diff --git a/include/net/neighbour.h b/include/net/neighbour.h
index 14e3f017966b2654862decf88ad2835aa338dd22..afb8237b0a8cfee75cd6a0a692e41c392e730073 100644
--- a/include/net/neighbour.h
+++ b/include/net/neighbour.h
@@ -358,6 +358,7 @@ void neigh_for_each(struct neigh_table *tbl,
 		    void (*cb)(struct neighbour *, void *), void *cookie);
 void __neigh_for_each_release(struct neigh_table *tbl,
 			      int (*cb)(struct neighbour *));
+int neigh_xmit(int fam, struct net_device *, const void *, struct sk_buff *);
 void pneigh_for_each(struct neigh_table *tbl,
 		     void (*cb)(struct pneigh_entry *));
 
@@ -511,4 +512,6 @@ static inline void neigh_ha_snapshot(char *dst, const struct neighbour *n,
 		memcpy(dst, n->ha, dev->addr_len);
 	} while (read_seqretry(&n->ha_lock, seq));
 }
+
+
 #endif
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index fe3c6eac5805788be5c1e1bda1375afff24c4126..cffaf00561e7782333710deaa193756d9a3ed06e 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -2391,6 +2391,40 @@ void __neigh_for_each_release(struct neigh_table *tbl,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__neigh_for_each_release);
 
+int neigh_xmit(int family, struct net_device *dev,
+	       const void *addr, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	int err;
+	if (family == AF_PACKET) {
+		err = dev_hard_header(skb, dev, ntohs(skb->protocol),
+				      addr, NULL, skb->len);
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto out_kfree_skb;
+		err = dev_queue_xmit(skb);
+	} else {
+		struct neigh_table *tbl;
+		struct neighbour *neigh;
+
+		err = -ENETDOWN;
+		tbl = neigh_find_table(family);
+		if (!tbl)
+			goto out;
+		neigh = __neigh_lookup_noref(tbl, addr, dev);
+		if (!neigh)
+			neigh = __neigh_create(tbl, addr, dev, false);
+		err = PTR_ERR(neigh);
+		if (IS_ERR(neigh))
+			goto out_kfree_skb;
+		err = neigh->output(neigh, skb);
+	}
+out:
+	return err;
+out_kfree_skb:
+	kfree_skb(skb);
+	goto out;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(neigh_xmit);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 
 static struct neighbour *neigh_get_first(struct seq_file *seq)