Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 02:33:36 +0000 (UTC) From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-projects@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r41841 - projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking Message-ID: <201306050233.r552Xas4090454@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: trhodes Date: Wed Jun 5 02:33:36 2013 New Revision: 41841 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/41841 Log: Wording tweaks to the ipv6/ipv4 mapping section. Suggested by: hrs Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml Modified: projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml Tue Jun 4 22:29:55 2013 (r41840) +++ projects/ISBN_1-57176-407-0/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml Wed Jun 5 02:33:36 2013 (r41841) @@ -5453,14 +5453,19 @@ redirect_port tcp 192.168.0.3:80 80</pro may be a security issue.</para> <para>This option may not be required in most cases and is - available only for compatibility while services are updated - to support <acronym>IPv6</acronym>. To enable the feature, + available only for compatibility. This option will allow + <acronym>IPv6</acronym>-only applications to work with + <acronym>IPv4</acronym> in a dual stack environment. This + is most useful for third party applications which may not + support an <acronym>IPv6</acronym>-only environment. To + enable this feature, add the following to <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename>:</para> <programlisting>ipv6_ipv4mapping="YES"</programlisting> <para>Reviewing the information in <acronym>RFC</acronym> 3493, - section 3.6 and 3.7 may be useful to some adminstrators.</para> + section 3.6 and 3.7 as well as <acronym>RFC</acronym> 4038 + section 4.2 may be useful to some adminstrators.</para> </sect2> </sect1>
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