debian man page for ndsend

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NAME
       ndsend - send a Neighbor Advertisement NDP packet

SYNOPSIS
       ndsend address interface

DESCRIPTION
       The  ndsend  utility  is  called  by  arpsend(8)  for  IPv6 addresses to send an unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 multicast packet
       announcing a given IPv6 address to all IPv6 nodes as per RFC4861.

OPTIONS
       address
	      Specify the IPv6 address to be advertised.

       interface
	      Specify the network interface to send an advertisement from.

EXIT STATUS
       ndsend returns 0 upon successful execution. If something goes wrong, it returns an appropriate error code:

       1 EXC_USAGE
	      Usage error

       2 EXC_SYSTEM
	      System error

EXAMPLES
       To send a Neighbor Advertisement ICMPv6 on interface eth0 with IPv6 address 2001:DB8::1:

	  ndsend 2001:DB8::1 eth0

SEE ALSO
       arpsend(8), vzctl(8).

LICENSE
       Copyright (C) 2000-2011, Parallels, Inc. Licensed under GNU GPL.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was initially written by Thorsten Schifferdecker <tsd@debian.systs.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may  be  used
       by others).

OpenVZ								    28 Jun 2011 							 ndsend(8)