community.network.dladm_iptun module – Manage IP tunnel interfaces 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.dladm_iptun.

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

  • Manage IP tunnel interfaces on Solaris/illumos systems.

Aliases: network.illumos.dladm_iptun

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

local_address

aliases: local

string

Literal IP address or hostname corresponding to the tunnel source.

name

string / required

IP tunnel interface name.

remote_address

aliases: remote

string

Literal IP address or hostname corresponding to the tunnel destination.

state

string

Create or delete Solaris/illumos VNIC.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

temporary

boolean

Specifies that the IP tunnel interface is temporary. Temporary IP tunnel interfaces do not persist across reboots.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

type

aliases: tunnel_type

string

Specifies the type of tunnel to be created.

Choices:

  • "ipv4" ← (default)

  • "ipv6"

  • "6to4"

Examples

- name: Create IPv4 tunnel interface 'iptun0'
  community.network.dladm_iptun: name=iptun0 local_address=192.0.2.23 remote_address=203.0.113.10 state=present

- name: Change IPv4 tunnel remote address
  community.network.dladm_iptun: name=iptun0 type=ipv4 local_address=192.0.2.23 remote_address=203.0.113.11

- name: Create IPv6 tunnel interface 'tun0'
  community.network.dladm_iptun: name=tun0 type=ipv6 local_address=192.0.2.23 remote_address=203.0.113.42

- name: Remove 'iptun0' tunnel interface
  community.network.dladm_iptun: name=iptun0 state=absent

Return Values

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

Key

Description

local_address

string

local IP address

Returned: always

Sample: "1.1.1.1/32"

name

string

tunnel interface name

Returned: always

Sample: "iptun0"

remote_address

string

remote IP address

Returned: always

Sample: "2.2.2.2/32"

state

string

state of the target

Returned: always

Sample: "present"

temporary

boolean

specifies if operation will persist across reboots

Returned: always

Sample: true

type

string

tunnel type

Returned: always

Sample: "ipv4"

Status

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

  • For more information see DEPRECATED.

Authors

  • Adam Števko (@xen0l)