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NAME

     route6d - RIP6 Routing Daemon


SYNOPSIS

     route6d [-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]


DESCRIPTION

     The route6d is a routing daemon which supports RIP over IPv6.

     Options are:

     -a      Enables aging of the statically defined routes.  With this op-
             tion, any statically defined routes will be removed unless corre-
             sponding updates arrive as if the routes are received at the
             startup of route6d.

     -R routelog
             This option makes the route6d to log the route change
             (add/delete) to the file routelog.

     -A prefix/preflen,if1[,if2...]
             This option is used for aggregating routes.  prefix/preflen spec-
             ifies 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-separat-
             ed 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 message.  This option also instructs
             route6d to run in foreground mode (does not become daemon).

     -D      Enables extensive output of debugging message.  This option also
             instructs route6d to run in foreground mode (does not become
             daemon).

     -h      Disables the split horizon processing.

     -l      By default, route6d will not exchange site local routes for safe-
             ty reasons.  This is because semantics of site local address
             space is rather vague (specification is still in being worked),
             and there is no good way to define site local boundary.  With -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 mul-
             tiple -L options are specified, any routes that match one of the
             options is 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 op-
             tion.  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 speci-
             fied 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 in listen-only mode.  No advertisement is sent.

     -s      Makes route6d to advertise the statically defined routes which
             exist in the kernel routing table when route6d invoked.  An-
             nouncements obey the regular split horizon rule.

     -S      This option is the same as -s option except that no split horizon
             rule does apply.

     -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.

     Internally route6d embeds interface identifier into bit 32 to 63 of link-
     local addresses (fe80::xx and ff02::xx) so they will be visible on inter-
     nal state dump file (/var/run/route6d_dump).

     Routing table manipulation differs from IPv6 implementation to implemen-
     tation.  Currently route6d obeys WIDE Hydrangea/KAME IPv6 kernel, and
     will not be able to run on other platforms.

     Current route6d does not reduce the rate of the triggered updates when
     consecutive updates arrive.

NetBSD 1.5                     January 31, 1997                              2