ip6_tnl_create(9)

💖 ip6_tnl_create(9) 💖

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual — yes, the kernel has its own manual, she's iconic like that — and today we're looking at ip6_tnl_create, which is literally the "make a new tunnel" girlie. Let's go 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ip6_tnl_create — create a new tunnel 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct ip6_tnl * ip6_tnl_create (struct net *net , struct __ip6_tnl_parm *p );

That's the whole vibe: you hand her a network namespace and some params, she hands you back a tunnel. Periodt. 💅

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• net — the network namespace, bestie. That's the world this tunnel is gonna live in 🌈
• p — the tunnel parameters. All the little details about what kind of tunnel you want ✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Create a tunnel matching the given parameters. That's it, that's the whole thing — you give her the params, she matches them up and builds you a tunnel. no cap 😌

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

She returns the created tunnel, or an error pointer if things went sideways 😭 — so like, pls check it, don't just rawdog the return value, iykyk.

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c — and honestly the whole friend group:

• ip6_tnl_lookup(9)
• ip6_tnl_bucket(9)
• ip6_tnl_link(9)
• ip6_tnl_unlink(9)
• ip6_tnl_locate(9)
• ip6_tnl_dev_uninit(9)
• ip6_tnl_parse_tlv_enc_lim(9)
• ip6_tnl_addr_conflict(9)
• ip6_tnl_xmit(9)
• ip6_tnl_change(9)
• ip6_tnl_siocdevprivate(9)
• ip6_tnl_change_mtu(9)
• ip6_tnl_dev_setup(9)
• ip6_tnl_dev_init_gen(9)
• ip6_tnl_dev_init(9)
• ip6_fb_tnl_dev_init(9)
• ip6_tunnel_init(9)
• ip6_tunnel_cleanup(9)

all of them, together, main character energy 💀👑

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ok and that's the whole page bestie, love that for us 💖

so for the sign-off: this one's from the ./net/ipv6 source, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ip6_tnl_create(9). bye bestie, go build a tunnel 🦋💅✨