RTADVCTL(8)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so welcome to rtadvctl — it's the control program for the rtadvd(8) daemon, and it's honestly giving main character energy for a utility that just talks to a router advertisement daemon. this is the rtadvctl page from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and yes bestie, we're gonna go through every single bit of it together 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rtadvctl [-v] subcommand [interface ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so rtadvctl is a utility that communicates with the rtadvd(8) daemon and displays information about Router Advertisement messages being sent on each interface. that's the whole vibe: it's the little bestie that chats with the daemon and reports back what's going on with your RAs 💖

This utility provides several options and subcommands. The options are as follows:

• -v — increase verbosity level, bestie. When specified once, rtadvctl shows additional information about prefixes, RDNSS, and DNSSL options. When given twice, it additionally shows information about inactive interfaces and some statistics. so like, one -v is a little extra, two -v is a lot extra 👑

The subcommands are as follows:

🎀 reload [interfaces...]

Specifies to reload the configuration file. If one or more interfaces are specified, configuration entries for the interfaces will be reloaded selectively — so it's like a targeted glow-up for just those interfaces, not the whole file, iykyk.

🧚 enable interfaces...

Specifies to mark the interface as enabled and to tries to reload the configuration entry. This subcommand is useful for dynamically-added interfaces — iconic for hot-plugging situations fr fr.

The rtadvd(8) daemon marks an interface as enabled if the interface exists and the configuration file has a valid entry for it when it is invoked.

🌈 disable interfaces...

Specifies to mark the interface as disabled. that's it, that's the whole thing — no notes 💀

🔥 shutdown

Makes the rtadvd(8) daemon shut down. Note that the rtadvd(8) daemon will send several RAs with zero lifetime to invalidate the old information on each interface. It will take at most nine seconds. so like, it's not instant, bestie — it's a graceful exit with a little cleanup era, and it'll take at most nine seconds ⭐

💜 show [interfaces...]

Displays information about the Router Advertisement messages being sent on each interface. this is the main character subcommand if we're being honest 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• rtadvd.conf(5)
• rtadvd(8)

🌸 HISTORY 🌸

The rtadvctl command first appeared in FreeBSD 9.0. a true icon of its time, no cap.

💖 AUTHORS 💖

rtadvctl was written by Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>. we stan an author who ships 🙈

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and that's a wrap, bestie! this little page is from Debian, dated July 16, 2011 — so like, it's been serving up router advertisement control realness since before some of us could even read. periodt 🎀✨