On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 08:49:54AM -0700, Charles Musser wrote:
> Understood. At it now stands, processing of RAs is in the kernel, to bring up
> interfaces and add routes. Rtsol acts as the tickler, to solicit them
> promptly, but that's basically it.
In -current, solicitations are sent by the kernel.
It's possible that rtsol(4) will be removed in the future.
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: flor...@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/08/25 08:00:34
Modified files:
sys/net : if.c
sys/netinet6 : in6.c in6_ifattach.c in6_var.h nd6.c nd6.h
nd6_rtr.c
Log message:
Move sending of router solicitations to the kernel; receiving and
processing of router advertisements was already in the kernel.
With this rtsol{,d}(8) is no longer necessary.
The kernel starts sending solicitations with
# ifconfig $IF inet6 autoconf
or
inet6 autoconf
in /etc/hostname.$IF.
input stsp@
much help & OK mpi@
tweaks & OK bluhm@
> One side question: In 5.5 there was as sysctl for enabling the processing of
> RAs, but this seems to have vanished in -current. By default, the system
> processes them. How do you disable acting on RAs if you don't want to do it
> (and is there a reason to do that)?
ifconfig em0 inet6 -autoconf
