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== NAME ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">ndsend &minus;
sends an unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 multicast
packet.</p>

== SYNOPSIS ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">ndsend
<i>address interface</i></p>

== DESCRIPTION ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The
<b>ndsend</b> utility is called by [[Man/arpsend.8|<b>arpsend</b>(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.</p>

== OPTIONS ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i>address</i></p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Specify the IPv6 address to be
advertised.</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%;"><i>interface</i></p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Specify the network interface
to send an advertisement from.</p>

== DIAGNOSTICS ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>ndsend</b>
returns 0 upon successful execution. If something goes
wrong, it returns an appropriate error code. <br>
1 EXC_USAGE</p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">Usage error</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%;">2 EXC_SYSTEM</p>

<p style="margin-left:22%;">System error</p>

== EXAMPLES ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">To send a
Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 on interface <b>eth0</b> with
IPv6 address <b>2001:DB8::1</b>:</p>

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><tt>ndsend
2001:DB8::1 eth0</tt></p>

== SEE ALSO ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><tt><b>arpsend</b></tt>(8),
[[Man/vzctl.8|<b>vzctl</b>(8)]].</p>

== LICENSE ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Copyright (C)
2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.</p>

== AUTHOR ==

<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">This manual
page was written by Thorsten Schifferdecker
&lt;tsd@debian.systs.org&gt; for the <b>Debian GNU/Linux</b>
system (but may be used by others).</p>
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