Man/ndsend.8
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NAME[edit]
ndsend − send a Neighbor Advertisement NDP packet
SYNOPSIS[edit]
|
ndsend |
address interface |
DESCRIPTION[edit]
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[edit]
address
Specify the IPv6 address to be advertised.
interface
Specify the network interface to send an advertisement from.
EXIT STATUS[edit]
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[edit]
To send a Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 on interface eth0 with IPv6 address 2001:DB8::1:
ndsend 2001:DB8::1 eth0
SEE ALSO[edit]
LICENSE[edit]
Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.
AUTHOR[edit]
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).
