How To Install radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install radvd.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. radvd.x86_64 is A Router Advertisement daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `radvd.x86_64`

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 to install radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radvd.x86_64.

Install radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install radvd.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radvd.x86_64

How To Uninstall radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the radvd.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove radvd.x86_64

radvd.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/radvd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/radvd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/radvd.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/radvd.conf
/usr/sbin/radvd
/usr/sbin/radvdump
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/INTRO.html
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/README
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/TODO
/usr/share/doc/radvd-1.9.2/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
/var/run/radvd

References

radvd.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install radvd.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.