Merge lp:~jtv/maas/doc-ipv6-tweak into lp:~maas-committers/maas/trunk

Proposed by Jeroen T. Vermeulen
Status: Merged
Approved by: Jeroen T. Vermeulen
Approved revision: no longer in the source branch.
Merged at revision: 3201
Proposed branch: lp:~jtv/maas/doc-ipv6-tweak
Merge into: lp:~maas-committers/maas/trunk
Diff against target: 20 lines (+6/-5)
1 file modified
docs/ipv6.rst (+6/-5)
To merge this branch: bzr merge lp:~jtv/maas/doc-ipv6-tweak
Reviewer Review Type Date Requested Status
Christian Reis (community) Approve
Newell Jensen (community) Approve
Review via email: mp+237527@code.launchpad.net

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Tweak to IPv6 documentation's Routing section.

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Newell Jensen (newell-jensen) :
review: Approve
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Christian Reis (kiko) wrote :

Thanks!

review: Approve

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1=== modified file 'docs/ipv6.rst'
2--- docs/ipv6.rst 2014-10-07 10:36:38 +0000
3+++ docs/ipv6.rst 2014-10-08 03:48:57 +0000
4@@ -89,12 +89,13 @@
5 subnet, several of these address assignment mechanisms can be combined.
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7 MAAS statically configures your nodes' default IPv6 route to use the router
8-configured on the cluster interface, if there is one, so that the nodes will
9-know their default gateway. If you are planning to operate DHCPv6 clients that
10-need routing information, you may still want route advertisements configured to
11-make those clients obtain configuration over DHCP.
12+that is configured on the cluster interface, so that the nodes will know their
13+default gateway. They do not need DHCP. However, if you are planning to
14+operate DHCPv6 clients as well, e.g. on machines not managed by MAAS or on
15+virtual machines hosted by MAAS nodes, you may still want to have RAs
16+configured to make those clients obtain configuration over DHCP.
17
18-If you want RAs but your gateway does not send them, install and configure
19+If you need RAs but your gateway does not send them, install and configure
20 ``radvd`` somewhere on the network to advertise its route.
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