community.network.ipadm_ifprop module – Manage IP interface properties on Solaris/illumos systems.

Note

This module is part of the community.network collection (version 5.1.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.network.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.network.ipadm_ifprop.

Note

The community.network collection has been deprecated and will be removed from Ansible 12. See the discussion thread for more information.

DEPRECATED

Removed in:

version 6.0.0

Why:

This collection and all content in it is unmaintained and deprecated.

Alternative:

Unknown.

Synopsis

• Modify IP interface properties on Solaris/illumos systems.

Aliases: network.illumos.ipadm_ifprop

Parameters

Parameter	Comments
interface aliases: nic string / required	Specifies the IP interface we want to manage.
property aliases: name string / required	Specifies the name of the property we want to manage.
protocol string / required	Specifies the protocol for which we want to manage properties.
state string	Set or reset the property value. Choices: "present" ← (default) "absent" "reset"
temporary boolean	Specifies that the property value is temporary. Temporary property values do not persist across reboots. Choices: false ← (default) true
value string	Specifies the value we want to set for the property.

Examples

- name: Allow forwarding of IPv4 packets on network interface e1000g0
  community.network.ipadm_ifprop: protocol=ipv4 property=forwarding value=on interface=e1000g0

- name: Temporarily reset IPv4 forwarding property on network interface e1000g0
  community.network.ipadm_ifprop: protocol=ipv4 interface=e1000g0  temporary=true property=forwarding state=reset

- name: Configure IPv6 metric on network interface e1000g0
  community.network.ipadm_ifprop: protocol=ipv6 nic=e1000g0 name=metric value=100

- name: Set IPv6 MTU on network interface bge0
  community.network.ipadm_ifprop: interface=bge0 name=mtu value=1280 protocol=ipv6

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Description
interface string	interface name we want to set property on Returned: always Sample: "e1000g0"
property string	property’s name Returned: always Sample: "mtu"
protocol string	property’s protocol Returned: always Sample: "ipv4"
state string	state of the target Returned: always Sample: "present"
value string	property’s value Returned: when value is provided Sample: "1280"

Status

• This module will be removed in version 6.0.0. [deprecated]

• For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

• Adam Števko (@xen0l)

Collection links

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