[Toybox] IPv6 on arp, arping

[enh]

Android's networking folks tend to just use "ip" for everything these
days. aiui, the "ip neighbour" sub-command works with both IPv4 and
IPv6 so you only have to learn one UI.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Yeongdeok Suh <skyducks111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nowadays, I'm looking through IPv6 supportable commands in Toybox.
> And I found that some commands are works totally different with ipv4.
> Today I gonna talk about arp and arping.
>
> IPv4 arp and arping use broadcasting for discovering network.
> But IPv6 doesn't support broadcasting, and use neighbor discovery instead of
> ICMP and ARP.
>
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1453/ipv6-ref-34.html#scrolltoc
>
> So, these commands are cannot be implemented with additional options.
> In my opinion, toybox needs new command, ndp.
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?format=html&query=ndp(8)
>
> Do you have any plan for ndp?
> And Could you share your opinion for Ipv6 support?
>
>
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