>>>>> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 15:28:29 +1100,
>>>>> paul van den bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I am a bit confused about the role of rtsold and rtadvd.
> here is what I think of as the typical definitions.
> a machine that acts as a router has by definition more than one interface and
> a routing table. It may or may not run a routing program (dynamic routing)
> and may or may not run rtadvd.
> a machine that has a single interface is a host machine and does not run
> routing programs and only has routing table entries for link local addresses
> and the gateway. It will run rtsold if there is a router between it's
> resident network and other networks.
I don't really understand the point of the question, but anyway:
The host needs rtsold to configure the gateway address (by soliciting
router advertisements). The router (i.e., gateway) needs rtadvd to
help the host by sending router advertisement.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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