Router Advertisement Daemon
This is NOT an original piece of work, just a snap of radvd
The Router Advertisement Daemon (radvd) is an open-source software product that implements link-local advertisements of IPv6 router addresses and IPv6 routing prefixes using the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) as specified in RFC 2461.
This product includes software developed by the authors which are mentioned at the start of the source files and other contributors.
Authors of radvd
First use
- Grant firewall-control that may not be automatically granted
sudo snap connect radvd-gael:firewall-control
sudo vi /var/snap/radvd-gael/current/radvd.conf
sudo systemctl restart snap.radvd-gael.radvd.service
sudo snap logs radvd-gael.radvd
sudo tcpdump -n -i <<YOUR_INTERFACE>> icmp6
2024-10-31
- radvd-gael will now use core24 as most users are on Ubuntu 24.04
2024-03-06
- radvd-gael version 2.20-rc.1 promoted to stable after 4 months of edge testing
2023-07-26
- radvd-gael will now use core22 as most users are on Ubuntu 22.04
2022-10-03
- Improvements, up to git commit c8a11fd (2022-09-08)
- Fix case of AdvValidLifetime option
2022-07-10
- Improvements, up to git commit a646066 (2022-07-08)
- Add pref64 support (RFC8781)
2022-06-30
- Improvements, up to git commit b0cb5a2 (2022-06-30)
- Change RDNSS and DNSSL lifetime default values
2022-06-11
- Improvements, up to git commit e1f9dbc (2022-06-11)
- Add IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP to clean up resources when reload or restart
2022-05-31
- Improvements, up to git commit 16e1139 (2022-03-20)
2021-03-22
- First release of radvd-gael v2.19 on amd64, armhf & arm64