ramond(8)

💖 ramond(8) — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

System Manager's Manual energy, bestie. This is the ramond page. Sit down, grab a boba, we're doing IPv6. 🧋✨

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✨ NAME ✨

ramond — IPv6 Router Advertisement MONitor Daemon. yes the MON is capitalised, it's that serious 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ramond [ -c configfile ] [ -d ]

ramond -h

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this page is just the quick lil rundown of the ramond command. Lowkey it's all you need though. 💅

ramond is a daemon that sits there monitoring IPv6 router advertisement packets. The way it works is: an advert comes in, and then a configurable action happens. That's the whole vibe. 👀

Now for the lore 🍓 — ramond was built to “clear” rogue routes. And by clear I mean: it sends out spoofed zero lifetime adverts at them. Who's out here sending rogue routes? Users running 6to4 gateways on a campus network, that's who. Not naming names. 🙈

The actions are scriptable, so you can make it do whatever. And almost all the available information gets passed to your script through environmental variables — the ENVIRONMENT section below has the full tea. ☕

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, and ngl there are no long options. Here's the whole menu:

• -c configfile — sets the path to the ramond configuration file. Default is /etc/ramond.conf. 📁
• -d — do not daemonize. Stay in the foreground, main character style. ✋
• -h — show a summary of the options. the help me bestie flag 🫶

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💜 FILES 💜

• /etc/ramond.conf — the system-wide configuration file that controls how ramond behaves. Wanna know more? Go read ramond.conf(5), it's got further details. 📖

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🌈 ENVIONMENT 🌈

(yes that's how it's spelled up there, we don't ask questions)

This section spills the whole list of environment variables that ramond sets when it runs a script that you configured. Every single one, no gatekeeping:

• PREFIX — the advertised prefix, or null.
• PREFIX_LEN — the length of the advertised prefix, or null.
• SOURCE_ADDR — the IPv6 source address of the packet.
• SOURCE_MAC — the MAC source address of the packet.
• INTERFACE — the interface which the packet was received on.

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• ramond.conf(5) — go read it, it's the sequel. 📚

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

• James Morse <morse_@users.sourceforge.net> — wrote the ramond software. the actual icon. 🔥
• Nicolas Dandrimont <nicolas.dandrimont@crans.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian system. thank u for ur service 🫡

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright © 2010 Nicolas Dandrimont

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

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

Heads up bestie: on Debian systems, the complete text of the 3-clause BSD license License can be found in /usr/share/doc/ramond/copyright. Go look if you need the fine print, fr fr.

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okay that's the whole page!! 💅✨ It's from the System Manager's Manual, it's ramond(8), and that's the vibe check passed. periodt. 🎀🦋🌸💜