How To Install radvd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radvd on CentOS 8.
What is radvd
radvd is the router advertisement daemon for IPv6. It listens to router solicitations and sends router advertisements as described in “Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)” (RFC 2461). With these advertisements hosts can automatically configure their addresses and some other parameters. They also can choose a default router based on these advertisements. Install radvd if you are setting up IPv6 network and/or Mobile IPv6 services.
We can use yum or dnf to install radvd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radvd.
Install radvd on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install radvd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install radvd
Install radvd on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install radvd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install radvd
How To Uninstall radvd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the radvd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove radvd
radvd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/radvd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/radvd
/run/radvd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d
/usr/lib/.build-id/4d/fa85444bcb9b1463c589acdb4f5e80572d0703
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/3a8aca526a6ab010930c5b3f8d406ce0d0c679
/usr/lib/systemd/system/radvd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/radvd.conf
/usr/sbin/radvd
/usr/sbin/radvdump
/usr/share/doc/radvd
/usr/share/doc/radvd/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/radvd/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/radvd/INTRO.html
/usr/share/doc/radvd/README
/usr/share/doc/radvd/TODO
/usr/share/doc/radvd/radvd.conf.example
/usr/share/man/man5/radvd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/radvd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/radvdump.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radvd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.