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The router advertisement daemon (radvd) is run by Linux or BSD systems
-acting as IPv6 routers. It sends Router Advertisement messages,
-specified by RFC 2461, to a local Ethernet LAN periodically and when
-requested by a node sending a Router Solicitation message. These
-messages are required for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration.
+acting as IPv6 routers. It sends Router Advertisement messages, specified
+by RFC 2461, to a local Ethernet LAN periodically and when requested by a
+node sending a Router Solicitation message. These messages are required
+for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration.
-Radvd is dependant upon IPv6 support in the Linux Kernel; this comes
-enabled by default with Slackware 12's 'generic' kernel. To enable
-IPv6 support manually, you must set the following entry in your
-kernel's '.config' file and recompile:
- CONFIG_IPV6=m
+Radvd is dependant upon IPv6 support in the Linux Kernel; this comes enabled
+by default with Slackware 13's generic and huge kernels. To enable IPv6
+support manually, you must set the following entry in your custom kernel's
+.config file and recompile: CONFIG_IPV6=m
-Once the Slackware package is installed, edit /etc/radvd.conf to
-reflect your current IPv6 configuration.
-
-An init script has been provided at /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd.
-To have radvd start at each boot, add the following lines to your
-/etc/rc.d/rc.local file:
- # Start the radvd daemon:
+Once the slackware package is installed, edit /etc/radvd.conf to reflect
+your current IPv6 configuration. An init script has been provided at
+/etc/rc.d/rc.radvd. To have this start upon each boot, add the following
+lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file:
+ ## Start the radvd daemon:
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.radvd start
fi