On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Xiaoning He wrote:
> I have some stupid questions regarding the Router Solicitation and
> Router Advertisement implementation for RedHat 7.1. Since I am new to
> Linux programming, it will be very helpful if you can answer my
> questions. Thank you in advance.
>
> 1. In the Red Hat 7.1, where is the code of sending out router
> solicitation and router advertisement? Where is their location?
Sending RS is mainly done in kernel. Reacting to them and sending RA's is
done at a user-space routing advertising daemon, e.g. radvd.
> 2. Is there any deamons in Red Hat 7.1 to handle the RA and RS? I
> downloaded radvd from the web site but it seems it is not a integrated
> part of Red Hat 7.1.
There are RPM's on the site. Radvd is also integrated with RHL72.
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