[radvd-devel-l] Replies to Router Solicitation

[Reuben Hawkins]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Panagiotis Georgopoulos <
panos at comp.lancs.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello all,
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>                 I am running radvd v. 1.7 and I am wondering about its
> replies to Router Solicitation messages. Am I right in thinking that radvd
> should respond to any Router Solicitation messages that it sees? Does it
> respond instantaneously or with a certain delay?
>
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>                 Thanks a lot in advance,
>
>                 Panos
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Hi Panos,

RADVD does not send a response to every solicitation and there is a random
delay (between 0 and 1/2 seconds I think).  The random delay is called for
in RFC 2461 (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2461.html).  It's not really that
important, but it cuts down on the number of broadcast advertisements
needed.

RADVD should NOT respond to every solicitation it sees (we don't want to
flood the network with useless advertisements).  However, if you're finding
you don't get an address fast enough, then you may have a bug or
configuration issue.

Thanks,
Reuben
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