How to generate IPv6 RA without any prefixes?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

Hi,

> In IPv6 it should be possible to generate a Router Advertisement which
> contains no prefix options (the idea being that I want the host to
> populate its default router list but nothing else). However, I cannot
> seem to get rtadvd to do this.
>
> If I start rtadvd with no /etc/rtadvd.conf file, it sends RAs with a
> prefix option corresponding to the IPv6 address of the interface. In
> the /etc/rtadvd.conf I can explicitly specify prefixes ("addr"), but
> I can't find any way to specify that no prefix options should be sent.
>
> Any suggestions?

What if you start rtadvd with -s and have a basically empty (default)
config file entry?

I haven't checked but theat would be my best guess?

/bz

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