“Radvd” stands for “Router Advertisement Daemon”. It can be installed on any Linux system, which acts as a default IPv6 gateway router.

Radvd is configured in a configuration file that is typically located at /etc and called radvd.conf. It includes information about the prefix(es) to be advertised, lifetimes and (optionally) the frequency of router advertisements.

Following is a typical Radvd configuration file:

For more information about configuration options and runtime parameters please refer to the manpage radvd(8).