ndptool(8)

💖 ndptool — the Neighbor Discovery Protocol tool, section 8 of the manual 💖

okay so bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about ndptool, and it's from the System Manager's Manual, section 8, iykyk 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ndptool — the Neighbor Discovery Protocol tool. that's it, that's the whole name, short and iconic 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ndptool -h

ndptool [OPTIONS] COMMAND

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so basically ndptool is a tool that provides a wrapper over Neighbor Discovery Protocol messages. like, it's the cute little front-end situation for all that NDP goodness, and it's genuinely so useful, no cap 🫶

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — prints the help text to the console and then dips. that's it, that's the job ✨
• -v, --verbose — turns the output verbosity up. more words, more detail, more main character energy 💬
• -t type, --msg-type type — specifies the message type. the supported ones are, and listen closely bestie:
  • rs — Router Solicitation.
  • ra — Router Advertisement.
  • ns — Neighbor Solicitation.
  • na — Neighbor Advertisement.
• -i ifname, --ifname ifname — specifies the interface name. tell it which interface you're working with 🧚
• -D dest, --dest dest — specifies the dest address in the IPv6 header, for NS/NA messages.
• -T target, --target target — specifies the target address in the ICMPv6 header, for **NS/NA messages.
• -U, --unsolicited — sends an Unsolicited NA. just putting it out there unprompted, like a true icon 💅

🌈 COMMAND 🌈

• monitor — monitors incoming NDP messages and prints them out. it's giving surveillance but make it cute 👀
• send — sends an NDP message of the specified type. you pick the type, it does the sending, periodt 📨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jiri Pirko is the original author and current maintainer of libndp. absolute legend behaviour, we love to see it 💜

k so that's the whole page bestie, every flag, every value, every command, all of it, none of it skipped, no cap 🙈

this was libndp, dated 16 April 2013 — so yeah, vintage but still slaying, mwah 💖🎀🦋