Linux utility for sending unsolicited neighbor advertisements

Truman Boyes truman at suspicious.org
Fri Apr 2 00:58:43 CEST 2010


Hi Tore,

I would use scapy6. 

http://hg.natisbad.org/scapy6/summary

Truman

On 30/03/2010, at 6:40 AM, Tore Anderson wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> I'm wondering if any of you know of a utility (for Linux) that can send
> unsolicited neighbor advertisements as described in RFC 2461 section
> 7.2.6?  Something to match the functionality of "arping -U" in IPv4,
> that is.
> 
> Unsolicited neighbor advertisements appears necessary to facilitate
> rapid service address takeover in a HA cluster, but so far I've had no
> luck finding anything that can do it.
> 
> BR,
> -- 
> Tore Anderson
> Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
> Tel: +47 21 54 41 27
> 




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