NAME¶
ndsend - send a Neighbor Advertisement NDP packet
SYNOPSIS¶
ndsend address interface
DESCRIPTION¶
The
ndsend utility is called by
arpsend(8) for IPv6 addresses to
send an unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 multicast packet announcing
a given IPv6 address to all IPv6 nodes as per RFC4861.
OPTIONS¶
- address
- Specify the IPv6 address to be advertised.
- interface
- Specify the network interface to send an advertisement from.
EXIT STATUS¶
ndsend returns 0 upon successful execution. If something goes wrong, it
returns an appropriate error code:
- 1 EXC_USAGE
- Usage error
- 2 EXC_SYSTEM
- System error
EXAMPLES¶
To send a Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 on interface
eth0 with IPv6
address
2001:DB8::1:
ndsend 2001:DB8::1 eth0
SEE ALSO¶
arpsend(8),
vzctl(8).
LICENSE¶
Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was initially written by Thorsten Schifferdecker
<tsd@debian.systs.org> for the
Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).
