From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Friesen Subject: Re: tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements? Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:33:51 -0600 Message-ID: <4D37207F.5070809@genband.com> References: <4D35FB33.1080305@genband.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Martin Volf Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.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