From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753618Ab1ASReH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:34:07 -0500 Received: from exprod7og110.obsmtp.com ([64.18.2.173]:42930 "EHLO exprod7og110.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405Ab1ASReF (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:34:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4D37207F.5070809@genband.com> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:33:51 -0600 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100430 Fedora/3.0.4-2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Volf CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements? References: <4D35FB33.1080305@genband.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Jan 2011 17:33:53.0004 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A72F2C0:01CBB7FF] X-TM-AS-Product-Ver: SMEX-8.0.0.4160-6.500.1024-17904.000 X-TM-AS-Result: No--14.610000-5.000000-31 X-TM-AS-User-Approved-Sender: No X-TM-AS-User-Blocked-Sender: No Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/19/2011 03:42 AM, Martin Volf wrote: > On 18 January 2011 21:42, Chris Friesen 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