From 8832c6c4cf7d1425684dd8e56984e407fe3e2aac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arne Schwabe Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 13:31:18 +0100 Subject: Implement listing on IPv4/IPv6 dual socket on all platform With this patch OpenVPN will listen on Ipv4 as well as IPv6 when an IPv6 socket is used. Using bind ipv6only will disable this behavior Acked-by: Gert Doering Message-Id: <1385382680-5912-7-git-send-email-arne@rfc2549.org> URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/8052 Signed-off-by: Gert Doering --- doc/openvpn.8 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/openvpn.8 b/doc/openvpn.8 index d5376f9..f06d536 100644 --- a/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ TCP/UDP port number or name for bind. TCP/UDP port number or name for remote. .\"********************************************************* .TP -.B \-\-bind +.B \-\-bind [ipv6only] Bind to local address and port. This is the default unless any of .B \-\-proto tcp-client , @@ -692,6 +692,12 @@ Bind to local address and port. This is the default unless any of or .B \-\-socks-proxy are used. + +If the +.B ipv6only +keyword is present OpenVPN will bind only to IPv6 (as oposed +to IPv6 and IPv4) when a IPv6 socket is opened. + .\"********************************************************* .TP .B \-\-nobind -- cgit