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. but: some machines that are hosts and have more than one interface are not routers. we have some machines that have multiple interfaces, e.g. private stub networks, wireless interfaces that may at times act as Access Points (i.e. run in HostAP mode). some networks are very simple and have static routing and hence do not require a routing program. so, finally my question is this. Under what conditions are the following programs required? routing software - e.g. route6d or zebra rtadvd rtsold it seems to me that unless something is changing, rtsold and rtadvd are not really useful by the same token though, the same kinda applies to routing programs, so if you are running e.g. route6d, shouldn't you automatically run rtadvd. similarly, if inetd sees router advertisement icmp6 packets, shouldn't it be capable of involking rtsold??? Or something kinda similar? -- Dr Paul van den Bergen Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures caia.swin.edu.au [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM:bulwynkl2002 "And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. They say it is to see how the world was made." Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
