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30.\" $FreeBSD$
31.\"
32.Dd May 17, 1998
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 flags ...
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 Ds
82.It Fl a
83Dump the currently existing NDP entries.
84The following information will be printed:
85.Bl -tag -width NeighborXX
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 flags ...
157View ND information for the specified interface.
158If additional arguments
159.Ar flags
160are given,
161.Nm
162sets or clears the specified flags for the interface.
163Each flag should be separated by white spaces or tab characters.
164Possible flags are as follows.
165All of the flags can begin with the
166special character
167.Ql - ,
168which means the flag should be cleared.
169Note that you need
170.Fl -
171before
172.Fl foo
173in this case.
174.\"
175.Pp
176.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact
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 .
185Note that the kernel does not accept Router Advertisement messages
186unless the
187.Li net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv
188variable is non-0, even if the flag is on.
189This flag is set to 1 by default.
190.It Ic prefer_source
191Prefer addresses on the
192.Ar interface
193as candidates of the source address for outgoing packets.
194The default value of this flag is off.
195For more details about the entire algorithm of source address
196selection, see the
197.Pa IMPLEMENTATION
198file supplied with the KAME kit.
199.El
200.It Fl n
201Do not try to resolve numeric addresses to hostnames.
202.It Fl p
203Show prefix list.
204.It Fl P
205Flush all the entries in the prefix list.
206.It Fl r
207Show default router list.
208.It Fl R
209Flush all the entries in the default router list.
210.It Fl s
211Register an NDP entry for a node.
212The entry will be permanent unless the word
213.Li temp
214is given in the command.
215If the word
216.Li proxy
217is given, this system will act as a proxy NDP server,
218responding to requests for
219.Ar hostname
220even though the host address is not its own.
221.It Fl t
222Print timestamp on each entry,
223making it possible to merge output with
224.Xr tcpdump 1 .
225Most useful when used with
226.Fl A .
227.El
228.\"
229.Sh EXIT STATUS
230.Ex -std
231.\"
232.Sh SEE ALSO
233.Xr arp 8
234.\"
235.Sh HISTORY
236The
237.Nm
238utility first appeared in the WIDE Hydrangea IPv6 protocol stack kit.
239.\"
240.\" .Sh BUGS
241.\" (to be written)
242