Hello, Allowing or not allowing a reply to a icmpv6 multicast request message is an interesting question.
Now I am wondering why it is not allowed to answer to such a message in IPv4 (=> http://www.icir.org/fenner/mcast/icmp.html) and allowed in IPv6 ? Thank you, Hoerdt Mickael LSIIT Laboratory On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Stig Venaas wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 11:53:05PM -0500, Suresh Krishnan wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >Now, who can tell if multicast echo request is the primary > > >multicast debugging mechanism or not ?? > > > > Since there is no alternate mechanism, this has become the primary and > > preferred multicast debugging mechanism. If some mechanism is proposed > > which is better and is less liable to be misused, it will become the > > primary mechanism. The KAME project was working on a multicast traceroute > > tool for IPv6 a while ago. I have not personally used it. Probably > > Jinmei can comment further on this. > > > Especially pinging ff02::1 is often used not just for debugging > multicast, but also for other debugging. So I think this is useful, > even if some other multicast debugging mechanisms are introduced. > > Stig > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
