man: ip-neighbour.8: Document all known nud states

Not sure how useful they are in practice, but as 'ip neigh' supports
setting them all, they deserve to be described as well.

While at it, also add a missing layer of indentation to the subordinate
nud state list.

Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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Phil Sutter 2016-03-04 20:07:20 +01:00 committed by Stephen Hemminger
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@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ ip-neighbour \- neighbour/arp tables management.
.ti -8
.IR STATE " := {"
.BR permanent " | " noarp " | " stale " | " reachable " }"
.BR permanent " | " noarp " | " stale " | " reachable " | " none " |"
.BR incomplete " | " delay " | " probe " | " failed " }"
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
@ -86,6 +87,7 @@ the state of the neighbour entry.
is an abbreviation for 'Neighbour Unreachability Detection'.
The state can take one of the following values:
.RS
.TP
.B permanent
the neighbour entry is valid forever and can be only
@ -105,6 +107,24 @@ This option to
.B ip neigh
does not change the neighbour state if it was valid and the address
is not changed by this command.
.TP
.B none
this is a pseudo state used when initially creating a neighbour entry or after
trying to remove it before it becomes free to do so.
.TP
.B incomplete
the neighbour entry has not (yet) been validated/resolved.
.TP
.B delay
neighbor entry validation is currently delayed.
.TP
.B probe
neighbor is being probed.
.TP
.B failed
max number of probes exceeded without success, neighbor validation has
ultimately failed.
.RE
.RE
.TP