Re: RADVD and default IPv6 gateway

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on 7-15-2008 4:08 PM Robert Moskowitz spake the following:
the man page for RADVD says:

radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to router solicitations and sends router advertisements as described in "Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)" (RFC 2461). With these advertise- ments hosts can automatically configure their addresses and some other parameters. They also can choose a default router based on these adver-
      tisements.


But there is nothing I see in man radvd.conf that answers how hosts choose a default router, nor can I find anything else about this.

Anyone know the answer or where to get the information???
I do believe that radvd runs only on the default router, so everyone else just waits for the advertising messages.

I found this;
http://fermiparadox.wordpress.com/2007/02/18/using-radvd/


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