faith(4)
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FAITH(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual FAITH(4)
NAME
faith -- IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay capturing interface
SYNOPSIS
pseudo-device faith
DESCRIPTION
The faith interface captures IPv6 TCP traffic, for implementing userland
IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay like faithd(8).
faith interfaces are dynamically created and destroyed with the
ifconfig(8) create and destroy subcommands.
Special action will be taken when IPv6 TCP traffic is seen on a router,
and the routing table suggests to route it to the faith interface. In
this case, the packet will be accepted by the router, regardless of the
list of IPv6 interface addresses assigned to the router. The packet will
be captured by an IPv6 TCP socket, if it has the IN6P_FAITH flag turned
on and matching address/port pairs. As a result, faith will let you cap-
ture IPv6 TCP traffic to some specific destination addresses. Userland
programs, such as faithd(8) can use this behavior to relay IPv6 TCP traf-
fic to IPv4 TCP traffic. The program can accept some specific IPv6 TCP
traffic, perform getsockname(2) to get the IPv6 destination address spec-
ified by the client, and perform application-specific address mapping to
relay IPv6 TCP to IPv4 TCP.
IN6P_FAITH flag on an IPv6 TCP socket can be set by using setsockopt(2),
with level IPPROTO_IPV6 and optname IPv6_FAITH.
To handle error reports by ICMPv6, some ICMPv6 packets routed to an faith
interface will be delivered to IPv6 TCP, as well.
To understand how faith can be used, take a look at the source code of
faithd(8).
As the faith interface implements potentially dangerous operations, great
care must be taken when configuring it. To avoid possible misuse, the
sysctl(8) variable net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith must be set to 1 prior to
using the interface. When net.inet6.ip6.keepfaith is 0, no packets will
be captured by the faith interface.
The faith interface is intended to be used on routers, not on hosts.
SEE ALSO
inet(4), inet6(4), faithd(8)
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino and Kazu Yamamoto, "An IPv6-to-IPv4 transport
relay translator", RFC 3142, ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3142.txt, June
2001.
HISTORY
The FAITH IPv6-to-IPv4 TCP relay translator first appeared in the WIDE
hydrangea IPv6 stack.
NetBSD 9.3 January 9, 2010 NetBSD 9.3
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