[radvd-devel-l] Advertising interface is not "autoconfigured"

[Pekka Savola]

On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Venkata Jagana wrote:

I'm not sure why one would want to autoconfigure eth0 in this case?

> Before you run radvd on your 'R' box, turn off or disable the forwarding
> temporarily through
> 
>    echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<all or ethX>/forwarding
> 
> Run radvd and then enable forwarding through
> 
>    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/<all or ethX>/forwarding
> 
> This is one way of enabling autoconfiguration for router interfaces.

Changes in radvd 0.7.1 probably kill this approach (if "all") is used -- 
radvd will not start unless "all" forwarding is enabled.

Having conf/eth0/forwarding=0 is effectively a DoS for the clients for the 
period it's 0, but in simple scenarios this may not be a problem.

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