ndsend(8) Containers ndsend(8)

ndsend - send a Neighbor Advertisement NDP packet

ndsend address interface

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.

address
Specify the IPv6 address to be advertised.
interface
Specify the network interface to send an advertisement from.

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

To send a Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 on interface eth0 with IPv6 address 2001:DB8::1: 

   ndsend 2001:DB8::1 eth0

arpsend(8), vzctl(8).

Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.

This manual page was written by Thorsten Schifferdecker <tsd@debian.systs.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
28 Jun 2011 OpenVZ