What is the meaning of the IPv6 config options in CentOS 7?

Solution 1:

Thanks for the great links although I was really after the answer with regards to the meaning of those IPv6 options I specified, not links to their meaning, as the links may suffer from link-rot.

From:

IPV6ADDR             #<addr/mask> - Where address is the first static, or primary, IPv6 address on an interface. 
IPV6ADDR_SECONDARIES #<addr/mask> Option additional addresses .
IPV6_AUTOCONF        #<yes/no> - Enable IPv6 autoconf configuration for this interface (an IPv6 address will be requested using Neighbor Discovery (ND)).
IPV6_AUTOTUNNEL      #<yes/no> - Control IPv6 automatic tunneling (device sit0)
IPV6_DEFAULTGW       #<addr> - IPv6 default gateway
IPV6_DEFROUTE        #Does option even exist?
IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL   #<yes/no> - Whether the device is disabled if IPv6 configuration fails.
IPV6FORWARDING       #<yes/no>- Control IPv6 forwarding (box acting as router).
IPV6INIT             #<yes/no> - Initialize this interface for IPv6 addressing.
IPV6_MTU             #<integer> IPv6 MTU for this link.
IPV6_PEERDNS         #<yes/no> - Does this option exist? I assume it does the same as the IPv6 version?
IPV6_ROUTER          #<yes/no> - Control sending of router advertisements and isRouter on neigbor advertisements.


# defaults:
# IPV6_AUTOCONF=(see IPV6FORWARDING)
# IPV6_AUTOTUNNEL=no
# IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=???
# IPV6FORWARDING=no
#  if IPV6FORWARDING=yes: IPV6_AUTOCONF=no, IPV6_ROUTER=yes
#  if IPV6FORWARDING=no:  IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes
# IPV6INIT=no
# IPV6_PEERDNS=???
# IPV6_ROUTER=(see IPV6FORWARDING)

Sources: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html

https://www.deepspace6.net/projects/initscripts-ipv6.html#idm140568487160560

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E41138/html/ol_about_netconf.html

and cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipv6

Solution 2:

The manuals are a bit spotty. Different manuals have different parts of the story.

• rhel6 networkscripts manual
• initscripts-ipv6 manual
• oracle linux netconf manual
• and also man -k network to search for hopeful pages.

That list should hit all of the options you mentioned; the IPV6_* options usually work like their ipv4 counterparts.

As far as a centos official one... there's the wiki, I guess, but I can never find what I want on there. As usual, the scripts themselves are the authoritative source.