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diff --git a/network/radvd/README b/network/radvd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9dc84d056d --- /dev/null +++ b/network/radvd/README @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +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. + +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 + +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: + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd start + fi |