen
     semi-arbitrary  within  the  6rd prefix but outside of delegated prefix, so
     that all IPv6 packets are routed into the	tun0  interface.   It  could  be
     specified explicitly by the "-ifp tun0" option.

   FreeBSD 9.0
     # ifconfig tun0 create
     # ifconfig tun0 inet6 2001:db8:cb00:7101::1/32
     # ifconfig tun0 inet6 -nud
     # route add -inet6 default 2001:db8::1
     # u6rd -u nobody tun0 2001:db8::/32 198.51.100.1 203.0.113.1

     FreeBSD's tun driver will reset its address after the owning process exits.
     When you restart u6rd, remember to reconfigure the address.

   FreeBSD 9.0 (configuring at start up)
     /etc/rc.conf
	   cloned_interfaces="tun0"
	   ifconfig_tun0_ipv6="inet6 2001:db8:cb00:7101::1/32 -nud"
	   ipv6_defaultrouter="2001:db8::1"
     /etc/start_if.tun0
	   /usr/local/sbin/u6rd -u nobody tun0 2001:db8::/32 \
		   198.51.100.1 203.0.113.1

   NetBSD 5.1
     # ifconfig tun0 create
     # ifconfig tun0 inet6 2001:db8:cb00:7101::1/32
     # ndp -i tun0 -- -nud
     # sysctl -w net.inet6.tcp6.mss_ifmtu=1
     # route add -inet6 default 2001:db8::1
     # u6rd -u nobody tun0 2001:db8::/32 198.51.100.1 203.0.113.1

     Setting net.inet6.tcp6.mss_ifmtu to 1 is recommended.

   Mac OS X 10.7 (Darwin 11.3.0)
     # u6rd -u nobody utun0 2001:db8::/32 198.51.100.1 203.0.113.1
     # ifconfig utun0 inet6 2001:db8:cb00:7101::1/32
     # ndp -i utun0 -- -nud
     # route add -inet6 default 2001:db8::1

     The  utun device, instead of tun, is used on Mac OS X.  A utun interface is
     created by the daemon (cannot be created with ifconfig), so  the  interface
     address  and  the	default  route need to be configured after executing the
     daemon.

   More complex example on FreeBSD
     Parameters are same except that the common prefix length is 8 bits in  your
     6rd addressing domain.  In this case, the delegated prefix is concatenation
     of  the 6rd prefix (32 bits) and unique bits of your IPv4 address (32 - 8 =
     24 bits), so its length is 56 bits.

     # ifconfig tun0 create
     # ifconfig tun0 inet6 2001:db8:71:100::1/32
     # ifconfig tun0 inet6 -nud
     # ifconfig em0 inet6 2001:db8:71:101::1/64
     # route add -inet6 default 2001:db8::1
     # route add -inet6 2001:db8:71:100:: -prefixlen 56 ::1 -reject
     # u6rd -u nobody -r 8 tun0 2001:db8::/32 198.51.100.1 203.0.113.1

SEE ALSO
     tun(4), ifconfig(8), route(8), sysctl(8)

     B. Carpenter and K. Moore, Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds,  RFC
     3056, February 2001.

     P.  Savola and C. Patel, Security Considerations for 6to4, RFC 3964, Decem-
     ber 2004.

     R. Despres, IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures (6rd), RFC  5569,
     January 2010.

     W.  Townsley  and	O.  Troan, IPv6 Rapid Deployment on IPv4 Infrastructures
     (6rd) -- Protocol Specification, RFC 5969, August 2010.

AUTHORS
     KAMADA Ken'ichi.

BUGS
     *	 Relay router functionality is not (and will never be) implemented.
     *	 Some policies (e.g., rejecting private addresses) are hard-coded.   You
	 need  to modify the source code to change those policies, when, for ex-
	 ample, you want to use private addresses as described in Section  4  of
	 RFC 5569.
     *	 Packets are discarded silently without returning ICMPv6 messages.

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	  June 2, 2013				 U6RD(8)

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