"ping6 ff02::1 Which should make every single host on a link answer to it."
Answer with it's link-local address, which is probably not the goal. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeroen Massar Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:51 PM To: Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Network Scanning Prasanna Ram Venkatachalam wrote: > Hi all, > > With the evolving IPv6 which will be a mandate soon(as far as i know), > the network discovery is going to be very difficult. Is there any > optimized way proposed so far which can be used with IPv6 for network > discovery?? ping6 ff02::1 Which should make every single host on a link answer to it. For the rest, read the excellent paper by Steven M. Bellovin: http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/v6worms.pdf Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
