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IP6ADDRCTL(8)		  BSD System Manager's Manual		 IP6ADDRCTL(8)

NAME
     ip6addrctl	-- configure address selection policy for IPv6 and IPv4

SYNOPSIS
     ip6addrctl	[show]
     ip6addrctl	add prefix precedence label
     ip6addrctl	delete prefix
     ip6addrctl	flush
     ip6addrctl	install	configfile

DESCRIPTION
     The ip6addrctl command manages the	policy table of	source and destination
     address selection for outgoing IPv4 and IPv6 packets.  When ip6addrctl is
     invoked without an	argument or with a single argument show, it prints the
     content of	the policy table currently installed in	the kernel.

     To	modify the table, the following	operations are available:

     add prefix	precedence label
	     add a policy entry.  Prefix is an IPv6 prefix, which is a key for
	     the entry.	 An IPv4 prefix	should be specified with an IPv6 pre-
	     fix using an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address.  Precedence	and label are
	     decimal numbers, which specify the	precedence and label values
	     for the entry, respectively.  This	operation should be performed
	     without an	existing entry for the prefix.

     delete prefix
	     delete a policy entry specified by	prefix,	which should be	an
	     IPv6 prefix.  A corresponding entry for the prefix	should have
	     already been installed.

     flush   delete all	existing policy	entries	in the kernel.

     install configfile
	     install policy entries from a configuration file named
	     configfile.  The configuration file should	contain	a set of pol-
	     icy entries.  Each	entry is specified in a	single line which con-
	     tains an IPv6 prefix, a decimal precedence	value, and a decimal
	     label value, separated with white space or	tab characters.	 In
	     the configuration file, lines beginning with the pound-sign (#)
	     are comments and are ignored.

RETURN VALUES
     The program exits with 0 on success, non-zero on failures.

SEE ALSO
     Richard Draves, "Default Address Selection	for IPv6", RFC 3484.

HISTORY
     The ip6addrctl command first appeared in the KAME IPv6 protocol stack
     kit.  The original	command	name was addrselect, but it was	then renamed
     to	the current one	so that	the name would describe	its function well.

BSD			      September	25, 2001			   BSD

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