[radvd-devel-l] Concerning AdvRouterAddr

Hugo Santos hsantos at av.it.pt
Mon Jul 31 09:37:39 EDT 2006


Hi Ville,

   Thanks for the reply. Indeed this makes sense; previously i was
 looking in the code and was expecting radvd to fetch one of the
 addresses from the interface.

   Thanks again,

      Hugo

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:10:52PM +0300, Ville Nuorvala wrote:
> Hugo Santos wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> Hi Hugo,
> 
> >    Radvd's webpage states that it supports Mobile IPv6 but i have a
> >  question regarding the support of AdvRouterAddr. RFC 3775 states the
> >  following:
> > 
> >      Router Address (R)
> > 
> > 	1-bit router address flag.  When set, indicates that the Prefix
> > 	field contains a complete IP address assigned to the sending
> > 	router.  The indicated prefix is the first Prefix Length (...)
> > 
> >    However, radvd does not include a complete IP address but instead
> >  only the prefix. This is troublesome if we have for instance two
> >  routers advertising in a single link the same prefix. Is this a feature
> >  or something left to be implemented?
> 
> radvd broadcasts whatever you put into radvd.conf. If you enter the the
> complete 128-bit router address instead of just the prefix you will get
> the kind of RAs you want.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Ville
> 
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