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]

arpsend(8), vzctl(8).

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).