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26.\" $FreeBSD$
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28.Dd July 16, 2011
29.Dt RTADVCTL 8
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm rtadvctl
33.Nd control program for
34.Xr rtadvd 8
35daemon
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl v
39.Ar subcommand
40.Op Ar interface ...
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42.Nm
43is a utility that communicates with
44.Xr rtadvd 8
45daemon and displays information about Router Advertisement messages being
46sent on each interface.
47.Pp
48This utility provides several options and subcommands.
49The options are as follows:
50.Bl -tag -width indent
51.\"
52.It Fl v
53Increase verbosity level.
54When specified once, the
55.Nm
56utility shows additional information about prefixes, RDNSS, and DNSSL
57options.
58When given twice, it additionally shows information about
59inactive interfaces and some statistics.
60.El
61.Pp
62The subcommands are as follows:
63.Bl -tag -width indent
64.\"
65.It reload Op interfaces...
66Specifies to reload the configuration file.  If one or more
67.Ar interface
68is specified, configuration entries for the interfaces will be reloaded
69selectively.
70.It enable interfaces...
71Specifies to mark the interface as enable and to try to reload the
72configuration entry.
73This subcommand is useful for dynamically-added interfaces.
74.Pp
75The
76.Xr rtadvd 8
77daemon marks an interface as enable if the interface exists and the
78configuration file has a valid entry for that when it is invoked.
79.It disable interfaces...
80Specifies to mark the interface as disable.
81.It shutdown
82Makes the
83.Xr rtadvd 8
84daemon shut down.
85Note that the
86.Xr rtadvd 8
87daemon will send several RAs with zero lifetime to invalidate the old
88information on each interface.
89It will take at most nine seconds.
90.It show Op interfaces...
91Displays information on Router Advertisement messages being sent
92on each interface.
93.El
94.Sh SEE ALSO
95.Xr rtadvd.conf 5 ,
96.Xr rtadvd 8
97.Sh HISTORY
98The
99.Nm
100command first appeared in
101.Fx 9.0 .
102.Sh AUTHORS
103.Nm
104was written by
105.An Hiroki Sato Aq Mt hrs@FreeBSD.org .
106