Re: rtsol

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 21/10/2014 23:26, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> E.g. in my situation I've got a NetBSD instance running on a virtual
> host (Linux KVM),which I can't control and where the host does
> send router advertisements only upon request.  With the previous
> default configuration as well as with the current one, the kernel will
> drop the default route after some timeout.  With the previous
> situation I used a cron job to regularly send router solicitations
> with rtsol and so keep the default route.  What is the replacement
> for rtsol in this case?
> 
> Yes, I'm sure that I can come up with a solution for this (if I find
> enough round tuits), however, apart from this being some unwarranted
> effort on my part, I don't think that we should impose this burden to any
> and all of our users.

In this instance, the dhcpcd example in the rtsold manpage actually has
a use.
By soliciting a RA for testing, the master dhcpcd instance will spot
this and react accordingly, as will the kernel if that's handling RA's.

Roy