[CentOS] Re: RADVD and default IPv6 gateway
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Jul 15 23:52:11 UTC 2008
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 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
};
...
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....
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