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31.Dd May 17, 1998
32.Dt NDP 8
33.Os
34.\"
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm ndp
37.Nd control/diagnose IPv6 neighbor discovery protocol
38.\"
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl nt
42.Ar hostname
43.Nm
44.Op Fl nt
45.Fl a | c | p
46.Nm
47.Op Fl nt
48.Fl r
49.Nm
50.Op Fl nt
51.Fl H | P | R
52.Nm
53.Op Fl nt
54.Fl A Ar wait
55.Nm
56.Op Fl nt
57.Fl d Ar hostname
58.Nm
59.Op Fl nt
60.Fl f Ar filename
61.Nm
62.Op Fl nt
63.Fl i
64.Ar interface
65.Op Ar flags ...
66.Nm
67.Op Fl nt
68.Fl I Op Ar interface | Li delete
69.Nm
70.Op Fl nt
71.Fl s Ar nodename etheraddr
72.Op Li temp
73.Op Li proxy
74.\"
75.Sh DESCRIPTION
76The
77.Nm
78utility manipulates the address mapping table
79used by the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP).
80.Bl -tag -width Ds
81.It Fl a
82Dump the currently existing NDP entries.
83The following information will be printed:
84.Bl -tag -width NeighborXX
85.It Neighbor
86IPv6 address of the neighbor.
87.It Linklayer Address
88Linklayer address of the neighbor.
89It could be
90.Dq Li (incomplete)
91when the address is not available.
92.It Netif
93Network interface associated with the neighbor cache entry.
94.It Expire
95The time until expiry of the entry.
96The entry could become
97.Dq Li permanent ,
98in which case it will never expire.
99.It S
100State of the neighbor cache entry, as a single letter:
101.Pp
102.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
103.It N
104Nostate
105.It W
106Waitdelete
107.It I
108Incomplete
109.It R
110Reachable
111.It S
112Stale
113.It D
114Delay
115.It P
116Probe
117.It ?\&
118Unknown state (should never happen).
119.El
120.It Flags
121Flags on the neighbor cache entry, in a single letter.
122They are: Router, proxy neighbor advertisement
123.Pq Dq p .
124The field could be followed by a decimal number,
125which means the number of NS probes the node has sent during the current state.
126.El
127.It Fl A Ar wait
128Repeat
129.Fl a
130(dump NDP entries)
131every
132.Ar wait
133seconds.
134.It Fl c
135Erase all the NDP entries.
136.It Fl d
137Delete specified NDP entry.
138.It Fl f
139Parse the file specified by
140.Ar filename .
141.It Fl H
142Harmonize consistency between the routing table and the default router
143list; install the top entry of the list into the kernel routing table.
144.It Fl I
145Shows the default interface used as the default route when
146there is no default router.
147.It Fl I Ar interface
148Specifies the default interface used as the default route when
149there is no default router.
150The
151.Ar interface
152will be used as the default.
153.It Fl I Li delete
154The current default interface will be deleted from the kernel.
155.It Fl i Ar interface Op Ar flags ...
156View ND information for the specified interface.
157If additional arguments
158.Ar flags
159are given,
160.Nm
161sets or clears the specified flags for the interface.
162Each flag should be separated by white spaces or tab characters.
163Possible flags are as follows.
164All of the flags can begin with the
165special character
166.Ql - ,
167which means the flag should be cleared.
168Note that you need
169.Fl -
170before
171.Fl foo
172in this case.
173.\"
174.Pp
175.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
176.It Ic nud
177Turn on or off NUD (Neighbor Unreachability Detection) on the
178interface.
179NUD is usually turned on by default.
180.It Ic accept_rtadv
181Specify whether or not to accept Router Advertisement messages
182received on the
183.Ar interface .
184Note that the kernel does not accept Router Advertisement messages
185unless the
186.Li net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv
187variable is non-0, even if the flag is on.
188This flag is set to 1 by default.
189.It Ic prefer_source
190Prefer addresses on the
191.Ar interface
192as candidates of the source address for outgoing packets.
193The default value of this flag is off.
194For more details about the entire algorithm of source address
195selection, see the
196.Pa IMPLEMENTATION
197file supplied with the KAME kit.
198.El
199.It Fl n
200Do not try to resolve numeric addresses to hostnames.
201.It Fl p
202Show prefix list.
203.It Fl P
204Flush all the entries in the prefix list.
205.It Fl r
206Show default router list.
207.It Fl R
208Flush all the entries in the default router list.
209.It Fl s
210Register an NDP entry for a node.
211The entry will be permanent unless the word
212.Li temp
213is given in the command.
214If the word
215.Li proxy
216is given, this system will act as a proxy NDP server,
217responding to requests for
218.Ar hostname
219even though the host address is not its own.
220.It Fl t
221Print timestamp on each entry,
222making it possible to merge output with
223.Xr tcpdump 8 .
224Most useful when used with
225.Fl A .
226.El
227.\"
228.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
229.Ex -std
230.\"
231.Sh SEE ALSO
232.Xr arp 8
233.\"
234.Sh HISTORY
235The
236.Nm
237utility first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
238.\"
239.\" .Sh BUGS
240.\" (to be written)
241