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+.\" $NetBSD: rtadvd.8,v 1.29 2020/04/21 12:19:44 wiz Exp $
+.\" $KAME: rtadvd.8,v 1.24 2002/05/31 16:16:08 jinmei Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"
+.Dd April 21, 2020
+.Dt RTADVD 8
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm rtadvd
+.Nd router advertisement daemon
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl CDdfs
+.Op Fl c Ar configfile
+.Op Fl p Ar pidfile
+.Ar interface ...
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+sends router advertisement packets to the specified interfaces.
+.Pp
+The program will daemonize itself on invocation.
+It will then send router advertisement packets periodically, as well
+as in response to router solicitation messages sent by end hosts.
+.Pp
+Router advertisements can be configured on a per-interface basis, as
+described in
+.Xr rtadvd.conf 5 .
+.Pp
+If there is no configuration file entry for an interface,
+or if the configuration file does not exist at all,
+.Nm
+sets all the parameters to their default values.
+In particular,
+.Nm
+reads all the interface routes from the routing table and advertises
+them as on-link prefixes.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+also watches the routing table.
+If an interface direct route is
+added on an advertising interface and no static prefixes are
+specified by the configuration file,
+.Nm
+adds the corresponding prefix to its advertising list.
+.Pp
+Similarly, when an interface direct route is deleted,
+.Nm
+will start advertising the prefixes with zero valid and preferred
+lifetimes to help the receiving hosts switch to a new prefix when
+renumbering.
+Note, however, that the zero valid lifetime cannot invalidate the
+autoconfigured addresses at a receiving host immediately.
+According to the specification, the host will retain the address
+for a certain period, which will typically be two hours.
+The zero lifetimes rather intend to make the address deprecated,
+indicating that a new non-deprecated address should be used as the
+source address of a new connection.
+This behavior will last for two hours.
+Then
+.Nm
+will completely remove the prefix from the advertising list,
+and succeeding advertisements will not contain the prefix information.
+.Pp
+Moreover, if the status of an advertising interface changes,
+.Nm
+will start or stop sending router advertisements according
+to the latest status.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fl s
+option may be used to disable this behavior;
+.Nm
+will not watch the routing table and the whole functionality described
+above will be suppressed.
+.Pp
+Basically, hosts MUST NOT send Router Advertisement messages at any
+time (RFC 2461, Section 6.2.3).
+However, it would sometimes be useful to allow hosts to advertise some
+parameters such as prefix information and link MTU.
+Thus,
+.Nm
+can be invoked if router lifetime is explicitly set to zero on every
+advertising interface.
+.Pp
+The command line options are:
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.\"
+.It Fl C
+Don't expire the existing configuration on receipt of SIGHUP.
+This option is only intended to aid the testing of clients that consume
+Router Advertisement messages.
+.It Fl c Ar configfile
+Specify an alternate location,
+.Ar configfile ,
+for the configuration file.
+By default,
+.Pa /etc/rtadvd.conf
+is used.
+.It Fl D
+Instead of printing errors using
+.Xr syslog 3
+send them to
+.Dv stderr .
+Also when
+.Xr poll 2
+fails, exit instead of retrying.
+.It Fl d
+Print debugging information.
+Repeating this option, adds more verbose debugging.
+.It Fl f
+Foreground mode (useful when debugging).
+Log messages will be dumped to stderr when this option is specified.
+.\".It Fl m
+.\"Enables mobile IPv6 support.
+.\"This changes the content of router advertisement option, as well as
+.\"permitted configuration directives.
+.It Fl p Ar pidfile
+Specify an alternate location,
+.Ar pidfile ,
+for the PID file.
+By default,
+.Pa /var/run/rtadvd.pid
+is used.
+.It Fl s
+Do not add or delete prefixes dynamically.
+Only statically configured prefixes, if any, will be advertised.
+.El
+.Pp
+Use
+.Dv SIGHUP
+to reload the configuration file
+.Pa /etc/rtadvd.conf .
+If an invalid parameter is found in the configuration file upon the reload, the
+entry will be ignored and the old configuration will be used.
+When parameters in an existing entry are updated and the
+.Fl C
+flag is not used,
+.Nm
+will send Router Advertisement messages with the old configuration but zero
+router lifetime to the interface first, and then start to send a new message.
+.Pp
+Upon receipt of signal
+.Dv SIGUSR1 ,
+.Nm
+will dump the current internal state into
+.Pa /var/run/rtadvd.dump .
+.Pp
+Use
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to kill
+.Nm
+gracefully.
+In this case,
+.Nm
+will transmit router advertisement with router lifetime 0
+to all the interfaces
+.Pq in accordance with RFC 2461 6.2.5 .
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /var/run/rtadvd.dumpXX -compact
+.It Pa /etc/rtadvd.conf
+The default configuration file.
+.It Pa /var/run/rtadvd.pid
+Contains the PID of the currently running
+.Nm .
+.It Pa /var/run/rtadvd.dump
+The file in which
+.Nm
+dumps its internal state.
+.El
+.Sh EXIT STATUS
+.Ex -std rtadvd
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr rtadvd.conf 5 ,
+.Xr rtsol 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
+.Sh BUGS
+There used to be some text that recommended users not to let
+.Nm
+advertise Router Advertisement messages on an upstream link to avoid
+undesirable
+.Xr icmp6 4
+redirect messages.
+However, based on later discussion in the IETF IPng working group,
+all routers should rather advertise the messages regardless of
+the network topology, in order to ensure reachability.