Yes, but that is experimental so it is not mandatory to implement either. So, again I say there is no mandatory way in which a network management application can reliably discover IPv6 networks. This is why the draft recommends making IND mandatory.
-----Original Message----- From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 1:47 To: Pashby, Ronald W CTR NSWCDD-B35 Cc: Jari Arkko; [email protected] Subject: RE: Solicit comments on draft-pashby-ipv6-network-discovery-00.txt On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Pashby, Ronald W CTR NSWCDD-B35 wrote: > These hosts will still have a global address and there is no way to > discover those addresses. I guess node-information queries could be used to get that? > -----Original Message----- > From: Pekka Savola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 1:53 > To: Pashby, Ronald W CTR NSWCDD-B35 > Cc: Jari Arkko; [email protected] > Subject: RE: Solicit comments on > draft-pashby-ipv6-network-discovery-00.txt > > > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Pashby, Ronald W CTR NSWCDD-B35 wrote: >> There are many networks that devices do not through routers. So >> asking the router for their addresses is not sufficient. > > So, in these cases using the link-local all-hosts multicast address > should be fine? > > -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
