On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 02:39:13PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Douglas Maus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Also, is having the rtsold daemon running all the time required? > > No. > > > If you have hostname.if with rtsol to set the route at boot, > > do you have to run rtsold? > > No. > > IPv6 routers regularly broadcast advertisements. If you have > net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv set to 1, these advertisements will be > automatically processed by the kernel. You only need to run rtsol > to request a router advertisement right now, so you won't have to > wait ten minutes. In other words, running rtsol once at startup > (from hostname.if) is enough.
Thank you for setting me straight on this. This explains why the man page for rtsold is so much about how to supervise an interface (and sending Router Solicitation messages). Almost nothing about what to do with an Advertisement. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] -- / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
