netdev - Re: tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements?

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Message-ID: <4D37207F.5070809@genband.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:33:51 -0600
From:	Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>
To:	Martin Volf <martin.volf.42@...il.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: tool to send unsolicited neighbour advertisements?

On 01/19/2011 03:42 AM, Martin Volf wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 21:42, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.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

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