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In the IPv4 world, when you want to talk to another computer, you ask which MAC address claims a given IPv4 address, the arp who-has ... tell ... exchange as per tcpdump, and a cache of such mappings from IPv4 to MAC addresses is usually available through arp -an.

What about IPv6 with manual configuration? IPv6 addresses don't show up on arp -an.

How does one computer discover another one over IPv6 within the same prefix?

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Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) is the IPv6 equivalent of the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), and on the Unix flavors I'm most familiar with (mostly BSDs) the ndp(8) command is the IPv6 equivalent of the arp(8) command.

The command-line options for ndp are often the same as for arp, so ndp -an does exactly what you'd expect.

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    And ip -6 neigh under Linux. See this question
    – Dubu
    Commented Jul 19, 2013 at 9:46
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ip -6 neigh show 

Above command is to check arp table for ipv6

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On Windows the equivalent command is

netsh interface ipv6 show neighbors

or in Powershell

Get-NetNeighbour

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