Installing and Administering Internet Services

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Configuring the Router Discovery Protocol (RDP)
that router. The host also deletes any routes it learned from ICMP
redirects pointing to the invalid addresses. Also, if a Router
Advertisement is not receivedbefore the addresses it lists become invalid
(that is, before its lifetime expires), the routes learned from that router
are deleted by the host.
An example of the routerdiscovery client statement is shown below.
In the example, the client is being enabled on physical interface lan0,
and the default routes are to be given a preference of 50.
routerdiscovery client yes {
preference 50 ;
interface lan0
broadcast ;
} ;
A simple example of an RDP server and two RDP clients is shown in the
picture below.
Figure 8-14 RDP Server and Clients Example
RDP
Server
Router
RDP
Client
RDP
Client
Host A
Host B
lan0