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Equivalent of GARP in IPv6

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Is there any tool by which i can send an unsolicited Neighbour advertisement for an IPv6 address.

My purpose is to advertise the new MAC address in a High availability setup for a given virtual address in case of a switchover from one Node to another.

posted Apr 22, 2013 by Prem Chaitanya Prathi

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I've been investigating this too. So called Unsolicited Neighbor Advertisements are still required with NDP, see:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2461#section-7.2.6
On Debian based systems you can use ndsend which you can install as follows:

apt-get install vzctl7

Centos should have similar yum installation.

answer Apr 23, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
on ubuntu it is -
yum install vzctl
commented Apr 25, 2013 by Salil Agrawal
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