ROUTE6D(1M)ROUTE6D(1M)NAMEroute6d - IPv6 RIP Routing Daemon
SYNOPSISroute6d [-adDhlqsS] [-R routelog] [-A prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]]
[-L prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]] [-N if1[,if2...]]
[-O prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]] [-T if1[,if2...]] [-t tag]
DESCRIPTIONroute6d is a routing daemon which supports RIP over IPv6.
OPTIONS-a Enables aging of the statically defined routes. With this
option, any statically defined routes will be removed unless
corresponding updates arrive as if the routes are received at
the startup of route6d.
-R routelog This option makes route6d log the route change (add/delete)
to the file routelog.
-A prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]
This option is used for aggregating routes. prefix/preflen
specifies the prefix and the prefix length of the aggregated
route. When advertising routes, route6d filters specific
routes covered by the aggregate, and advertises the
aggregated route prefix/preflen, to the interfaces specified
in the comma-separated interface list, if1[,if2...]. route6d
creates a static route to prefix/preflen with RTF_REJECT
flag, into the kernel routing table.
-d Enables output of debugging messages. This option also
instructs route6d to run in foreground mode (does not become
a daemon).
-D Enables extensive output of debugging messages. This option
also instructs route6d to run in foreground mode (does not
become a daemon).
-h Disables the split horizon processing.
-l By default, route6d will not exchange site local routes for
safety reasons. This is because the semantics of site local
address space is rather vague (the specification is still
being worked on), and there is no good way to define the site
local boundary. With the -l option, route6d will exchange
site local routes as well. It must not be used on site
boundary routers, since -l option assumes that all interfaces
are in the same site.
-L prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]
Filter incoming routes from interfaces if1,[if2...]. route6d
will accept incoming routes that are in prefix/preflen. If
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multiple -L options are specified, any routes that match one
of the options are accepted. ::/0 is treated specially as
default route, not ``any route that has longer prefix length
than, or equal to 0''. If you would like to accept any
route, specify no -L option. For example, with ``-L
3ffe::/16,if1 -L ::/0,if1'' route6d will accept default route
and routes in 6bone test address, but no others.
-N if1[,if2...]
Do not listen to, or advertise, route from/to interfaces
specified by if1,[if2...].
-O prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]
Restrict route advertisement toward interfaces specified by
if1,[if2...]. With this option route6d will only advertise
routes that matches prefix/preflen.
-q Makes route6d go into listen-only mode. No advertisement is
sent.
-s Makes route6d advertise the statically defined routes which
exist in the kernel routing table when route6d invoked.
Announcements obey the regular split horizon rule.
-S This option is the same as -s option except that no split
horizon rule applies.
-T if1[,if2...]
Advertise only default route toward if1,[if2...].
-t tag Attach route tag "tag" to originated route entries. tag can
be decimal, octal prefixed by 0, or hexadecimal prefixed by
0x.
Upon receipt of signal SIGINT or SIGUSR1, route6d will dump the current
internal state into /var/run/route6d_dump.
FILES
/var/run/route6d_dump dumps internal state on SIGINT or SIGUSR1
SEE ALSO
G. Malkin, and R. Minnear, RIPng for IPv6, RFC2080, January 1997.
NOTE
Route6d uses IPv6 advanced API, defined in RFC2292, for communicating
with peers using link-local addresses.
Current route6d does not reduce the rate of the triggered updates when
consecutive updates arrive.
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