diff --git a/share/man/man4/inet6.4 b/share/man/man4/inet6.4 index 00fc8f68d570..1dfefc63a3af 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/inet6.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/inet6.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: inet6.4,v 1.23 2002/05/13 08:23:59 kleink Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: inet6.4,v 1.24 2002/06/07 17:28:46 itojun Exp $ .\" $KAME: inet6.4,v 1.18 2000/11/24 08:50:32 itojun Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project. @@ -269,6 +269,18 @@ message protocol is accessible from a raw socket. .\" .Tn IP .\" packets, whether locally-generated or forwarded, will not. .Ss Interaction between IPv4/v6 sockets +By default, +.Nx +does not route IPv4 traffic to +.Dv AF_INET6 +sockets. +Listen to two sockets if you want to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. +IPv4 traffic may be routed with certain +per-socket/per-node configuration, however, it is not recommended to do so. +Consult +.Xr ip6 4 +for details. +.Pp The behavior of .Dv AF_INET6 TCP/UDP socket is documented in RFC2553. @@ -342,18 +354,6 @@ Users are advised to take care handling connections from IPv4 mapped address to .Dv AF_INET6 sockets. -.Pp -Because of the above, by default, -.Nx -does not route IPv4 traffic to -.Dv AF_INET6 -sockets. -Listen to two sockets if you want to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. -IPv4 traffic may be routed with certain -per-socket/per-node configuration, however, it is not recommended to do so. -Consult -.Xr ip6 4 -for details. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ioctl 2 , .Xr socket 2 ,