From 1c8abb343a44eef755b7aed1ef21aaf176a96d13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 13:17:15 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] man: mention that DefaultRouteOnDevice= create the IPv4
 default route

And add an example setting for creating an IPv6 default route.

Closes #25440.

(cherry picked from commit 15f330cf8745e68abc429765dafdd8d04ebf7154)
---
 man/systemd.network.xml | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index ffed2ee066..2557417cc5 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -421,7 +421,7 @@
       <varlistentry>
         <term><varname>DefaultRouteOnDevice=</varname></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Takes a boolean. If set to true, sets up the default route bound to the interface.
+          <para>Takes a boolean. If set to true, sets up the IPv4 default route bound to the interface.
           Defaults to false. This is useful when creating routes on point-to-point interfaces. This is
           equivalent to e.g. the following,
           <programlisting>ip route add default dev veth99</programlisting>
@@ -433,6 +433,11 @@ Gateway=0.0.0.0</programlisting></para>
           following instead:
           <programlisting>[Route]
 Gateway=0.0.0.0
+Table=1234</programlisting></para>
+          <para>If you'd like to create an IPv6 default route bound to the interface, please use the
+          following:
+          <programlisting>[Route]
+Gateway=::
 Table=1234</programlisting></para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>