NAME
slaacd
—
a stateless address autoconfiguration
daemon
SYNOPSIS
slaacd |
[-dv ] [-s
socket] |
DESCRIPTION
slaacd
is a stateless address
autoconfiguration (SLAAC) daemon for clients. It listens for IPv6 router
advertisement messages, for example those sent by
rtadvd(8), on interfaces with the
AUTOCONF6
flag set. slaacd
derives IPv6 addresses and default
routes from received router advertisements and installs them in the kernel.
See hostname.if(5) and
ifconfig(8) on how to enable auto configuration on an interface.
slaacd
monitors network interface states
(interface going up or down, auto configuration enabled or disabled etc.)
and sends router solicitations when necessary.
A running slaacd
can be controlled with
the slaacctl(8) utility.
The options are as follows:
-d
- Do not daemonize. If this option is specified,
slaacd
will run in the foreground and log to stderr. -s
socket- Use an alternate location for the default control socket.
-v
- Produce more verbose output. Multiple
-v
options increase the verbosity.
FILES
- /dev/slaacd.sock
- UNIX-domain socket used for communication with slaacctl(8).
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
T. Narten, E. Nordmark, W. Simpson, and H. Soliman, Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6), RFC 4861, September 2007.
J. Jeong, S. Park, L. Beloeil, and S. Madanapalli, IPv6 Router Advertisement Options for DNS Configuration, RFC 6106, November 2010.
R. Draves and D. Thaler, Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes, RFC 4191, November 2005.
HISTORY
The slaacd
program first appeared in
OpenBSD 6.2.
AUTHORS
The slaacd
program was written by
Florian Obser
<florian@openbsd.org>.