Robert Moskowitz wrote:

Scott Silva wrote:

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on 7-15-2008 4:08 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:

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the man page for RADVD says:

radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to 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 };

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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....

Well, what is needed is:

route ::/0 { };

And the boxes are now getting out!