Re: rtadvd(8) and deprecated prefixes

2007-02-06 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Jinmei-san, Thank you for the response. What I wonder is how one would define the "typical, default" case. Although RFC 2461/2462 does not say much about it, I am having a hard time seeing in which case it would be beneficial to advertise deprecated prefixes as preferred by default. On the other

Re: rtadvd(8) and deprecated prefixes

2007-02-05 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:56:49 -0800, > "Eugene M. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Note that the two automatically configured addresses on em0 are still > preferred, while the prefix 2001:470:1f01:3222::/64 is deprecated on the > router. > I believe rtadvd(8) should advertise deprecated

rtadvd(8) and deprecated prefixes

2007-02-05 Thread Eugene M. Kim
Greetings, Unless disabled with -s flag, rtadvd(8) automatically picks up on-link prefixes from the routing table and includes them in RA messages. In doing so, rtadvd does not seem to distinguish preferred prefixes (preferred lifetime > 0) from distinguished ones (pltime = 0), but simply adverti