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NAME
ndsend − sends an unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 multicast 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.
DIAGNOSTICS
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 written by Thorsten Schifferdecker <tsd@debian.systs.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).