(usagi-users 04101) Re: Manipulate Neighbor Cache Table

Hi,

V=C3=A9io Nakamura <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm really new here (just signed in the mailing list), and I'm working
> with some implementations of IPv6. I was wondering if anyone here can
> help or simply guide me to further readings regarding the Neighbor
> Discovery implementation for IPv6.
>
> What I'm trying to do is manipulate the Neighbor Table from OS
> (GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32, i686) from ioctl's calls. I thought I found
> out what I needed, but unfortunately I realized that this is SunOS
> specific implementation:
>
> (From http://compute.cnr.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?if_tcp+7)
>
>      SIOCLIFDELND       Delete a neighbor cache entry for  IPv6.
>
>      SIOCLIFGETND       Get a neighbor cache entry for  IPv6.
>
>      SIOCLIFSETND       Set a neighbor cache entry for  IPv6.
>
> (In lifreq structure)
>
> Does anyone knows if there's an GNU/Linux implementation for theses
> ioctl calls for network devices?

I am not aware you can do that for IPv6 neighbor cache. The native
linux interface to interact with the IPv6 neighbor cache is Netlink.

You should take a look at ip/ipneigh.c file in iproute package.

Hope that helps,

Cheers,

a+