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NAME

slaacd — a stateless address autoconfiguration daemon

SYNOPSIS

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

hostname.if(5), ifconfig(8), rtadvd(8), slaacctl(8)

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>.