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ramond(8) System Manager's Manual ramond(8)

NAME

ramond - IPv6 Router Advertisement MONitor Daemon

SYNOPSIS

ramond [ -c configfile ] [ -d ]

ramond -h

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the ramond command.

ramond is a daemon program monitoring IPv6 router advertisement packets. When an advert is reveived, a configurable action occurs.

ramond was designed to “clear” (by sending spoofed zero lifetime adverts) rogue routes sent by users running 6to4 gateways on a campus network. Actions are scriptable. Almost all the available information is passed to a script via environmental variables (see the ENVIRONMENT section for details).

OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, without long options. A summary of options is included below.

Sets the path to the ramond configuration file. Default is /etc/ramond.conf
Do not daemonize.
Show summary of options.

FILES

/etc/ramond.conf
The system-wide configuration file to control the behaviour of ramond. See ramond.conf(5) for further details.

ENVIONMENT

This section details the environment variables set by ramond when it runs a user-configured script.

The advertised prefix, or null
The length of the advertised prefix, or null
The IPv6 source address of the packet
The MAC source address of the packet
The interface which the packet was received on

SEE ALSO

ramond.conf(5)

AUTHORS

Wrote the ramond software.
Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 Nicolas Dandrimont

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the usual 3-clause BSD license.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the 3-clause BSD license License can be found in /usr/share/doc/ramond/copyright.