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[iproute2,4/4] man: iplink: document new addrgenmodes

Message ID 1451901486-3497-5-git-send-email-bjorn@mork.no
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: stephen hemminger
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Bjørn Mork Jan. 4, 2016, 9:58 a.m. UTC 
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
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 man/man8/ip-link.8.in | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
index ac6f4813a329..189a8f15fa03 100644
--- a/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
+++ b/man/man8/ip-link.8.in
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@  ip-link \- network device configuration
 .br
 .B nomaster " |"
 .br
-.B addrgenmode { eui64 | none }
+.B addrgenmode { eui64 | none | stable_secret | random }
 .br
 .B link-netnsid ID
 .BR " }"
@@ -1029,8 +1029,20 @@  set master device of the device (enslave device).
 unset master device of the device (release device).
 
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-.BR "addrgenmode eui64 " or " addrgenmode none"
-set IPv6 address generation mode
+.BI addrgenmode " eui64|none|stable_secret|random"
+set the IPv6 address generation mode
+
+.I eui64
+- use a Modified EUI-64 format interface identifier
+
+.I none
+- disable automatic address generation
+
+.I stable_secret
+- generate the interface identifier based on a preset /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/{default,DEVICE}/stable_secret
+
+.I random
+- like stable_secret, but auto-generate a new random secret if none is set
 
 .TP
 .BR "link-netnsid "