The RADVD deamon in Raspberry pool is version 1.8.5 (up to Raspberry 2015-02-16).
root@raspberrypi:~/radvd# apt-cache policy radvd
radvd:
Installed: 1:1.8.5-1
Candidate: 1:1.8.5-1
Version table:
*** 1:1.8.5-1 0
500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Latest RADVD at the time of writing is 2.11, with many updates after 1.8.5:
http://www.litech.org/radvd/
Below are simple steps to build the latest RADVD natively on Raspberry Pi 2.
- Get build essential if it’s not there yet
apt-get install build-essential –y
- Get bison and flex
apt-get install bison flex –y
- Get the source code
http://www.litech.org/radvd/dist/radvd-2.11.tar.gz
NOTE the git cloned version misses a few configuration files so please use the tar ball.
git clone https://github.com/reubenhwk/radvd.git
- Run configure
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc --mandir=/usr/share/man
See configure --help for additional command line arguments.
- Run 'make' and 'make install'.