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RTADVD.CONF(5)		    BSD File Formats Manual		RTADVD.CONF(5)

NAME
     rtadvd.conf — config file for router advertisement daemon

DESCRIPTION
     This file describes how the router advertisement packets must be con‐
     structed for each of the interfaces.

     As described in rtadvd(8), you do not have to set this configuration file
     up at all, unless you need some special configurations.  You may even
     omit the file as a whole.	In such cases, the rtadvd daemon will automat‐
     ically configure itself using default values specified in the specifica‐
     tion.

     It obeys the famous termcap(5) file format.  Each line in the file
     describes a network interface.  Fields are separated by a colon (‘:’),
     and each field contains one capability description.  Lines may be con‐
     catenated by the ‘\’ character.  The comment marker is the ‘#’ character.

CAPABILITIES
     Capabilities describe the value to be filled into ICMPv6 router adver‐
     tisement messages and to control rtadvd(8) behavior.  Therefore, you are
     encouraged to read IETF neighbor discovery documents if you would like to
     modify the sample configuration file.

     Note that almost all items have default values.  If you omit an item, the
     default value of the item will be used.

     There are two items which control the interval of sending router adver‐
     tisements.	 These items can be omitted, then rtadvd will use the default
     values.

     maxinterval
	     (num) The maximum time allowed between sending unsolicited multi‐
	     cast router advertisements (unit: seconds).  The default value is
	     600.  Its value must be no less than 4 seconds and no greater
	     than 1800 seconds.

     mininterval
	     (num) The minimum time allowed between sending unsolicited multi‐
	     cast router advertisements (unit: seconds).  The default value is
	     the one third of value of maxinterval.  Its value must be no less
	     than 3 seconds and no greater than .75 * the value of
	     maxinterval.

     The following items are for ICMPv6 router advertisement message header.
     These items can be omitted, then rtadvd will use the default values.

     chlim   (num) The value for Cur Hop Limit field.  The default value is
	     64.

     raflags
	     (str or num) A 8-bit flags field in router advertisement message
	     header.  This field can be specified either as a case-sensitive
	     string or as an integer.  A string consists of characters each of
	     which corresponds to a particular flag bit(s).  An integer should
	     be the logical OR of all enabled bits.  Bit 7 ('m' or 0x80) means
	     Managed address configuration flag bit, and Bit 6 ('o' or 0x40)
	     means Other stateful configuration flag bit.  Bit 4 (0x10) and
	     Bit 3 (0x08) are used to encode router preference.	 Bits 01 (or
	     'h') means high, 00 means medium, and 11 (or 'l') means low.
	     Bits 10 is reserved, and must not be specified.  There is no
	     character to specify the medium preference explicitly.  The
	     default value of the entire flag is 0 (or a null string,) which
	     means no additional configuration methods, and the medium router
	     preference.

     rltime  (num) Router lifetime field (unit: seconds).  The value must be
	     either zero or between the value of maxinterval and 9000.	When
	     rtadvd runs on a host, this value must explicitly set 0 on all
	     the advertising interfaces as described in rtadvd(8).  The
	     default value is 1800.

     rtime   (num) Reachable time field (unit: milliseconds).  The default
	     value is 0, which means unspecified by this router.

     retrans
	     (num) Retrans Timer field (unit: milliseconds).  The default
	     value is 0, which means unspecified by this router.

     The following items are for ICMPv6 prefix information option, which will
     be attached to router advertisement header.  These items can be omitted,
     then rtadvd will automatically get appropriate prefixes from the kernel's
     routing table, and advertise the prefixes with the default parameters.
     Keywords other than clockskew can be augmented with a number, like
     “prefix2”, to specify multiple prefixes.

     clockskew
	     (num) Time skew to adjust link propagation delays and clock skews
	     between routers on the link (unit: seconds).  This value is used
	     in consistency check for locally-configured and advertised prefix
	     lifetimes, and has its meaning when the local router configures a
	     prefix on the link with a lifetime that decrements in real time.
	     If the value is 0, it means the consistency check will be skipped
	     for such prefixes.	 The default value is 0.

     prefixlen
	     (num) Prefix length field.	 The default value is 64.

     pinfoflags
	     (str or num) A 8-bit flags field in prefix information option.
	     This field can be specified either as a case-sensitive string or
	     as an integer.  A string consists of characters each of which
	     corresponds to a particular flag bit(s).  An integer should be
	     the logical OR of all enabled bits.  Bit 7 ('l' or 0x80) means
	     On-link flag bit, and Bit 6 ('a' or 0x40) means Autonomous
	     address-configuration flag bit.  The default value is "la" or
	     0xc0, i.e., both bits are set.

     addr    (str) The address filled into Prefix field.  Since “:” is used
	     for termcap(5) file format as well as IPv6 numeric address, the
	     field MUST be quoted by doublequote character.

     vltime  (num) Valid lifetime field (unit: seconds).  The default value is
	     2592000 (30 days).

     vltimedecr
	     (bool) This item means the advertised valid lifetime will decre‐
	     ment in real time, which is disabled by default.

     pltime  (num) Preferred lifetime field (unit: seconds).  The default
	     value is 604800 (7 days).

     pltimedecr
	     (bool) This item means the advertised preferred lifetime will
	     decrement in real time, which is disabled by default.

     The following item is for ICMPv6 MTU option, which will be attached to
     router advertisement header.  This item can be omitted, then rtadvd will
     use the default value.

     mtu     (num or str) MTU (maximum transmission unit) field.  If 0 is
	     specified, it means that the option will not be included.	The
	     default value is 0.  If the special string “auto” is specified
	     for this item, MTU option will be included and its value will be
	     set to the interface MTU automatically.

     The following item controls ICMPv6 source link-layer address option,
     which will be attached to router advertisement header.  As noted above,
     you can just omit the item, then rtadvd will use the default value.

     nolladdr
	     (bool) By default (if nolladdr is not specified), rtadvd(8) will
	     try to get link-layer address for the interface from the kernel,
	     and attach that in source link-layer address option.  If this
	     capability exists, rtadvd(8) will not attach source link-layer
	     address option to router advertisement packets.

     The following item controls ICMPv6 home agent information option, which
     was defined with mobile IPv6 support.  It will be attached to router
     advertisement header just like other options do.

     hapref  (num) Specifies home agent preference.  If set to non-zero,
	     hatime must be present as well.

     hatime  (num) Specifies home agent lifetime.

     When mobile IPv6 support is turned on for rtadvd(8), advertisement inter‐
     val option will be attached to router advertisement packet, by configur‐
     ing maxinterval explicitly.

     The following items are for ICMPv6 route information option, which will
     be attached to router advertisement header.  These items are optional.
     Each items can be augmented with number, like “rtplen2”, to specify mul‐
     tiple routes.

     rtprefix
	     (str) The prefix filled into the Prefix field of route informa‐
	     tion option.  Since “:” is used for termcap(5) file format as
	     well as IPv6 numeric address, the field MUST be quoted by double‐
	     quote character.

     rtplen  (num) Prefix length field in route information option.  The
	     default value is 64.

     rtflags
	     (str or num) A 8-bit flags field in route information option.
	     Currently only the preference values are defined.	The notation
	     is same as that of the raflags field.  Bit 4 (0x10) and Bit 3
	     (0x08) are used to encode the route preference for the route.
	     The default value is 0x00, i.e., medium preference.

     rtltime
	     (num) route lifetime field in route information option.  (unit:
	     seconds).	Since the specification does not define the default
	     value of this item, the value for this item should be specified
	     by hand.  However, rtadvd allows this item to be unspecified, and
	     uses the router lifetime as the default value in such a case,
	     just for compatibility with an old version of the program.

     In the above list, each keyword beginning with “rt” could be replaced
     with the one beginning with “rtr” for backward compatibility reason.  For
     example, rtrplen is accepted instead of rtplen.  However, keywords that
     start with “rtr” have basically been obsoleted, and should not be used
     any more.

     You can also refer one line from another by using tc capability.  See
     termcap(5) for details on the capability.

EXAMPLES
     As presented above, all of the advertised parameters have default values
     defined in specifications, and hence you usually do not have to set them
     by hand, unless you need special non-default values.  It can cause inter‐
     operability problem if you use an ill-configured parameter.

     To override a configuration parameter, you can specify the parameter
     alone.  With the following configuration, rtadvd(8) overrides the router
     lifetime parameter for the ne0 interface.

     ne0:\
	     :rltime#0:

     The following example manually configures prefixes advertised from the
     ef0 interface.  The configuration must be used with the -s option to
     rtadvd(8).

     ef0:\
	     :addr="3ffe:501:ffff:1000::":prefixlen#64:

     The following example presents the default values in an explicit manner.
     The configuration is provided just for reference purposes; YOU DO NOT
     NEED TO HAVE IT AT ALL.

     default:\
	     :chlim#64:raflags#0:rltime#1800:rtime#0:retrans#0:\
	     :pinfoflags="la":vltime#2592000:pltime#604800:mtu#0:
     ef0:\
	     :addr="3ffe:501:ffff:1000::":prefixlen#64:tc=default:

SEE ALSO
     termcap(5), rtadvd(8), rtsol(8)

     Thomas Narten, Erik Nordmark, and W. A. Simpson, Neighbor Discovery for
     IP version 6 (IPv6), RFC 2461.

     Richard Draves, Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes,
     draft-ietf-ipngwg-router-selection-xx.txt.

HISTORY
     The rtadvd(8) and the configuration file rtadvd.conf first appeared in
     WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.

BSD				 May 17, 1998				   BSD
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