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From: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com>
To: Martin Volf <martin.volf.42@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements?
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:33:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D37207F.5070809@genband.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=g-tSrLMmu4JuuKrze4SJD67CSmbS3aONBw7wV@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/19/2011 03:42 AM, Martin Volf wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 21:42, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@genband.com> wrote:
>> We're transitioning stuff to IPv6 and I've been trying (without much
>> luck) to find a standard tool for sending out unsolicited neighbour
>> advertisements for failover purposes.
>> Is there such a thing?  In ipv4 arping works fine.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> probably http://www.remlab.net/ndisc6/

The ndisc6 tool appears to do neighbour discovery, but doesn't have any
options that I could see to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements.

There are various blackhat-type tools to do this, but I haven't been
able to find a real ipv6 replacement for arping.

Chris

-- 
Chris Friesen
Software Developer
GENBAND
chris.friesen@genband.com
www.genband.com

      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-18 20:42 tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements? Chris Friesen
2011-01-19  9:42 ` Martin Volf
2011-01-19 17:33   ` Chris Friesen [this message]

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