neighbor vs neighbour

neighbor vs neighbour

[Brent Cook]

I was looking at netstat -6 -s to debug a routing issue, and noticed that the 
output is a little confusing. What's the difference between 'neighbor 
solicits' and 'neighbour solicits'. And yes, I've already hear the 'Atlantic 
Ocean' joke :) Is one TX vs RX?

<snip>
Icmp6:
    3206 ICMP messages received
    0 input ICMP message failed.
    2593 ICMP messages sent
    ICMP input histogram:
        destination unreachable: 39
        echo requests: 63
        group member reductions: 6
        router solicits: 190
        router advertisement: 2669
        neighbour solicits: 10
        neighbour advertisement: 229
        ICMP output histogram:
        destination unreachable: 115
        echo replies: 63
        Icmp6OutRouterAdvertisements: 1895
        neighbor solicits: 354
        neighbor advertisements: 6
</snip>

Re: neighbor vs neighbour

[Brent Cook]

On Thursday 25 June 2009 02:31:34 pm Brent Cook wrote:
> I was looking at netstat -6 -s to debug a routing issue, and noticed that
> the output is a little confusing. What's the difference between 'neighbor
> solicits' and 'neighbour solicits'. And yes, I've already hear the
> 'Atlantic Ocean' joke :) Is one TX vs RX?

Just checked the source - neighbour is In, neighbor is Out. Looks like a net-
tools issue, I'll take it off-list.

> <snip>
> Icmp6:
>     3206 ICMP messages received
>     0 input ICMP message failed.
>     2593 ICMP messages sent
>     ICMP input histogram:
>         destination unreachable: 39
>         echo requests: 63
>         group member reductions: 6
>         router solicits: 190
>         router advertisement: 2669
>         neighbour solicits: 10
>         neighbour advertisement: 229
>         ICMP output histogram:
>         destination unreachable: 115
>         echo replies: 63
>         Icmp6OutRouterAdvertisements: 1895
>         neighbor solicits: 354
>         neighbor advertisements: 6
> </snip>
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Re: neighbor vs neighbour

[David Miller]

From: Brent Cook <bcook@bpointsys.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:22:07 -0500

> On Thursday 25 June 2009 02:31:34 pm Brent Cook wrote:
>> I was looking at netstat -6 -s to debug a routing issue, and noticed that
>> the output is a little confusing. What's the difference between 'neighbor
>> solicits' and 'neighbour solicits'. And yes, I've already hear the
>> 'Atlantic Ocean' joke :) Is one TX vs RX?
> 
> Just checked the source - neighbour is In, neighbor is Out. Looks like a net-
> tools issue, I'll take it off-list.

Thanks for investigating this.