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authorSusant Sahani <ssahani@redhat.com>2019-05-01 12:13:23 +0530
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>2019-05-04 16:45:57 +0200
commit8bc17bb3f707c99b6c9ad295563c92b38141a1f4 (patch)
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parent6450ee3f8c841dce72d8d5b986813bf2cf7dbdf8 (diff)
downloadsystemd-8bc17bb3f707c99b6c9ad295563c92b38141a1f4.tar.gz
networkd: Option to use LinkLocalAddressing only when DHCP fails
When LinkLocalAddressing=fallback or LinkLocalAddressing=ipv4-fallback then IPv4LL will be started only when DHCP fails. Closes #9648.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index 604eea4c18..b86bcf03ef 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -326,9 +326,16 @@
<term><varname>LinkLocalAddressing=</varname></term>
<listitem>
<para>Enables link-local address autoconfiguration. Accepts <literal>yes</literal>,
- <literal>no</literal>, <literal>ipv4</literal>, or <literal>ipv6</literal>. If
- <varname>Bridge=</varname> is set, defaults to <literal>no</literal>, and if not,
- defaults to <literal>ipv6</literal>.</para>
+ <literal>no</literal>, <literal>ipv4</literal>, <literal>ipv6</literal>,
+ <literal>fallback</literal>, or <literal>ipv4-fallback</literal>. If
+ <literal>fallback</literal> or <literal>ipv4-fallback</literal> is specified, then an IPv4
+ link-local address is configured only when DHCPv4 fails. If <literal>fallback</literal>,
+ an IPv6 link-local address is always configured, and if <literal>ipv4-fallback</literal>,
+ the address is not configured. Note that, the fallback mechanism works only when DHCPv4
+ client is enabled, that is, it requires <literal>DHCP=yes</literal> or
+ <literal>DHCP=ipv4</literal>. If <varname>Bridge=</varname> is set, defaults to
+ <literal>no</literal>, and if not, defaults to <literal>ipv6</literal>.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>