ip neighbour—neighbour/ARP Table Management
The neighbour table objects establish bindings between protocol addresses and link layer addresses for hosts sharing the same physical link. neighbour object entries are organized into tables. The IPv4 neighbour object table is also known as the ARP table. These commands allow you to look at the neighbour table bindings and their properties, to add new neighbour table entries, and to delete old ones.
Abbreviations: neighbour, neighbor, neigh, n
To help with understanding the command flow, here is the output of ip neigh help:
Usage: ip neigh { add | del | change | replace } { ADDR [ lladdr LLADDR ] [ nud { permanent | noarp | stale | reachable } ] | proxy ADDR } [ dev DEV ] ip neigh { show|flush} [ to ...Get Policy Routing Using Linux® now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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