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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 249925 26-Apr-2013 glebius

Add const qualifier to the dst parameter of the ifnet if_output method.


# 245230 09-Jan-2013 ume

Add no_prefer_iface option.
It stops treating the address on the interface as special by source
address selection rule even when the interface is outgoing interface.
This is desired in some situation.

Requested by: hrs
Reviewed by: IHANet folks including hrs
MFC after: 1 week


# 241916 22-Oct-2012 delphij

Remove __P.

Submitted by: kevlo
Reviewed by: md5(1)
MFC after: 2 months


# 238273 09-Jul-2012 hrs

Remove "prefer_source" address selection option. FreeBSD has had an
implementation of RFC 3484 for this purpose for a long time and "prefer_source"
was never implemented actually. ND6_IFF_PREFER_SOURCE macro is left intact.


# 229547 04-Jan-2012 bz

Mark a couple of file local functions static and stop exporting them.

MFC after: 1 week


# 228966 29-Dec-2011 jhb

Use queue(3) macros instead of home-rolled versions in several places in
the INET6 code. This includes retiring the 'ndpr_next' and 'pfr_next'
macros.

Submitted by: pluknet (earlier version)
Reviewed by: pluknet


# 227460 11-Nov-2011 qingli

A default route learned from the RAs could be deleted manually
after its installation. This removal may be accidental and can
prevent the default route from being installed in the future if
the associated default router has the best preference. The cause
is the lack of status update in the default router on the state
of its route installation in the kernel FIB. This patch fixes
the described problem.

Reviewed by: hrs, discussed with hrs
MFC after: 5 days


# 222728 06-Jun-2011 hrs

- Accept Router Advertisement messages even when net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1.

- A new per-interface knob IFF_ND6_NO_RADR and sysctl IPV6CTL_NO_RADR.
This controls if accepting a route in an RA message as the default route.
The default value for each interface can be set by net.inet6.ip6.no_radr.
The system wide default value is 0.

- A new sysctl: net.inet6.ip6.norbit_raif. This controls if setting R-bit in
NA on RA accepting interfaces. The default is 0 (R-bit is set based on
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding).

Background:

IPv6 host/router model suggests a router sends an RA and a host accepts it for
router discovery. Because of that, KAME implementation does not allow
accepting RAs when net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1. Accepting RAs on a router can
make the routing table confused since it can change the default router
unintentionally.

However, in practice there are cases where we cannot distinguish a host from
a router clearly. For example, a customer edge router often works as a host
against the ISP, and as a router against the LAN at the same time. Another
example is a complex network configurations like an L2TP tunnel for IPv6
connection to Internet over an Ethernet link with another native IPv6 subnet.
In this case, the physical interface for the native IPv6 subnet works as a
host, and the pseudo-interface for L2TP works as the default IP forwarding
route.

Problem:

Disabling processing RA messages when net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1 and
accepting them when net.inet6.ip6.forward=0 cause the following practical
issues:

- A router cannot perform SLAAC. It becomes a problem if a box has
multiple interfaces and you want to use SLAAC on some of them, for
example. A customer edge router for IPv6 Internet access service
using an IPv6-over-IPv6 tunnel sometimes needs SLAAC on the
physical interface for administration purpose; updating firmware
and so on (link-local addresses can be used there, but GUAs by
SLAAC are often used for scalability).

- When a host has multiple IPv6 interfaces and it receives multiple RAs on
them, controlling the default route is difficult. Router preferences
defined in RFC 4191 works only when the routers on the links are
under your control.

Details of Implementation Changes:

Router Advertisement messages will be accepted even when
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1. More precisely, the conditions are as
follow:

(ACCEPT_RTADV && !NO_RADR && !ip6.forwarding)
=> Normal RA processing on that interface. (as IPv6 host)

(ACCEPT_RTADV && (NO_RADR || ip6.forwarding))
=> Accept RA but add the router to the defroute list with
rtlifetime=0 unconditionally. This effectively prevents
from setting the received router address as the box's
default route.

(!ACCEPT_RTADV)
=> No RA processing on that interface.

ACCEPT_RTADV and NO_RADR are per-interface knob. In short, all interface
are classified as "RA-accepting" or not. An RA-accepting interface always
processes RA messages regardless of ip6.forwarding. The difference caused by
NO_RADR or ip6.forwarding is whether the RA source address is considered as
the default router or not.

R-bit in NA on the RA accepting interfaces is set based on
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding. While RFC 6204 W-1 rule (for CPE case) suggests
a router should disable the R-bit completely even when the box has
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding=1, I believe there is no technical reason with
doing so. This behavior can be set by a new sysctl net.inet6.ip6.norbit_raif
(the default is 0).

Usage:

# ifconfig fxp0 inet6 accept_rtadv
=> accept RA on fxp0
# ifconfig fxp0 inet6 accept_rtadv no_radr
=> accept RA on fxp0 but ignore default route information in it.
# sysctl net.inet6.ip6.norbit_no_radr=1
=> R-bit in NAs on RA accepting interfaces will always be set to 0.


# 207369 29-Apr-2010 bz

MFP4: @176978-176982, 176984, 176990-176994, 177441

"Whitspace" churn after the VIMAGE/VNET whirls.

Remove the need for some "init" functions within the network
stack, like pim6_init(), icmp_init() or significantly shorten
others like ip6_init() and nd6_init(), using static initialization
again where possible and formerly missed.

Move (most) variables back to the place they used to be before the
container structs and VIMAGE_GLOABLS (before r185088) and try to
reduce the diff to stable/7 and earlier as good as possible,
to help out-of-tree consumers to update from 6.x or 7.x to 8 or 9.

This also removes some header file pollution for putatively
static global variables.

Revert VIMAGE specific changes in ipfilter::ip_auth.c, that are
no longer needed.

Reviewed by: jhb
Discussed with: rwatson
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: CK Software GmbH
MFC after: 6 days


# 197138 12-Sep-2009 hrs

Improve flexibility of receiving Router Advertisement and
automatic link-local address configuration:

- Convert a sysctl net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv to one for the
default value of a per-IF flag ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV, not a
global knob. The default value of the sysctl is 0.

- Add a new per-IF flag ND6_IFF_AUTO_LINKLOCAL and convert a
sysctl net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal to one for its default
value. The default value of the sysctl is 1.

- Make ND6_IFF_IFDISABLED more robust. It can be used to disable
IPv6 functionality of an interface now.

- Receiving RA is allowed if ip6_forwarding==0 *and*
ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV is set on that interface. The former
condition will be revisited later to support a "host + router" box
like IPv6 CPE router. The current behavior is compatible with
the older releases of FreeBSD.

- The ifconfig(8) now supports these ND6 flags as well as "nud",
"prefer_source", and "disabled" in ndp(8). The ndp(8) now
supports "auto_linklocal".

Discussed with: bz and jinmei
Reviewed by: bz
MFC after: 3 days


# 195727 16-Jul-2009 rwatson

Remove unused VNET_SET() and related macros; only VNET_GET() is
ever actually used. Rename VNET_GET() to VNET() to shorten
variable references.

Discussed with: bz, julian
Reviewed by: bz
Approved by: re (kensmith, kib)


# 195699 14-Jul-2009 rwatson

Build on Jeff Roberson's linker-set based dynamic per-CPU allocator
(DPCPU), as suggested by Peter Wemm, and implement a new per-virtual
network stack memory allocator. Modify vnet to use the allocator
instead of monolithic global container structures (vinet, ...). This
change solves many binary compatibility problems associated with
VIMAGE, and restores ELF symbols for virtualized global variables.

Each virtualized global variable exists as a "reference copy", and also
once per virtual network stack. Virtualized global variables are
tagged at compile-time, placing the in a special linker set, which is
loaded into a contiguous region of kernel memory. Virtualized global
variables in the base kernel are linked as normal, but those in modules
are copied and relocated to a reserved portion of the kernel's vnet
region with the help of a the kernel linker.

Virtualized global variables exist in per-vnet memory set up when the
network stack instance is created, and are initialized statically from
the reference copy. Run-time access occurs via an accessor macro, which
converts from the current vnet and requested symbol to a per-vnet
address. When "options VIMAGE" is not compiled into the kernel, normal
global ELF symbols will be used instead and indirection is avoided.

This change restores static initialization for network stack global
variables, restores support for non-global symbols and types, eliminates
the need for many subsystem constructors, eliminates large per-subsystem
structures that caused many binary compatibility issues both for
monitoring applications (netstat) and kernel modules, removes the
per-function INIT_VNET_*() macros throughout the stack, eliminates the
need for vnet_symmap ksym(2) munging, and eliminates duplicate
definitions of virtualized globals under VIMAGE_GLOBALS.

Bump __FreeBSD_version and update UPDATING.

Portions submitted by: bz
Reviewed by: bz, zec
Discussed with: gnn, jamie, jeff, jhb, julian, sam
Suggested by: peter
Approved by: re (kensmith)


# 193731 08-Jun-2009 zec

Introduce an infrastructure for dismantling vnet instances.

Vnet modules and protocol domains may now register destructor
functions to clean up and release per-module state. The destructor
mechanisms can be triggered by invoking "vimage -d", or a future
equivalent command which will be provided via the new jail framework.

While this patch introduces numerous placeholder destructor functions,
many of those are currently incomplete, thus leaking memory or (even
worse) failing to stop all running timers. Many of such issues are
already known and will be incrementaly fixed over the next weeks in
smaller incremental commits.

Apart from introducing new fields in structs ifnet, domain, protosw
and vnet_net, which requires the kernel and modules to be rebuilt, this
change should have no impact on nooptions VIMAGE builds, since vnet
destructors can only be called in VIMAGE kernels. Moreover,
destructor functions should be in general compiled in only in
options VIMAGE builds, except for kernel modules which can be safely
kldunloaded at run time.

Bump __FreeBSD_version to 800097.
Reviewed by: bz, julian
Approved by: rwatson, kib (re), julian (mentor)


# 191148 16-Apr-2009 kmacy

Change if_output to take a struct route as its fourth argument in order
to allow passing a cached struct llentry * down to L2

Reviewed by: rwatson


# 186215 17-Dec-2008 qingli

in6_clsroute() was applied to prefix routes causing some
of them to expire. in6_clsroute() was only applied to
cloned routes that are no longer applicable after the
arp-v2 commit.


# 186119 15-Dec-2008 qingli

This main goals of this project are:
1. separating L2 tables (ARP, NDP) from the L3 routing tables
2. removing as much locking dependencies among these layers as
possible to allow for some parallelism in the search operations
3. simplify the logic in the routing code,

The most notable end result is the obsolescent of the route
cloning (RTF_CLONING) concept, which translated into code reduction
in both IPv4 ARP and IPv6 NDP related modules, and size reduction in
struct rtentry{}. The change in design obsoletes the semantics of
RTF_CLONING, RTF_WASCLONE and RTF_LLINFO routing flags. The userland
applications such as "arp" and "ndp" have been modified to reflect
those changes. The output from "netstat -r" shows only the routing
entries.

Quite a few developers have contributed to this project in the
past: Glebius Smirnoff, Luigi Rizzo, Alessandro Cerri, and
Andre Oppermann. And most recently:

- Kip Macy revised the locking code completely, thus completing
the last piece of the puzzle, Kip has also been conducting
active functional testing
- Sam Leffler has helped me improving/refactoring the code, and
provided valuable reviews
- Julian Elischer setup the perforce tree for me and has helped
me maintaining that branch before the svn conversion


# 185937 11-Dec-2008 bz

Put a global variables, which were virtualized but formerly
missed under VIMAGE_GLOBAL.

Start putting the extern declarations of the virtualized globals
under VIMAGE_GLOBAL as the globals themsevles are already.
This will help by the time when we are going to remove the globals
entirely.

While there garbage collect a few dead externs from ip6_var.h.

Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 183529 01-Oct-2008 cperciva

Default to ignoring potentially evil IPv6 Neighbor Solicitation
messages.

Approved by: so (cperciva)
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Security: FreeBSD-SA-08:10.nd6
Thanks to: jinmei, bz


# 181803 17-Aug-2008 bz

Commit step 1 of the vimage project, (network stack)
virtualization work done by Marko Zec (zec@).

This is the first in a series of commits over the course
of the next few weeks.

Mark all uses of global variables to be virtualized
with a V_ prefix.
Use macros to map them back to their global names for
now, so this is a NOP change only.

We hope to have caught at least 85-90% of what is needed
so we do not invalidate a lot of outstanding patches again.

Obtained from: //depot/projects/vimage-commit2/...
Reviewed by: brooks, des, ed, mav, julian,
jamie, kris, rwatson, zec, ...
(various people I forgot, different versions)
md5 (with a bit of help)
Sponsored by: NLnet Foundation, The FreeBSD Foundation
X-MFC after: never
V_Commit_Message_Reviewed_By: more people than the patch


# 174510 10-Dec-2007 obrien

Clean up VCS Ids.


# 151539 21-Oct-2005 suz

sync with KAME regarding NDP

- introduced fine-grain-timer to manage ND-caches and IPv6 Multicast-Listeners
- supports Router-Preference <draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-07.txt>
- better prefix lifetime management
- more spec-comformant DAD advertisement
- updated RFC/internet-draft revisions

Obtained from: KAME
Reviewed by: ume, gnn
MFC after: 2 month


# 151474 19-Oct-2005 suz

supported an ndp command suboption to disable IPv6 in the given interface

Obtained from: KAME
Reviewd by: ume, gnn
MFC after: 2 week


# 139826 07-Jan-2005 imp

/* -> /*- for license, minor formatting changes, separate for KAME


# 121807 31-Oct-2003 ume

use arc4random.

Obtained from: KAME


# 121576 26-Oct-2003 ume

drop unused defines.


# 121575 26-Oct-2003 ume

drop unused fields.


# 121472 24-Oct-2003 ume

Switch Advanced Sockets API for IPv6 from RFC2292 to RFC3542
(aka RFC2292bis). Though I believe this commit doesn't break
backward compatibility againt existing binaries, it breaks
backward compatibility of API.
Now, the applications which use Advanced Sockets API such as
telnet, ping6, mld6query and traceroute6 use RFC3542 API.

Obtained from: KAME


# 121283 20-Oct-2003 ume

correct linkmtu handling.

Obtained from: KAME


# 121161 17-Oct-2003 ume

- add dom_if{attach,detach} framework.
- transition to use ifp->if_afdata.

Obtained from: KAME


# 120941 09-Oct-2003 ume

- typo in comment
- style
- ANSIfy
(there is no functional change.)

Obtained from: KAME


# 118498 05-Aug-2003 ume

introduced a flag bit "ND6_IFF_ACCEPT_RTADV" in the nd_ifinfo structure to
control whether to accept RAs per-interface basis.
the new stuff ensures the backward compatibility;
- the kernel does not accept RAs on any interfaces by default.
- since the default value of the flag bit is on, the kernel accepts RAs
on all interfaces when net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv is 1.

Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 1 week


# 95023 19-Apr-2002 suz

just merged cosmetic changes from KAME to ease sync between KAME and FreeBSD.
(based on freebsd4-snap-20020128)

Reviewed by: ume
MFC after: 1 week


# 85074 17-Oct-2001 ru

Pull post-4.4BSD change to sys/net/route.c from BSD/OS 4.2.

Have sys/net/route.c:rtrequest1(), which takes ``rt_addrinfo *''
as the argument. Pass rt_addrinfo all the way down to rtrequest1
and ifa->ifa_rtrequest. 3rd argument of ifa->ifa_rtrequest is now
``rt_addrinfo *'' instead of ``sockaddr *'' (almost noone is
using it anyways).

Benefit: the following command now works. Previously we needed
two route(8) invocations, "add" then "change".
# route add -inet6 default ::1 -ifp gif0

Remove unsafe typecast in rtrequest(), from ``rtentry *'' to
``sockaddr *''. It was introduced by 4.3BSD-Reno and never
corrected.

Obtained from: BSD/OS, NetBSD
MFC after: 1 month
PR: kern/28360


# 81369 09-Aug-2001 simokawa

Fix unaligned access (fault) on alpha with ndp -p/-r and sysctl -a.
Discussed on users@jp.ipv6.org

MFC candidate.


# 78064 11-Jun-2001 ume

Sync with recent KAME.
This work was based on kame-20010528-freebsd43-snap.tgz and some
critical problem after the snap was out were fixed.
There are many many changes since last KAME merge.

TODO:
- The definitions of SADB_* in sys/net/pfkeyv2.h are still different
from RFC2407/IANA assignment because of binary compatibility
issue. It should be fixed under 5-CURRENT.
- ip6po_m member of struct ip6_pktopts is no longer used. But, it
is still there because of binary compatibility issue. It should
be removed under 5-CURRENT.

Reviewed by: itojun
Obtained from: KAME
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 72093 06-Feb-2001 asmodai

Fix typo: compatability -> compatibility.

Compatability is not an existing english word.


# 62587 04-Jul-2000 itojun

sync with kame tree as of july00. tons of bug fixes/improvements.

API changes:
- additional IPv6 ioctls
- IPsec PF_KEY API was changed, it is mandatory to upgrade setkey(8).
(also syntax change)


# 60938 26-May-2000 jake

Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by: msmith and others


# 60833 23-May-2000 jake

Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by: phk
Reviewed by: phk
Approved by: mdodd


# 54263 07-Dec-1999 shin

udp IPv6 support, IPv6/IPv4 tunneling support in kernel,
packet divert at kernel for IPv6/IPv4 translater daemon

This includes queue related patch submitted by jburkhol@home.com.

Submitted by: queue related patch from jburkhol@home.com
Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project


# 53541 22-Nov-1999 shin

KAME netinet6 basic part(no IPsec,no V6 Multicast Forwarding, no UDP/TCP
for IPv6 yet)

With this patch, you can assigne IPv6 addr automatically, and can reply to
IPv6 ping.

Reviewed by: freebsd-arch, cvs-committers
Obtained from: KAME project