For starters your assumption that you can reach all nodes on a remote
link is broken, because you can't know the subnet mask, therefore the
appropriate directed broadcast. The short answer to your question though
is that the broadcast capability was explicitly removed from IPv6, so
you can't.

Tony

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sreeram Vankadari
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 12:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Directed broadcast in IPv6
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In IPv4 we use directed broadcast address to send packets to
> all the nodes of a
> remote network.  Since there are no broadcast addresses in IPv6,
> how is ths problem solved in IPv6(reaching all nodes of
> remote network)
> As far as I know the only address that can be used to reach
> all the nodes
> of a link is FF02::1, but this cann't be used by the remote
> router as the scope
> of this address is just the link.
>
> Sreeram
>
>
>
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