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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" $FreeBSD$ 31.\" 32.Dd July 9, 2012 33.Dt NDP 8 34.Os 35.\" 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm ndp 38.Nd control/diagnose IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol 39.\" 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm 42.Op Fl nt 43.Ar hostname 44.Nm 45.Op Fl nt 46.Fl a | c | p 47.Nm 48.Op Fl nt 49.Fl r 50.Nm 51.Op Fl nt 52.Fl H | P | R 53.Nm 54.Op Fl nt 55.Fl A Ar wait 56.Nm 57.Op Fl nt 58.Fl d Ar hostname 59.Nm 60.Op Fl nt 61.Fl f Ar filename 62.Nm 63.Op Fl nt 64.Fl i 65.Ar interface 66.Op Ar expressions ... 67.Nm 68.Op Fl nt 69.Fl I Op Ar interface | Li delete 70.Nm 71.Op Fl nt 72.Fl s Ar nodename etheraddr 73.Op Li temp 74.Op Li proxy 75.\" 76.Sh DESCRIPTION 77The 78.Nm 79utility manipulates the address mapping table 80used by the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP). 81.Bl -tag -width indent 82.It Fl a 83Dump the currently existing NDP entries. 84The following information will be printed: 85.Bl -tag -width "Neighbor" 86.It Neighbor 87IPv6 address of the neighbor. 88.It Linklayer Address 89Linklayer address of the neighbor. 90It could be 91.Dq Li (incomplete) 92when the address is not available. 93.It Netif 94Network interface associated with the neighbor cache entry. 95.It Expire 96The time until expiry of the entry. 97The entry could become 98.Dq Li permanent , 99in which case it will never expire. 100.It S 101State of the neighbor cache entry, as a single letter: 102.Pp 103.Bl -tag -width indent -compact 104.It N 105Nostate 106.It W 107Waitdelete 108.It I 109Incomplete 110.It R 111Reachable 112.It S 113Stale 114.It D 115Delay 116.It P 117Probe 118.It ?\& 119Unknown state (should never happen). 120.El 121.It Flags 122Flags on the neighbor cache entry, in a single letter. 123They are: Router, proxy neighbor advertisement 124.Pq Dq p . 125The field could be followed by a decimal number, 126which means the number of NS probes the node has sent during the current state. 127.El 128.It Fl A Ar wait 129Repeat 130.Fl a 131(dump NDP entries) 132every 133.Ar wait 134seconds. 135.It Fl c 136Erase all the NDP entries. 137.It Fl d 138Delete specified NDP entry. 139.It Fl f 140Parse the file specified by 141.Ar filename . 142.It Fl H 143Harmonize consistency between the routing table and the default router 144list; install the top entry of the list into the kernel routing table. 145.It Fl I 146Shows the default interface used as the default route when 147there is no default router. 148.It Fl I Ar interface 149Specifies the default interface used as the default route when 150there is no default router. 151The 152.Ar interface 153will be used as the default. 154.It Fl I Li delete 155The current default interface will be deleted from the kernel. 156.It Fl i Ar interface Op Ar expressions ... 157View ND information for the specified interface. 158If additional arguments 159.Ar expressions 160are given, 161.Nm 162sets or clears the flags or variables for the interface as specified in 163the expression. 164Each expression should be separated by white spaces or tab characters. 165Possible expressions are as follows. 166Some of the expressions can begin with the 167special character 168.Ql - , 169which means the flag specified in the expression should be cleared. 170Note that you need 171.Fl - 172before 173.Fl foo 174in this case. 175.\" 176.Bl -tag -width indent 177.It Ic nud 178Turn on or off NUD (Neighbor Unreachability Detection) on the 179interface. 180NUD is usually turned on by default. 181.It Ic accept_rtadv 182Specify whether or not to accept Router Advertisement messages 183received on the 184.Ar interface . 185This flag is set by 186.Va net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv 187sysctl variable. 188.It Ic auto_linklocal 189Specify whether or not to perform automatic link-local address configuration 190on 191.Ar interface . 192This flag is set by 193.Va net.inet6.ip6.auto_linklocal 194sysctl variable. 195.It Ic disabled 196Disable IPv6 operation on the interface. 197When disabled, the interface discards any IPv6 packets 198received on or being sent to the interface. 199In the sending case, an error of ENETDOWN will be returned to the 200application. 201This flag is typically set automatically in the kernel as a result of 202a certain failure of Duplicate Address Detection. 203If the auto_linklocal per-interface flag is set, automatic link-local 204address configuration is performed again when this flag is cleared. 205.It Ic basereachable Ns Li = Ns Pq Ar number 206Specify the BaseReachbleTimer on the interface in millisecond. 207.It Ic retrans Ns Li = Ns Pq Ar number 208Specify the RetransTimer on the interface in millisecond. 209.It Ic curhlim Ns Li = Ns Pq Ar number 210Specify the Cur Hop Limit on the interface. 211.El 212.It Fl n 213Do not try to resolve numeric addresses to hostnames. 214.It Fl p 215Show prefix list. 216.It Fl P 217Flush all the entries in the prefix list. 218.It Fl r 219Show default router list. 220.It Fl R 221Flush all the entries in the default router list. 222.It Fl s 223Register an NDP entry for a node. 224The entry will be permanent unless the word 225.Li temp 226is given in the command. 227If the word 228.Li proxy 229is given, this system will act as a proxy NDP server, 230responding to requests for 231.Ar hostname 232even though the host address is not its own. 233.It Fl t 234Print timestamp for each entry, 235to make it possible to merge the output with 236.Xr tcpdump 1 . 237Most useful when used with 238.Fl A . 239.El 240.\" 241.Sh EXIT STATUS 242.Ex -std 243.\" 244.Sh SEE ALSO 245.Xr arp 8 246.\" 247.Sh HISTORY 248The 249.Nm 250utility first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit. 251The 252.Fl I Ar auto_linklocal 253flag first appeared in 254.Fx 8.0 . 255.\" 256.\" .Sh BUGS 257.\" (to be written) 258