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....