| RTADVD(8) | System Manager's Manual | RTADVD(8) |
rtadvd —
rtadvd |
[-CDdfRs] [-c
configfile] [-M
ifname] [-p
pidfile] interface ... |
rtadvd sends router advertisement packets to the
specified interfaces.
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 at all, 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 2461, 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 to zero on every advertising interface.
The command line options are:
-C-c
configfile-Dstderr. Also when
poll(2) fails, exit instead of
retrying.-d-f-M
ifnamertadvd 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
pidfile-Rrtadvd with a warning message.-sUse 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 and the -C flag is not used,
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.
Upon receipt of signal SIGUSR1,
rtadvd will dump the current internal state into
/var/run/rtadvd.dump.
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 2461
6.2.5).
rtadvd.rtadvd dumps its internal
state.rtadvd utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
rtadvd command first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea
IPv6 protocol stack kit.
rtadvd advertise Router Advertisement messages on an
upstream link to avoid undesirable
icmp6(4) redirect messages.
However, based on 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.
| November 11, 2019 | NetBSD 9.2 |