man ndsend (8): 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

LICENSE

AUTHOR

This manual page was initially written by Thorsten Schifferdecker <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).