in.ripngd Network Routing Demon for IPv6

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/in.ripngd [-s][-q][-t][-p n][-P][-v][logfile]

Description

The in.ripngd daemon is new in the Solaris 8 release. in.ripngd is the IPv6 equivalent of in.routed(1M). It is invoked at boot time by the S69inet run control script to manage the network routing tables. The routing daemon uses the Routing Information Protocol for IPv6.

In normal operation, in.ripngd listens on the udp(7P) socket port 521 for routing information packets. If the host is an internetwork router, it periodically supplies copies of its routing tables to any directly connected hosts and networks.

Whenin.ripngd is ...

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