(usagi-users 03321) Re: How do I do ARP for IPv6 in USAGI?

That's what I need.

Thanks a lot.

Patrick

--- Sharmila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
> I can only answer the following question.
> 
> >Basically, I want to map the destination machine's
> >IPv6 address (the other side of the network) to its
> >MAC address.  How should I do it?
> 
> 
> You can add the IPv6Address and corresponding MAC
> Address as below:
> 
>   Add neighbors using "ip"
> 
>     ip -6 neigh add <IPv6 address> lladdr
> <link-layer address> dev <device>
>        e.g: (At the prompt) ip -6 neigh add fec0::1
> lladdr 
> 02:01:02:03:04:05 dev eth0
> 
> The following are For your information
> 
>   Displaying neighbors using "ip"
> 
>        ip -6 neigh show
>        fe80::201:23ff:fe45:6789 dev eth0 lladdr
> 00:01:23:45:67:89 router 
> nud reachable
> 
> 
>   Delete neighbors using "ip"
> 
>     ip -6 neigh del <IPv6 address> lladdr
> <link-layer address> dev <device>
>        e.g: ip -6 neigh del fec0::1 lladdr
> 02:01:02:03:04:05 dev eth0
> 
> Hope this would be of help to you.
> 
> Regards,
> Sharmila
> 
> At 04:46 PM 4/20/2005, Patrick Lam wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I noticed that the original arp does not work for
> >IPv6.  Then I realized that the arp functionality
> in
> >IPv6 is replaced by neighbor discovery (is this
> >right??).
> >
> >Is neighbor discovery implemented in USAGI yet? 
> Can
> >anyone give me a pointer to find the module(s)
> related
> >to it?
> >
> >Basically, I want to map the destination machine's
> >IPv6 address (the other side of the network) to its
> >MAC address.  How should I do it?
> >
> >Thanks very much in advance.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >_
> 

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