DragonFly On-Line Manual Pages
RTADVD(8) DragonFly System Manager's Manual RTADVD(8)
NAME
rtadvd -- router advertisement daemon
SYNOPSIS
rtadvd [-dDfRs] [-c configfile] [-C ctlsock] [-M ifname] [-p pidfile]
[interface ...]
DESCRIPTION
rtadvd sends router advertisement packets to the specified interfaces.
If no interfaces are specified, rtadvd will still run, but will not
advertise any routes until interfaces are added using rtadvctl(8).
The program will daemonize itself on invocation. It will then send
router advertisement packets periodically, as well as in response to
router solicitation messages sent by end hosts.
Router advertisements can be configured on a per-interface basis, as
described in rtadvd.conf(5).
If there is no configuration file entry for an interface, or if the
configuration file does not exist altogether, rtadvd sets all the
parameters to their default values. In particular, rtadvd reads all the
interface routes from the routing table and advertises them as on-link
prefixes.
rtadvd also watches the routing table. If an interface direct route is
added on an advertising interface and no static prefixes are specified by
the configuration file, rtadvd adds the corresponding prefix to its
advertising list.
Similarly, when an interface direct route is deleted, rtadvd will start
advertising the prefixes with zero valid and preferred lifetimes to help
the receiving hosts switch to a new prefix when renumbering. Note,
however, that the zero valid lifetime cannot invalidate the
autoconfigured addresses at a receiving host immediately. According to
the specification, the host will retain the address for a certain period,
which will typically be two hours. The zero lifetimes rather intend to
make the address deprecated, indicating that a new non-deprecated address
should be used as the source address of a new connection. This behavior
will last for two hours. Then rtadvd will completely remove the prefix
from the advertising list, and succeeding advertisements will not contain
the prefix information.
Moreover, if the status of an advertising interface changes, rtadvd will
start or stop sending router advertisements according to the latest
status.
The -s option may be used to disable this behavior; rtadvd will not watch
the routing table and the whole functionality described above will be
suppressed.
Basically, hosts MUST NOT send Router Advertisement messages at any time
(RFC 4861, Section 6.2.3). However, it would sometimes be useful to
allow hosts to advertise some parameters such as prefix information and
link MTU. Thus, rtadvd can be invoked if router lifetime is explicitly
set zero on every advertising interface.
The command line options are:
-c Specify an alternate location, configfile, for the configuration
file. By default, /etc/rtadvd.conf is used.
-C Specify an alternate location for the control socket used by
rtadvctl(8). The default is /var/run/rtadvd.sock.
-d Print debugging information.
-D Even more debugging information is printed.
-f Foreground mode (useful when debugging). Log messages will be
dumped to stderr when this option is specified.
-M Specify an interface to join the all-routers site-local multicast
group. By default, rtadvd tries to join the first advertising
interface appearing on the command line. This option has meaning
only with the -R option, which enables routing renumbering
protocol support.
-p Specify an alternative file in which to store the process ID.
The default is /var/run/rtadvd.pid.
-R Accept router renumbering requests. This option is currently
disabled, and is ignored by rtadvd with a warning message.
-s Do not add or delete prefixes dynamically. Only statically
configured prefixes, if any, will be advertised.
Use SIGHUP to reload the configuration file /etc/rtadvd.conf. If an
invalid parameter is found in the configuration file upon the reload, the
entry will be ignored and the old configuration will be used. When
parameters in an existing entry are updated, rtadvd will send Router
Advertisement messages with the old configuration but zero router
lifetime to the interface first, and then start to send a new message.
Use SIGTERM to kill rtadvd gracefully. In this case, rtadvd will
transmit router advertisement with router lifetime 0 to all the
interfaces (in accordance with RFC 4861 6.2.5).
FILES
/etc/rtadvd.conf The default configuration file.
/var/run/rtadvd.pid The default process ID file.
EXIT STATUS
The rtadvd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
rtadvd.conf(5), rtadvctl(8), rtsol(8)
Thomas Narten, Erik Nordmark, W. A. Simpson, and Hesham Soliman, Neighbor
Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), RFC 4861.
Thomas Narten, Erik Nordmark, and W. A. Simpson, Neighbor Discovery for
IP version 6 (IPv6), RFC 2461 (obsoleted by RFC 4861).
Richard Draves, Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes,
draft-ietf-ipngwg-router-selection-xx.txt.
J. Jeong, S. Park, L. Beloeil, and S. Madanapalli, IPv6 Router
Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration, RFC 6106.
HISTORY
The rtadvd command first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol
stack kit.
BUGS
There used to be some text that recommended users not to let rtadvd
advertise Router Advertisement messages on an upstream link to avoid
undesirable icmp6(4) redirect messages. However, based on the later
discussion in the IETF ipng working group, all routers should rather
advertise the messages regardless of the network topology, in order to
ensure reachability.
DragonFly 5.1 April 21, 2018 DragonFly 5.1