Thank you Brian for your answer,
Brian Haley wrote:
So, do you agree that in forwarding mode not all RAs must be
dropped by kernel?
For the moment the drop condition is (net/ipv6ndisc.c#L1095):
if (in6_dev->cnf.forwarding || !in6_dev->cnf.accept_ra) {
Don't you think we should change this?
No. You can install a filter and process them in user-space, like radvd
does.
I think you are right, this a good solution. I'll try this way.
Just for my information.
Do you think this is the way it should be done or just the easiest way
without having to modify the kernel?
What are you trying to do?
I would like a Linux router configuring it's own default route using RA
from the default router.
Regards.
Vincent
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