Scott Silva wrote:
on 7-15-2008 4:08 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
the man page for RADVD says:
radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listensto router solicitations and sends router advertisements as described in "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)" (RFC 2461). With these advertise- ments hosts can automatically configure their addresses and some other parameters. They also can choose a default router based on these adver- tisements.
But there is nothing I see in man radvd.conf that answers how hosts choose a default router, nor can I find anything else about this.
Anyone know the answer or where to get the information???
I do believe that radvd runs only on the default router, so everyone else just waits for the advertising messages.
I found this; http://fermiparadox.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/using-radvd/
Thanks for this URL. But it does not contribute anything on routing.
On further reading of man radvd.conf I find:
interface name { list of interface specific options list of prefix definitions list of route definitions };
...
Route definitions are of the form:
route prefix/length { list of route specific options };
But there are no examples of 'list of route definitions.
I am guessing that if I want a global default route through the radvd box using the defaults for the options I add the line:
route ::/0;
to the interfaces.
Here goes....