The router advertisement daemon (radvd) is run by Linux or BSD systems acting as IPv6 routers. It sends Router Advertisement messages, specified by RFC 2461, to a local Ethernet LAN periodically and when requested by a node sending a Router Solicitation message. These messages are required for IPv6 stateless autoconfiguration. Radvd is dependant upon IPv6 support in the Linux Kernel; this comes enabled by default with Slackware 12's 'generic' kernel. To enable IPv6 support manually, you must set the following entry in your kernel's '.config' file and recompile: CONFIG_IPV6=m Once the Slackware package is installed, edit /etc/radvd.conf to reflect your current IPv6 configuration. An init script has been provided at /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd. To have radvd start at each boot, add the following lines to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file: # Start the radvd daemon: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.radvd start fi