IRDPD.8
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- .TH IRDPD 8
- .SH NAME
- irdpd - internet router discovery protocol daemon
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B irdpd
- .RB [ -bsd ]
- .RB [ -U
- .IR udp-device ]
- .RB [ -I
- .IR ip-device ]
- .RB [ -o
- .IR priority-offset ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .B Irdpd
- looks for routers. This should be a simple task, but many routers are hard
- to find because they do not implement the router discovery protocol. This
- daemon collects information that routers do send out and makes it available.
- .PP
- At startup
- .B irdpd
- sends out several router solicitation broadcasts. A good router should
- respond to this with a router advertisement.
- .PP
- If a router advertisement arrives then no more solicitations are sent. The
- TCP/IP server has filled its routing table with the info from the
- advertisement, so it now has at least one router. If the advertisement is
- sent by a genuine router (the sender is in the table) then the
- .B irdpd
- daemon goes dormant for the time the advert is valid. Routers send new
- adverts periodically, keeping the daemon silent.
- .PP
- Otherwise
- .B irdpd
- will listen for RIP (Router Information Protocol) packets. These packets
- are sent between routers to exchange routing information.
- .B Irdpd
- uses this information to build a routing table.
- .PP
- Every now and then a router advertisement is sent to the local host to give
- it router information build from the RIP packets.
- .PP
- Lastly, if a router solicitation arrives and there is no router around that
- sends advertisements, then
- .B irdpd
- sends an advertisement to the requestor. Note that this is a direct violation
- of RFC1256, as no host is supposed to sent those adverts. But alas the world
- is not always perfect, and those adverts make booting hosts find routers
- quickly with this help from their brothers. (Of course, they will lose the
- router soon if they don't have an
- .B irdpd
- daemon themselves.)
- .SH OPTIONS
- .TP
- .B -b
- Broadcast advertisements instead of sending them to the local host only.
- This may be used to keep (non-Minix) hosts alive on a net without adverts.
- .TP
- .B -s
- Be silent, do not send advertisements to hosts that ask for them.
- .TP
- .B -d
- Debug mode, tell where info is coming from and where it is sent. Debugging
- can also be turned on at runtime by sending signal
- .B SIGUSR1
- or turned off with
- .BR SIGUSR2 .
- .TP
- .BI -o " priority-offset
- Offset used to make the gateway's preferences collected from RIP packets look
- worse than those found in genuine router adverts. By default
- .BR -1024 .
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .BR set_net_default (8),
- .BR boot (8),
- .BR inetd (8),
- .BR nonamed (8),
- .BR rarpd (8).
- .SH BUGS
- Under standard Minix this daemon can't listen to two both IRDP and RIP
- at the same time, so it starts out with IRDP. It switches over to RIP
- if it can't find a router, or if it threatens to lose its router. It
- does not switch back.
- .PP
- .B Irdpd
- may help a host that should not be helped, i.e. if it doesn't have an
- .B irdpd
- daemon with RIP collecting trickery. It will make System Administrators
- pull out their remaining hair trying to find out why a host can access
- outside networks for a some time after boot, but goes blind afterwards.
- .SH AUTHOR
- Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)