Subject: neighbor vs neighbour

From: Brent Cook <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:31:34 -0500

I was looking at netstat -6 -s to debug a routing issue, and noticed that the 
output is a little confusing. What's the difference between 'neighbor 
solicits' and 'neighbour solicits'. And yes, I've already hear the 'Atlantic 
Ocean' joke :) Is one TX vs RX?

<snip>
Icmp6:
    3206 ICMP messages received
    0 input ICMP message failed.
    2593 ICMP messages sent
    ICMP input histogram:
        destination unreachable: 39
        echo requests: 63
        group member reductions: 6
        router solicits: 190
        router advertisement: 2669
        neighbour solicits: 10
        neighbour advertisement: 229
        ICMP output histogram:
        destination unreachable: 115
        echo replies: 63
        Icmp6OutRouterAdvertisements: 1895
        neighbor solicits: 354
        neighbor advertisements: 6
</snip>