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System Administration Guide: IP Services

ProcedureHow to Trace the Activities of the IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Daemon

If you suspect a malfunction of the IPv6 in.ndpd daemon, you can start a log that traces the daemon's activity. This trace is displayed on the standard output until terminated. This trace includes all packet transfers when you start the in.ndpd daemon.

  1. Assume the Primary Administrator role, or become superuser, on the local IPv6 node.

    The Primary Administrator role includes the Primary Administrator profile. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Chapter 2, Working With the Solaris Management Console (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  2. Start a trace of the in.ndpd daemon.


    # /usr/lib/inet/in.ndpd -t

  3. Terminate the trace as needed by typing Control-C.

Example 8–16 Trace of the in.ndpd Daemon

The following output shows the beginning of a trace of in.ndpd.


# /usr/lib/inet/in.ndpd -t
Nov 18 17:27:28 Sending solicitation to  ff02::2 (16 bytes) on hme0
Nov 18 17:27:28         Source LLA: len 6 <08:00:20:b9:4c:54>
Nov 18 17:27:28 Received valid advert from fe80::a00:20ff:fee9:2d27 (88 bytes) on hme0
Nov 18 17:27:28         Max hop limit: 0
Nov 18 17:27:28         Managed address configuration: Not set
Nov 18 17:27:28         Other configuration flag: Not set
Nov 18 17:27:28         Router lifetime: 1800
Nov 18 17:27:28         Reachable timer: 0
Nov 18 17:27:28         Reachable retrans timer: 0
Nov 18 17:27:28         Source LLA: len 6 <08:00:20:e9:2d:27>
Nov 18 17:27:28         Prefix: 2001:08db:3c4d:1::/64
Nov 18 17:27:28                 On link flag:Set
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Auto addrconf flag:Set
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Valid time: 2592000
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Preferred time: 604800
Nov 18 17:27:28         Prefix: 2002:0a00:3010:2::/64
Nov 18 17:27:28                 On link flag:Set
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Auto addrconf flag:Set
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Valid time: 2592000
Nov 18 17:27:28                 Preferred time: 604800