[Dnsmasq-discuss] Options enable-ra and listen-address don't jibe

Shawn Fisher fishbot at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 17:17:26 GMT 2013


When using a very simple IPv6 config file with 'listen-address' and
'enable-ra', I see no RA activity.  Switching the config to use the
'interface' option solves the issue.
I'm not sure if this is by design, if it is, there is no mention of it
in the man pages.

Config:
listen-address=2001:ed8:83bd::1
dhcp-range=2001:ed8:83bd::100,2001:ed8:83bd::ffff:ffff,slaac,ra-names,64
enable-ra

Here is a small update to the 'enable-ra' option man page description:

diff --git a/man/dnsmasq.8 b/man/dnsmasq.8
index bbed144..579941f 100644
--- a/man/dnsmasq.8
+++ b/man/dnsmasq.8
@@ -1432,7 +1432,7 @@ only a subset of this is needed, and dnsmasq can
handle it, using
 existing DHCP configuration to provide most data. When RA is enabled,
 dnsmasq will advertise a prefix for each dhcp-range, with default
 router and recursive DNS server as the relevant link-local address on
-the machine running dnsmasq. By default, he "managed address" bits are set, and
+the machine running dnsmasq. By default, the "managed address" bits
are set, and
 the "use SLAAC" bit is reset. This can be changed for individual
 subnets with the mode keywords described in
 .B --dhcp-range.



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