<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Panagiotis Georgopoulos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:panos@comp.lancs.ac.uk">panos@comp.lancs.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> 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? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> Thanks a lot in advance,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> Panos</p></div></div><br>--<br>
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<a href="http://lists.litech.org/listinfo/radvd-devel-l" target="_blank">http://lists.litech.org/listinfo/radvd-devel-l</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Hi Panos,<br><br>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 (<a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2461.html">http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2461.html</a>). It's not really that important, but it cuts down on the number of broadcast advertisements needed.<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Thanks,<br>Reuben<br>