[radvd-devel-l] default route problems

[Pekka Savola]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Peter L=F6fkvist wrote:
> I'm trying to set a MIPv6 home agent. The home agent is NOT to be the
> gateway of the network by just a node like all else. My problem is when=
 I start
> radvd, the default route(which is pointing to the correct GW) on the ho=
me
> agent disappears. I've set conf/all/forwarding =3D1.

This is likely a Linux issue.

Try configuring the default route on the HA manually.  Forwarding is not
really compatible with autoconfigured addresses.

> My /etc/radvd.conf is:
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> interface eth0
> {
> 	AdvSendAdvert on;
> 	MinRtrAdvInterval 3;
> 	MaxRtrAdvInterval 10;
> # MIPv6
> 	AdvHomeAgentFlag on;
> 	AdvHomeAgentInfo on;
> 	AdvDefaultLifetime 3600;
> 	HomeAgentLifetime 3600;
> 	HomeAgentPreference 100;
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> 	prefix 3ffe:4008:2:3:2c0:a8ff:fef5:fa9a/64
> 	{
> 		AdvOnLink on;
> 		AdvAutonomous off;
> 		AdvRouterAddr on;
> 	};
> };
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> I tried to set the AdvDefaultLifetime to "0" but then radvd would not
> start.
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> Is my conf file wrong or it something else? Help much appreciated.
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> /Peter
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