If I am running bird6 sending IPv6 router advertisements, is there a way I can persuade bird (without shutting it down and restarting it) to send unsolicited router advertisements, as per RFC2461 s6.2.4? Can I do this through a birdc complete restart of the ra protocol or similar? Or will that maintain timers? -- Alex Bligh
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 07:53:45PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
If I am running bird6 sending IPv6 router advertisements, is there a way I can persuade bird (without shutting it down and restarting it) to send unsolicited router advertisements, as per RFC2461 s6.2.4?
Unsolicited router advertisements are sent as specified in RFC 4861 6.2.4 (first several advertisements separated by short interval, then based on configurable 'max ra interval'. They are also resent after address changes. There is not a command to explicitly request sending unsolicited router advertisements, but restarting radv protocol does that (and as there is almost no state in radv protocol, there is no problem with that) -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
Ondrej, --On 6 September 2011 21:49:47 +0200 Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> wrote:
There is not a command to explicitly request sending unsolicited router advertisements, but restarting radv protocol does that (and as there is almost no state in radv protocol, there is no problem with that)
Perfect - fortunately I want to restart ALL advertisements :-) -- Alex Bligh
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 06:38:05AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
Ondrej,
There is not a command to explicitly request sending unsolicited router advertisements, but restarting radv protocol does that (and as there is almost no state in radv protocol, there is no problem with that)
Perfect - fortunately I want to restart ALL advertisements :-)
BTW, why to restart that? -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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