ip6_tunnel_init(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for ip6_tunnel_init(9) 🎀. Its whole vibe is: register protocol and reserve needed resources. That’s it, that’s the job — no cap. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ip6_tunnel_init (void );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• void — no arguments, literally none. Zero. Nada. The function said “I need nothing from you” and honestly? iconic. 💅

🌸 RETURN 🌸

• 0 on success 🎉 — that’s the documented win condition, bestie.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The Kernel file is ./net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c, and the whole squad of related calls is right here — go off, bestie 👑:

• ip6_tnl_lookup(9)
• ip6_tnl_bucket(9)
• ip6_tnl_link(9)
• ip6_tnl_unlink(9)
• ip6_tnl_create(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_cleanup(9)

mwah 💋 — signed off from the ./net/ipv6 source/version, stamped October 2026. xoxo, your kernel bestie 💜