Robert Moskowitz wrote: > 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.... Well, what is needed is: route ::/0 { }; And the boxes are now getting out!