Bug 209822

Summary: Patch to document missing IPv6 flags in ifconfig(8)
Product: Documentation Reporter: Sevan Janiyan <venture37>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: allanjude
Priority: ---    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Sevan Janiyan 2016-05-29 02:46:41 UTC
Created attachment 170776 [details]
ifconfig(8) inet6

Document the following options supported by ifconfig(8)
tentative / -tentative
deprecated / -deprecated
pltime
vltime
autoconf? / -autoconf

the autoconf description is rudimentary and could do with distinguishing it from accept_rtadv.

ifconfig(8) man page from OpenBSD mentions "If autoconf is enabled router advertisements are accepted on this interface and the kernel sends periodic router solicitations from this interface"

On DragonFly BSD same man page claims "(Inet6 only.)  Enable autoconfiguration."
Comment 1 Sevan Janiyan 2016-05-29 03:20:22 UTC
(In reply to Sevan Janiyan from comment #0)

Please ignore "tentative / -tentative", that shouldn't have made it to the list
Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2016-05-29 03:44:49 UTC
A commit references this bug:

Author: allanjude
Date: Sun May 29 03:44:37 UTC 2016
New revision: 300933
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/300933

Log:
  Add Documentation for missing ifconfig(8) flags

  autoconf / -autoconf
  deprecated / -deprecated
  pltime
  vltime

  PR:		209822
  Submitted by:	Sevan Janiyan <venture37@geeklan.co.uk>
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Changes:
  head/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8